Yoga pants

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Yoga pants

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The market has increased both through the popularity of yoga and because many women wear yoga pants as casual everyday dress. This is part of a long-term "athleisure" trend of increasing informality in dress, threatening sales of traditional jeans.

In the United States, the wearing of yoga pants other than for exercise has aroused controversy, both for school use and when worn by women.[1] Global sales of yoga clothing have all the same grown rapidly, reaching some $31 billion by 2018.[2]

Origins

haṭha yoga were combined with movements from gymnastics, creating a new tradition of postural yoga.[4] By the 1990s, this had become a popular form of exercise across the Western world, especially for women.[5]

Yoga pants made of

antibacterial (Silverescent).[6] Yoga pants increased in popularity, to the point where by 2014 American teenagers preferred them to jeans; the jeans manufacturer Levi Strauss, threatened with "an existential crisis",[6] was obliged to make some of its jeans stretchy.[6] Yoga pants took some years to spread around the world; the first Lululemon store in Europe opened in 2014, in London, England's Covent Garden.[9]

Numerous competitors entered the market, some of them such as Nike, Adidas, and Target also offering specialised fabrics.[6]

Types

Styles and brands of yoga pants are available at a wide range of prices,[10] determined primarily by brand: in 2015, a high-end pair from the specialist retailer Lululemon cost $98, whereas a less well-known brand sold by the general retailer Target cost $20.[5] By 2018, there were over 11,000 types, according to Bloomberg, with a style by Lucas High on sale for as much as $230.[6]

Styles include the traditional boot-cut and flared yoga pants with a flat waistband.[11] Basic yoga pants are black, tight-fitted, boot-cut, flared, and reversible; they are made of a four-way stretch fabric, with a flat elastic waistband at the top. They provide flexibility and comfort, wicking moisture away from the body and helping to keep the wearer cool and comfortable. They may be made from blends of cotton, Lycra spandex, nylon, polyester, wool, or similar light and stretchy synthetic material giving the pants a soft, smooth finish.[12][13]

Usage

Further information: Athleisure
Many members of this yoga class are wearing yoga pants; others wear shorts or tracksuit bottoms.

Yoga pants have migrated from the yoga studio to the

Vancouver Sun, agreed, calling yoga pants with heels and blouse "a fashion faux pas".[20] The Atlantic however suggested, based on a preliminary 2012 study of "enclothed cognition",[a] that wearing active clothing might encourage people to exercise more.[21][22]

The fashion historian Amanda Hallay said that women want to look as if they are running to the gym, whether they are or not.[23] Another fashion historian, Deirdre Clemente, states that athleisure clothing arrived when three trends came together: the technical improvement of fibres to create strong, long-lasting and flexible materials such as spandex; a Western fascination for appearing extremely healthy; and the decline of formality in clothing, allowing yoga clothing to blend into office wear. In Clemente's view, all three of these trends developed slowly throughout the 20th century.[8] Rachel Marlow, writing in Vogue, said that yoga pants had become acceptable wear for women "on the school run, in the line for morning coffee, over a business lunch, or even drinks".[24]

Demand for comfortable active, athletic, sports and casual wear has increased since the turn of the 21st century.

The Denver Post in 2013, called yoga pants the "new jeans".[26] Hollie Shaw, writing in the Financial Post in 2015, talked about the "Lululemon effect"[28] which had replaced jeans with yoga pants and observed that men too were starting to wear them instead of denim.[28]

Social issues

In the United States, the wider adoption of yoga pants proved controversial for schools.

dress codes banning yoga pants for all students, or banning them only for female students.[29][30][31] Bitch magazine argued such bans are largely gendered, focusing on the damage caused by supposed "distraction" of boys by girls in tight clothing;[32] similar complaints caused a ban in Rockport, Massachusetts, that was quickly reversed.[29] In Montana, a 2015 bill supposedly sought to outlaw both yoga pants and leggings,[33] but the representative concerned, David Moore, claimed that this had been a joke.[34]

The tight-fitting nature of yoga pants for adult women has also stirred up discussion. In

demonstrators in tight clothing assembled in front of his house.[36]

In an opinion piece in The New York Times, Honor Jones argued that yoga pants were bad for women, stating that women were wearing yoga pants because of social pressure to be "sexy", and urged women to wear shape-concealing sweatpants instead.[37] Anne Kingston disagreed with Jones, writing in Maclean's in 2018 that a looser style of sweatpants had already re-entered athleisure fashion, and that there were solid practical reasons for tight yoga pants, such as that they make it easier for instructors and students to check their body alignment, reducing the risk of injury.[38]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Compare Embodied cognition.

References

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  2. ^ "Yoga Clothing Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Application (Men, Women, Children), By Distribution Channel (Offline, Online), By Region, And Segment Forecasts, 2019–2025". Grand View Research. September 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2020. Base Year for Estimate: 2018 Report ID: GVR-3-68038-810-7
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  7. ^ Walker, Rob (21 July 2009). "Marketing Pose". The New York Times.
  8. ^ a b Thompson, Derek (28 October 2018). "Everything You Wear Is Athleisure". The Atlantic. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  9. ^ Bearne, Suzanne (20 February 2014). "Lululemon limbers up to open first UK store in Covent Garden". Drapers. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  10. ^ Willgress, lYDIA (9 January 2019). "8 best yoga pants". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07.
  11. ^ Fern, Ashley (27 January 2014). "#DefaultOutfit: The 19 Reasons All Women Worship Yoga Pants". Elite Daily. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  12. ^ Sweeney, Kevin (15 June 2011). "Absorbent Activewear". Good Housekeeping. Archived from the original on 13 Feb 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  13. ^ "The Yoga Pant Problem | The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton (Episode 228)". Science History Institute. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  14. ^ Hahn, Fritz (28 January 2014). "Ink Lounge and Tattoo Bar want to see your yoga pants in the club". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  15. ^ Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (16 March 2011). "To Stretch or Not to Stretch". The New York Times.
  16. ^ Folan, Kerry (15 December 2016). "Yoga pants are comfy. They're also an assault on manners and a nihilistic threat". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
    - Edwards, Jim (4 September 2015). "The long, strange history of Lululemon Athletica Inc, North America's weirdest clothing brand". Business Insider. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  17. ^ Lowensohn, John (20 February 2014). "Sink or sew: how Betabrand turns crazy ideas into real clothing". The Verge.
  18. ^ Kane, Colleen (4 June 2015). "Like it or not, designer yoga pants have become legitimate office wear". Fortune. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  19. ^ Grose, Jessica (3 January 2014). "Workout Wear Friday Is Not a Thing". Slate. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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  22. ^ Wiebe, Jamie (12 December 2013). "Psychology of Lululemon: How Fashion Affects Fitness". The Atlantic. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  23. ^ Ritchie, L. Carol (6 September 2014). "Blue Jeans Losing Their Grip On American Hips". The Two-Way. NPR. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  24. ^ Marlowe, Rachel (7 January 2016). "The 5 Golden Rules of Athleisure: Is It Really Acceptable to Wear Yoga Pants All Day Long?". Vogue. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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  27. ^ "Will yoga pants have jean makers singing the blues?". CBS Money Watch. September 5, 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  28. ^ a b Shaw, Hollie (30 May 2015). "How sweatpants went from 'a sign of defeat' to the new designer fashion trend". Financial Post. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  29. ^ a b Shemkus, Sarah (6 March 2014). "Rockport High School leggings-ban controversy still simmers". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  30. ^ Lestch, Corinne (3 October 2014). "'Distracting' yoga pants banned by officials at North Dakota high school". New York Daily News. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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  33. ^ Culp-Ressler, Tara (11 February 2015). "Proposed Bill Has Everyone Confused About Whether You Can Arrest People For Wearing Yoga Pants". ThinkProgress. Archived from the original on 7 Sep 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  34. ^ Glenza, Jessica (14 February 2015). "Republican in Montana yoga pants obscenity uproar explains: it was a joke". The Guardian.
  35. ^ Murphy, Rosalie (8 July 2014). "Why Your Yoga Class Is So White". The Atlantic. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  36. ^ Waxman, Olivia B. (27 March 2017). "How Leggings Became the Most Controversial Pants". Time.
  37. ^ Jones, Honor (18 February 2018). "Why Yoga Pants are Bad for Women | Whatever happened to sweatpants?". The New York Times. p. SR6.
  38. ^ Kingston, Anne (19 February 2018). "Op-eds about why yoga pants are 'bad for women' are bad for women". Maclean's. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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