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Man Told Women Not To Wear Yoga Pants, So They Paraded Outside His House
https://www.buzzfeed.com/fionaruthe...paraded-outs?utm_term=.cvBZ5ENJao#.tuvk6WMwKN
Jamie Burke, a mother of two who lives in Rhode Island in the US, opened her local newspaper last week to find a letter to the editor asking women to stop wearing yoga pants because they are not flattering.
In response to the letter Burke organised a peaceful yoga pants parade in Barrington with the support of friends and family.
“Let’s take a leisurely walk through the neighborhood wearing our most comfortable pair of yoga pants,” a note on the event’s Facebook page said.
“This is not a hateful protest against Alan. This a wonderful group of people celebrating our bodies and our right to cover them however we see fit.”
Burke said local people donated enough toiletries to “fill a bus” to domestic violence charities, as well as several hundred dollars in cash donations.
The parade naturally ended with yoga. “Personally it was a perfect way to bring it all full circle,” she said.
Here is the letter in full:
To the editor:
The absolute worst thing to ever happen in women fashion is the recent development of yoga pants as daily wear outside the yoga studio.
Not since the mini-skirt has there been something worn by so many women who should never have it on in the first place.
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. However, on mature, adult women there is something bizarre and disturbing about the appearance they make in public. Maybe it’s the unforgiving perspective they provide, inappropriate for general consumption, TMI, or the spector of someone coping poorly with their weight or advancing age that makes yoga pants so weird in public.
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.
Besides, why would you want to wear something that’s seen on dozens of other women every day, everywhere? I thought women didn’t like doing that for obvious reasons. Yoga pants belong in the yoga studio. 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. Thanks,
Alan Sorrentino
https://www.buzzfeed.com/fionaruthe...paraded-outs?utm_term=.cvBZ5ENJao#.tuvk6WMwKN
Jamie Burke, a mother of two who lives in Rhode Island in the US, opened her local newspaper last week to find a letter to the editor asking women to stop wearing yoga pants because they are not flattering.
In response to the letter Burke organised a peaceful yoga pants parade in Barrington with the support of friends and family.
“Let’s take a leisurely walk through the neighborhood wearing our most comfortable pair of yoga pants,” a note on the event’s Facebook page said.
“This is not a hateful protest against Alan. This a wonderful group of people celebrating our bodies and our right to cover them however we see fit.”
Burke said local people donated enough toiletries to “fill a bus” to domestic violence charities, as well as several hundred dollars in cash donations.
The parade naturally ended with yoga. “Personally it was a perfect way to bring it all full circle,” she said.
Here is the letter in full:
To the editor:
The absolute worst thing to ever happen in women fashion is the recent development of yoga pants as daily wear outside the yoga studio.
Not since the mini-skirt has there been something worn by so many women who should never have it on in the first place.
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. However, on mature, adult women there is something bizarre and disturbing about the appearance they make in public. Maybe it’s the unforgiving perspective they provide, inappropriate for general consumption, TMI, or the spector of someone coping poorly with their weight or advancing age that makes yoga pants so weird in public.
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.
Besides, why would you want to wear something that’s seen on dozens of other women every day, everywhere? I thought women didn’t like doing that for obvious reasons. Yoga pants belong in the yoga studio. 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. Thanks,
Alan Sorrentino