If you have any bit of fat on your thighs, there will be a bulge. Women usually have fat on their thighs. We're women - we're not men. And with leg warmers we are women with warm and comfortable legs. I had to get over the sausage leg obsession. No one is thinking about it as much as you are. I personally love the defeet "Kneekers" - so comfy! Warm legs are strong legs. Tokie