'Boycott stretch leggings to stop plastics plague'

THE stretchy tight-fitting leggings that are so loved by gym-goers, yummy mummies and homeworkers have been blasted for ruining the environment.

- Helen Barnett

Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant has urged people to boycott the sportswear because the materials are made with plastic that ends up in the food chain.

The BBC star, 52, who has his own sustainable fashion line, hit out at designs using vegan leather, polyester, acrylic, nylon and polyamide and Lycra, which are plastics made from oil, saying: "We all lived perfectly happily without them until big juicy bums came into fashion."