Ladies. Can someone explain the yoga pants to me??
I am not a yoga pant mom. I know, I know. They're all the rage. Apparently they're extremely comfortable and they make your ass look good and I live in Colorado so I think that makes them almost more acceptable. But can I be honest? I totally don't get it. At all.
I am a sweatpant mom. And since we're being honest, you could remove the "mom" bit from the title entirely because none of this is new. I'm just a sweatpant kind of girl. Always have been. It seems I always will be.
Anyway, I had one of those days today. I know you all know those days. The ones where you wake up and you're tired but you have a massive day in front of you and your to-do list is a mile long so you haul your ass out of bed and handle it? That kind of day. But then we added in some crappy weather where it was dumping rain or sleet or snow or God knows what out of the sky like it was considering being winter again and I got home from hauling stuff out of a dust and sawdust covered garage and had to take a shower mid day because YUCK.
So with it being mid day, having accomplished a solid chunk of my to-do, and with an entire day of computer work and contractors ahead of me, I had to seriously consider what to wear on a work from home day mixed with human interaction day. Now, I have to admit, I generally like getting dressed in the morning. This may be because (as you witnessed from my amazing life fail vlog on Monday), I allow myself to wear sweatpants and sometimes I lounge in them for extended periods of time in the morning, and so therefore I feed the craving, if you will - and for me, sweatpants are a craving.
You see, sweatpants are like a good home cooked meal in my book. They have always meant home to me. They're what I put on after long days at horse shows in 100+ temperatures, before crawling into bed in order to sleep just long enough to do it all over again. They're my international sign for "You may now relax."
So this morning, with aching knees and mild - ok extreme - bitterness for the fact that it was, indeed, dumping white stuff from the sky, all I wanted was a baggy pair of sweatpants that didn't make me feel claustrophobic, and that, quite frankly, didn't have to be pulled over my ankles because that's the way skinny jeans work.... And I own a lot of skinny jeans.
When I finally put my sweatpants on this evening, I immediately regretted the fact that I didn't just put the damn things on at noon today (though I did opt for equally baggy boyfriend jeans which I later realized are no cuter than sweatpants because they are way too big on me). I had that "ahhhhhh" moment when I put on my sweatpants . They're just so comfortable!! But ladies, then it hit me. Most people now opt for YOGA PANTS.
Seriosuly. Spandex. Most women opt for straight spandex. Can you guys explain this?! I guess I can understand that they allow optimal movement with little constriction, but let's be serious.... How flexible are you? Really... I'm going to break it down.
Yoga pants: They're tight. Sure, they may make your ass look good, but they also do a decent job at showing off your crotch. I don't get that. Also, what kind of underwear do you wear with those things? I know, I know. Thong, right?! Or do you guys rock the no underwear thing? Cause what happens if your yoga pants get a little see through or, God forbid, rip?! I guess then you've successfully ripped your yoga pants proving they either A) aren't doing their job or B) you're not actually working out in them or C) you buy your yoga pants way too tight, and at that point who cares, you're for sure going go home and eatting ice cream straight out of the container. Period.
Sweatpants: They fit before, after and during the ice cream eating (because life gives us so many more reasons to eat ice cream than splitting yoga pants). I'm not sure any further arguments need to be made, but just in case... They're a lot warmer than yoga pants, they're really comfortable, you can also work out in them if you choose to do so, but if you don't, and you instead choose to walk around town for the entire day or run errands in your sweatpants, people won't necessarily think you just came from some kind of super intense hot yoga class where you stretched, they may just simply think that you woke up, were super lazy, decided to not put clothes on, and instead put your shoes on to run errands in your public friendly pajamas. Ok. I admit that isn't an argument for sweatpants, but at least you're not splitting them or giving people X-ray vision.
I happen to be the sweatpant variety. Yup. That's me. I'd also like to note that every night that I put on my public friendly pajamas my first thought is "I love sweatpants. I might wear them all day tomorrow. Wait, can I wear them all day tomorrow? Can I just work in sweatpants?!" And then I wake up and generally all of that goes in the trash and I choose to adult the next day by putting skinny jeans on. Again. Because I'm an adult, damn it, and I have a real life job, and it kind of matters what I look like at that job (I don't know that a whole lot of people would hire a designer to remodel or style their home if they showed up in camo sweatpants on a regular basis). Guess it's a good thing that my skinny jeans are a large percentage spandex and therefore are almost as comfortable as yoga pants. And as a bonus, they're much less see through. At least I like to think so.
Heres to adulting. Aka wearing pants. Every day.