Posted on 02/20/2018 12:36:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s a new year and I’ve got a new gym membership. I went the other morning. It was 8 degrees outside. And every woman in there was wearing skintight, Saran-wrap-thin yoga pants. Many were dressed in the latest fashion — leggings with patterns of translucent mesh cut out of them, like sporty doilies. “Finally,” these women must have thought, “pants that properly ventilate my outer calves without letting a single molecule of air reach anywhere else below my belly button.”
Don’t get me wrong. I have yoga pants — three pairs. But for some reason none of them cover my ankles, and as I said, it was 8 degrees outside. So I wore sweatpants.
I got on the elliptical. A few women gave me funny looks. Maybe they felt sorry for me, or maybe they were concerned that my loose pants were going to get tangled in the machine’s gears. Men didn’t look at me at all.
At this moment of cultural crisis, when the injustices and indignities of female life have suddenly become news, an important question hit me: Whatever happened to sweatpants?
Remember sweatpants? Women used to wear them, not so long ago. You probably still have a pair, in velour or terry cloth, with the name of a college or sports team emblazoned down the leg.
No one looks good in sweatpants. But that’s not the point. They’re basically just towels with waistbands. They exist for two activities: lounging and exercising — two activities that you used to be able to do without looking like a model in a P90X infomercial.
It’s not good manners for women to tell other women how to dress; that’s the job of male fashion photographers. Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves — a
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Nothing without pictures
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You’re saying guys wearing yoga pants?
I guess I’m out of touch, I have no idea of what yoga pants are.
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This just reeks of the Elite east coast people looking down the nose of the “middle landers” and “middle classers”.
I have no qualm with women wearing yoga pants, it is better than wearing anything that allows rolls of flash to spill out that nobody wants to see.
The only concern with Yoga pants that wasn’t mention much in the article about how the polyester blends used in Yoga Pants don’t breathe very well and this can create a problems for us women.
Most of the article was just them bitching about how they look.
... now allow me to criticize women for not dressing in a way that I prefer and hence making me look bad in comparison.
>>I guess I’m out of touch, I have no idea of what yoga pants are.
Are you male or female?
They also used to wear corsets.
Not true.
As a male of the species I find that yoga pants oscillate wildly between deeply yummy and deeply horrifying. Depending of course on the contents of said yoga pants.
I look totally hot in sweatpants.
Ok, I must be thinking about something different, my yoga pants are loose fitting, my leggings are skin tight!
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