Last week it was avocado toast. This week it’s yoga pants.
The casual chic active wear lifestyle, spearheaded by millennials on Instagram, and quickly and beautifully taken up by women of all ages everywhere, has come under fire.
Over the weekend, Rhode Island resident Alan Sorrentino wrote to the newspaper Barrington Times complaining about the trend of women wearing yoga pants when they’re not actually… umm… doing yoga. They might be shopping, or going to the movies, or socialising or (heaven forbid) brunching in them instead.
The man was outraged.
The absolute worst thing to ever happen in women [sic] fashion is the recent development of yoga pants as daily wear outside the yoga studio.
“From casual to formal, weddings, funerals, shopping, and even for the workplace, yoga pants are everywhere on women of all ages, usually paired with a blousy top and a pony tail hairdo. What a disaster!”
“Like the mini-skirt, yoga pants can be adorable on children and young women who have the benefit of nature’s blessing of youth.
“A nice pair of tailored slacks, jeans, or anything else would be better than those stinky, tacky, ridiculous looking yoga pants. They do nothing to compliment a women over 20 years old. In fact, the look is bad. Do yourself a favor, grow up and stop wearing them in public.”
“What’s next? Wearing a ‘Speedo’ to the supermarket? Imagine if men did that. Yuck! To all yoga pant wearers, I struggle with my own physicality as I age. I don’t want to struggle with yours.”
This man’s comments about a seemingly innocuous item of clothing (just like another man’s comments about a seemingly innocuous food stuff smashed avocado toast) hit a nerve with a particular group who thought their personal habits were not hurting anyone. Women who love active wear. In response teems of formerly mild mannered yoga-wearing women took to the streets in protest.
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Ummm ... I thought this was actually a long standing debate: are leggings pants?
I do believe the context of the 'avocado toast' article was that younger people tend to throw money around on expensive 'wants' a lot of the time, like eating out at extravagant cafes for example. When you add up the cost of eating out/take away, that younger people do several times a week, it really is a significant amount of money that could be put aside for future investments such as a deposit for their first home.