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Sweats in Public- yay or nay?
I wear them to day care drop off and feel like a scrub next to all those in business attire and ABUs but maybe it's all in my head. Or, maybe it's not and I should toss on a pair of jeans.
In my defense, I shower before bed after working out so it's not like I'm Pig-Pen.
So, sweats in public, yay or nay, MN?
I don't want to be on MSNBC, yo.
Re: Sweats in Public- yay or nay?
Like elastic waist and legs or yoga pants?
Elastic waist says "crazy mom shut in", yoga pants say "stylish yet comfy, maybe I'm going to work out, you're not sure but you're jealous".
Both. Usually whatever I'm going to work out in after work (so sweats if I'll be wearing shorts later). Sports bra and all underneath that hoody.
I wear yoga pants to early morning grocery shopping trips, late night runs to Target, etc. Heck, even sometimes if errands out during the day include a trip to the doctors with the kiddo, if I know I am just coming home to tidy up and what not.
Maybe I should feel gross? Since having IJC, I have given up feeling bad if I have run out of time to do the full make up and hair routine so a pony tail, cute-ish cotton tee and yoga pants with tennies or flip flops simply has to do sometimes.
Now flannel pjs pants and what not out and about? No ma'am. Not cool.
The only time I wear something approximating sweats outside the house is on my way to and from the gym (and during my workout, obviously).
If I need to stop and get gas or pick up 3-4 things from the grocery store on my way home, I'll reluctantly do it, but I try to avoid that if I can find the time to run those errands separately.
I tend to live in jeans, though, so it's not like I'm dressing up. I'm just very body-conscious, and don't feel comfortable having people see me in workout gear... Heck, I can't even bring myself to wear semi-revealing workout gear - I wear loose knitted capri yoga pants and fairly normal t-shirts (not skin-tight).
This pretty much sums it up for me too.
I wouldn't feel bad, especially if you're going home to work out/going to the gym or going to do house stuff. Or work from home.
I've been picking Sophia up in yoga pants, a sports bra, and t-shirt since I started doing C25k.
I just have this terrible aversion to elastic sweatpants because my mom used to rock them like it was in style to do so and I'm pretty sure it wasn't in style even in the 80's.
Ditto this, except I have no kid to make me feel that way. And I usually don't wear yoga pants out in public because my ghetto booty in them is something I only let me and H see. But I have tons of Pink sweats and I wear them out. I will only really wear my boyfriend fit ones though that are the wide leg ones and wide ankle ones. I have a lot of the campus pant ones which are long and tight ankle, but I really only wear those in the house.
I've just learned I don't give a shiit what people think of me most days. If I know I'm going somewhere where I have to talk to people, like Verizon or on base or something, I'll wear jeans. But If I'm just going shopping it's usually sweats or windpants.
Unless en route to or from the gym, I say nay. I prefer to feel "dressed" in public. I'm not sure why.
If we're going to dinner, I put on jeans. Other than that, I pretty much live in sweats. However, they're typically just black yoga pants and I dress decently in a nice looking t-shirt and at least brush my hair and basic make up.
Silly PJ pants with Homer Simpson all over them and a holy t-shirt? No.
I'm sticking to the sweats then. It's black yoga capris or black basketball-shorts-fabric-type pants. I've seen a few moms in printed PJ pants so I can't be the worst they've seen!
I do shower and look cute/normal when I do pick up on R's swing shifts b/c I don't usually go to the gym those days. Plus, some of the teachers know what I do for work so hopefully they've spread the word that I'm not home eating bon bons and watching soaps in my PJs all day.
True sweat pants? Nay
Yoga pants/running pants/etc? Yay
Yes. Like I give a flying flcuk what these hicks think of me. If I'm not going out to dinner, or to DD's tumbling class, or out to hang at someone's house, bet I'm in whatever I feel like wearing. Today just so happens to be khaki shorts and a Big Ben jersey. Yesterday was nike sweats and a tshirt. I wear whatever's clever and comfortable at the time.
My bff, however, does not even own a pair of sweatpants and would never consider it. She also lives in civilization.
I will wear workout clothes to and from working out, but honestly, and I know I'll get an eyeroll over this, but it's not appropriate for AD Marines to wear any kind of workout clothes for any errands besides PT, and I try to subscribe to that since I want to be an AD Marine. I sometimes fail, but I always try to keep a pair of real pants in my vehicle so that if I need to go somewhere while on base, I can. ETA: I won't stop on base if I don't have real clothes, and I'll only begrudgingly do so off base.
Once though, lol, I was going to go to the movies with my friend and her H on base. He was literally the least motivated Marine I had ever met, and he decided my pants were too workout-esque. They were not, IMHO, but he didn't let me go.
Where the eff do you live, yo? lol. I've seen you say GA but is the base in the middle of nowhere or just the city you rent in?
I see my H's Commander's wife frequently during drop off since their DD is C's age. Does that change anyone's opinion of what I wear to drop off?
Sometimes she's in work out wear too! It's actually how I initially justified to myself that my clothing was acceptable.
Colombia County. It's like they don't even know it's 2012. Almost every day I leave the house I'm baffled at something pointing to this effect. But I'm a northerner, so there's that. Sorry to offend any southerners. But I'm serious. Like this, for example. We can't pay our water bill online or by phone. This is not something I have ever in my life seen before. It's pretty damn inconvenient. It's a 30 minute drive to pay buy debit card. ::eyeroll::
Zero option of even pay by phone!? I'm originally from a pretty rural area on Michigan and I have to say I've never heard of this. At least not regarding current times. Damn.
Whoa. That really sucks.
I don't think I have a pair of sweats. And I wouldn't be caught dead with a sweatshirt on outside of the house. My parents used to do this and it embarrassed the crap out of me.
That being said, I do have workout clothes that I wear if I am going to, or coming from working out. Other than that I usually throw on jeans and a t-shirt before going out side.
Like any sweatshirts at all? I can't even comprehend this. I love my hoodies.
Yeah I agree. Sweatshirts are totally acceptable in almost all scenarios in my daily life. Workout pants of any kind are for going to and from the gym, however. For convenience, I often want to wear my workout pants to work and I just can't bring myself to do it.
I can't handle hoodies, or anything that has a drawstring. And sweatshirts are for the inside only, like pajamas. It's a weird psychological issue with me though, I don't expect everyone to get it. My mom would wear stained sweatshirts without a bra everywhere. She is mentally disabled, but it took us a long time to figure that out. People accused us of being enablers to her "drunkenness"... they called us white trash all the time. But she wasn't drunk, ever, just sick.
Dad would wear sweatpants that were too small for him outside. Ew.
I swear I am not a snob, I dress casually most of the time. But I can't shake those experiences. So I stay away from sweats.
I am not judgy, just don't like them for me.
Whee! That sounds like St. Bob, MO... The only bill I could pay online was the internet bill. We didn't get regular mail service, because we were on a "rural route" and the home was too new to have been added to the route. We didn't even have the option of using debit at most of the utilities. The bills were generally never received with enough time to mail the payment in before the due date, so once a month, I got to do a tour of St. Bob to pay our bills.
So dumb. Felt like I'd stepped back 50-60 years in time while we lived there...
Brandie, I'm sorry you had those horrid experiences. I just want to hug you.