Butter Motion Leggings

The collection holds fourteen colourways under the Butter name. The quiet end runs through Ink Butter Leggings, Cocoa Butter Leggings, LIMITED EDITION: Truffle Butter Leggings and Sage Butter Leggings, which read as neutrals and sit under almost any top. The brighter end runs through Chilli Butter Leggings, Zest Butter Leggings, Sugar Spice Butter Leggings and Whipped Butter Leggings. The patterned group is the smallest, and it covers The Café Polka Butter Leggings, The Vixen Butter Leggings and LIMITED EDITION: The Huntress Butter Leggings.

Two pairs carry the Glow name, Glossed Butter Glow Leggings and Mint Butter Glow Leggings. Glow describes the finish rather than a different cut, so choosing between a Glow pair and a standard Butter pair comes down to how much light you want the fabric to catch. Two pairs are marked limited edition, so those colourways are not part of the permanent line up. Wild Butter Leggings rounds out the range.

Choose plain leggings when the leggings are the base of an outfit and printed leggings when the leggings are the piece people look at. A plain pair such as Ink Butter Leggings or Sage Butter Leggings carries a long coat, an oversized knit or a parka without competing with it. A print such as The Vixen Butter Leggings or The Café Polka Butter Leggings reads better with a plain top, and Duck Apparel groups the matching tops and outer layers in its outfit pairings for Duck Apparel pieces, which makes it easier to build an outfit around a print rather than against it.

Leggings do the most work in South Africa between June and August, when winter mornings are cold and a legging under a longer coat is warmer than a loose trouser. Darker colourways such as Ink Butter Leggings and Cocoa Butter Leggings suit that stretch of the year. From September the lighter shades come forward, and Mint Butter Glow Leggings, Zest Butter Leggings and Whipped Butter Leggings sit closer to the shades Duck Apparel gathers in its spring wardrobe edit. In Cape Town and Johannesburg one pair often covers both seasons, because what changes is the layer worn over them.

Start with the colour you already reach for in other trousers, then add a print as a second pair. A first order usually gets more wear from a neutral, and Ink Butter Leggings, Cocoa Butter Leggings and Sage Butter Leggings are the three that pair with the widest range of tops. Shoppers working to a set spend can weigh the leggings against the smaller pieces Duck Apparel lists in its under R500 range before committing. A print such as The Café Polka Butter Leggings then adds variety later without changing anything about the fit.