Expensive, Trendy Yoga Clothing
Perhaps I notice this more living in Los Angeles, but what is up with all the over-priced yoga wear?
Why on earth should anyone have to pay $100 for a pair of what are essentially workout pants?
And why do all expensive yoga pants these days use this clingy, stretchy material that is designed to fit tightly around the butt and leave nothing to the imagination?
I’m not just talking about tight in the way that spandex bike pants are tight. There is something about this new material that is so tight, and yet so gauzy, that it will literally stretch around every small butt dimple you have.
I watched in horror as a middle-aged woman was trying on a pair of bright pink yoga koolats (excuse me, these things are now called “gauchos”) at a yoga studio recently. Every single aspect of her somewhat sagging, dimply ass showed through these pants. And yet there were all these women around her cooing about how great she looked.
In a conversation about what sorts of underwear to wear with these clingy clothes, another yogini confessed to me that she just goes commando (no panties) in yoga class. Certainly, you have that option, wearing an uncomfortable thong, or showing off panty lines with these new yoga fashions.
Which is why I prefer to wear a basic pair of workout pants when I’m doing yoga. I don’t want every dimple in my ass showing, I don’t want to go commando, and I certainly do not like wearing thong underwear when I am moving my body in such a way that I could end up slicing myself in half with my razor thin undergarments. So underwear lines it is for me, and to hell with being fashionable on the mat.
The commando yogini and I came up with a new term to describe being comfortable but not fashionable. It is called “frumpterable.” Thus I choose to be happy, and frumpterable, in my yoga wear.
Actually that’s pretty funny! I spoofed Men’s Yoga wear but couldn’t think of anything that funny about Women’s Yoga wear. Got to link this post somewhere on the YogaDawg site.
Good post:)
Shorts and a tank from Wally’s: 11 bucks. Shorts and a tank from prAna.com: 61 bucks. You make the call!
“Frumpterable” is genius, by the way.
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title ph. Thanks for informative article
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HELLOOO. Yoga’s for RICH PEOPLE!
I totally understand the overpriced clothing for Yoga. I also have noticed too much happy, normal prints on shirts.
I did recently find a new line of Yoga tshirts at yogatshirts.com. They have really original prints and nicer normal
prints I haven’t seen before. Hope you like them as much as I do.