Another glamourous and soignee exam-marking look today.
(Note the evolving horror that is my bed-head... Stylin'!)
This one involves a sports bra, a Joe Fresh $9 t-shirt and faux-yoga pants from Smart Set.
I also went for a walk this morning, thus the multi-purpose get-up.
Which brings me to the IMPORTANT topic of sweats and yoga wear.
These items, as is cleverly denoted in their monikers, are to be worn in public
ONLY
for sweating and/or doing yoga
(or otherwise exercising).
(What we do at home in them is our own business, right?)
The following is a list of inappropriate public places or occasions for wearing sweats or yoga wear:
EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
If you are leaving the house, for purposes that are other than sweating or doing yoga,
please wear proper clothes.
NOT with flip-flops.
Don't get me started on flip-flops.
Ever wonder why French women are known for their style and chicness?
Ever seen one out in public in sweats or flip-flops?
I rest my case.
I mean, really, ladies, let's all just have a little self-respect.
5 comments:
I disagree my friend YYZ.
I believe one should wear what makes one feel good and sometimes that may mean oven mitts as socks.
To each is own is really my advice :)
PS J agrees with you, but such an urbanite as J would :)
I am sticking to my guns. I have never seen a photo of myself looking god-awful and been comforted by the fact that at least I was comfortable in my hideous outfit.
Life's too short and the world is ugly enough already: the least we can do is try to make it a little more aesthetically-pleasing.
I totally support oven mitts as socks. At home. In private. :)
My mother went into a tailspin when she read this entry: she is planning to wear yoga gear on our flight to Paris. I told her that is fine and quite acceptable (though in my heart I long for the golden age of air travel, when people got dressed up!)-- I also plan on incorporating comfy stuff into my get-up for the overnight to Paris. (Maybe not yoga pants--I just don't have the butt for them and feel squirmily uncomfortable when out in public in them...)
So I guess I should have included long flights as acceptable places to wear yoga gear. Relax, Mum-- you always look great!
I travel a lot. In fact in the last 6 weeks I've done 2 transatlantic flights so I am getting really rather used to it. So here is my advice for YYZ's Mum. I believe in comfort especially on transatlantic trips. If you aren't comfortable you will arrive even more tired than you will already feel and it will be hard to do a good day of shopping.
Here are my tricks
- underwear MUST be comfortable
- trousers MUST be roomy and warm. Yoga pants are perfect.
- NEVER wear a dress or skirt unless you want to freeze
- layer - again, I find the flights are freezing
- comfortable shoes as your feet will swell. I always take my shoes off
- extra pair of socks again I freeze
Now that being said all the above can be nicely co-ordinated so you still look great.
As YYZ says you always look great.
May I add to the excellent list submitted by LHR? I NEVER go on a plane without a HUGE pashmina for snuggling up and feigning sleep(the only one that really works is the first one I ever bought, in Paris, many years ago. A faux pashmina-- I have several hundred of them-- will not work: the silk/cashmere combo is essential for lightweight warmth, a must for air travel.).
I'd also like to point out that I have picked LHR up from trans-Atlantic flights many times and, even when she wears LINEN TROUSERS (!!How the HELL does she pull that off????!!!), she emerges looking rested and elegant. I have no idea how she manages it, but she seems to have mastered that effortlessly elegant thing that seasoned travellers do. Me? I am the hobbit who is continually spilling her drink, dropping her book, elbowing her neighbour, getting up 38 times to pee, rustling and fustling in her way-too-big purse-full-of -stupid-ziploc-bags of contact solution, Tylenol, lip stuff, toothpaste, etc, etc, etc.... I emerge looking like I have just lost the Battle of Waterloo.... Sigh...
I do wear skirts or dresses sometimes; I wear them with (waistbandless) tights or leggings and, if I am wearing shoes with bare feet (think trips to California in June), I bring BIG cozy socks to wear on the plane. I don't mind taking them off to put my shoes on when I go to the 'loo. I know they say never to take your shoes off on the plane, but, like LHR, I do.
All that said, I HAVE worn yoga wear on the plane (then I saw a photo of myself at the airport and thought, "SURELY there must be a better way!" because I look horrendous in yoga wear... ) Still, am seriously considering it for upcoming Paris trip.... Who put Europe so bloody FAR AWAY, anyway? I like flying to New York: I can dress like a human and arrive looking and feeling like same.
Hmm... I feel a blog post coming on....
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