Gym wear as outdoor wear?

[LycraLovingLass]

My friend just bought gym leggings for wearing round Asda, I am horrified Gym wear is for working out, not wearing out surely?

Yes petty thread but its lockdown and I am bored so ...

YABU activewear is acceptable as every day clothes.

YANBU gym leggings need to stay in the gym only.

Also, I highly doubt she bought them just for going around asda. How long does she spend in there that she need specific leggings to do so?

I work (or used to pre lockdown!) in an office so I’m in business attire all week. On the weekends I wear leggings and hoodies and runners. Unless I’m meeting friends or going for lunch. But for around the house, shopping etc i wear it. Usually grey or black leggings and a nice oversized hoodie. It’s comfortable!!

I have tonnes of gym clothes and I actively avoid exercise

Gym leggings are so comfy, I wear them around the house with a baggy tshirt, then I can throw on a hoody and go outside if I need to.

I don't actually care what she wears, some if you seem to think I am about to lock her in until she changes.

She mentioned that she can't wear her new gym leggings for asda because they show her cellulite.

I said well would you wear them for asda anyway? ( it had never occurred to me that wearing gym wear in general outside of exercising was a thing).

She laughed and said yes that's what she bought them for.

She thinks I am weird, I thought she was weird so I brought it here for the general consensus.

Currently in the queue for home bargins... in my gym leggings

I live in 'gym' wear- judge away! I have even been known to team a pair of Sweaty Betty leggings with a pair of Uggs, topped with an Adidas vest and leather jacket...

And that's just for Asda...

This is the perfect time to experiment with looking a wazzock OP! Try it, you might like it

Unless your friend is hovering round Asda then it does count as exercise. It adds loads of steps to my daily total

When I had the body for it, I basically lived in gym leggings and cropped tops like I might be dashing off for a workout at any minute. I’m a wobbly mum now though 😩

I do sometimes stop off at the shops on my way home from yoga. I do feel self-conscious when it’s too warm for a coat but not self-conscious enough to go home and change and go back out again.
I am weirded out by the concept of buying clothes special to wear to the supermarket.

It’s fine for Asda.
Waitrose.....not so much.

Joking. I wear gym gear everywhere. Ok, back in pre corona times if I was “going into town” shopping I wouldn’t. But supermarket shopping is fine.

Gobsmacked you've never seen people wear leisure wear outside of the gym op. In fact I find it quite bizarre

Well, I have lost 4 stone, and my gym clothes are the only things that currently fit (also cannot try clothes on in shops or return them right now), so wearing gym clothes "out" it is then...

I love wearing active wear clothes. Usually if I wear it at the supermarket it's post excercise (after yoga class or a walk) but it's comfortable clothing to wear at home too

I've been wearing mine every day. They are so comfortable!

My friend lives in a grey, baggy tracksuit - for home, Asda, dogwalks. Much rather see people in active wear! - she is very pretty though and can pull anything off!

People of Walmart springs to mind.

www.peopleofwalmart.com/

I love active wear and live in the stuff. School run, dog walk, supermarket, even the doctors this week.

I pop my jeans on for town though

I probably have seen people in it, I don't really pay attention to what anyone else is wearing or if I noticed I must have assumed they were going to the gym.

This is the first time I have come across anyone buying active wear specifically without the intention of working out and d8dnt realise it was a thing, I havent really given other peoples clothes enough thought obviously.

BilboBercow I suspect it's something people only do in English speaking countries actually.

• Disclaimer that's probably a sweeping generalisation, but I live in Germany and have honestly never seen anyone in gym wear or jogging trousers (except preschool children) here unless they were very obviously exercising.

I probably have seen people in it, I don't really pay attention to what anyone else is wearing or if I noticed I must have assumed they were going to the gym.

Exactly, nobody notices and if they do nobody cares/thinks anything of it.

I can’t believe this is new to you.

Are you also the kind of weirdo who thinks that trainers are "only for sport"?

Oh no, I have specific trainers for exercise (which I also wouldn't be seen dead in otherwise, they are definitely built for performance not style) and several pairs of trainers for casual wear, that I wear with jeans, shorts, denim dresses, or cotton leggings.

Well you learn something new every day, who knew Asda apparantly has a dress code or you buy clothes specifically to go there..

People still wear pyjamas to Asda round here. Any kind of athleisure would be a massive improvement.

I've never heard of clothes for the supermarket?