Yoga Pants

Today after Yoga I went to coffee with my friends Sara and Michelle.  Since we had all been in Yoga together it seemed perfectly fine to be in public for coffee together in our Yoga pants.  Michelle and Sara looked better than I did post Yoga.  Perhaps I should have put some make up on to go to class, but since I tend not to look at my face in the mirror because I am busy trying to judge if my shoulders are down and back or my leg is straight I skip it.

After whiling the rest of the morning away discussing important issues like drivers ed, we finally broke up since the lunch crowd was showing up in real clothes, except for one friend who was in her tennis clothes.

I was starting to get self-conscious about being out so late in Yoga clothes, no make up, hair, which had not been washed and had been hanging upside down for a while so it stuck into an odd-do.  What I really wanted was an sign on my chest that read, “Yes, I actually was at Yoga, I’m not just slumming it.”

Apparently I am not the only person her feels this way because when I went to pick up after school today a friend told me she was not getting out of her car because she was still in her Yoga pants.  I asked if it was because she was wearing Luluemon see through Yoga pants and she said, no.  This particular friend is tall, thin, incredibly athletic and looks great in a potato sack so if she was feeling uncomfortable being in her Yoga pants at 3:30 then I felt perfectly justified that I felt that way just hours before.

Why do the tennis people not feel uncomfortable being out in their little skirts, while Yoga pant wearing elicits some sort of guilt?  I actually did Yoga today and yes it is not quite the work out tennis is, but my Yoga pants are the same thing I will wear to work out with my trainer tomorrow and that is an hugely butt busting activity much more strenuous than a doubles tennis game.

Since I don’t have a sign to wear announcing why I am dressed the way I am I will declare it here for good.  If you see me and I have Yoga pants on I recently must have been exercising.  Don’t think I am slumming it; I would have my jeans on if I was doing that.  If I am really dressed up I had a meeting with someone who does not know me well or someone I was asking for money.  Now you know you may want to avoid me if you see me coming in anything but jeans, I am either smelly or am going to ask you for money.