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.

Oh and my ass looks fooking amazing in Lycra, why WOULDNT I show it off

Maybe she's on the pull in there mauve

I assume LudaMusser 's comment was meant as a parody.

Years ago I remember watching an old style program (can't remember which one) and the woman being made-over only wore sports wear (most of it worn and washed to death). The presenter identified it was because the woman didn't feel at all confident with "fashion" or even just "normal clothes" so sports wear (mainly unbranded jogging bottoms, t-shirts, hoodies and trainers) were a "safe" option.

@poolsofsunshine It is hard to tell? You get all sorts of uppity people here.

I like to drop off DS at nursery in gym clothes. Means I don't have to fanny around trying to glam up like it's some sort of competition like some of the other mums do. Wash, ponytail, gym clothes. Job done.
No one questions that you look like a scraggly mess because its assumed you will hit the gym afterwards.
Que me going home, sipping tea, eating chocolate and then doing my home workout if I can be arsed.
I usually can't be arsed ....

Gym wear is comfy and casual, I would have no problem doing that.

A certain type of person wears gym clothing out and about i.e common people, chavs, criminals, the great unwashed

If you walk around places like Chelsea, Richmond, Hampstead, Highgate - sweaty Betty leggings are like a uniform. I'm not quite sure those in their £2m houses would fit any of your categories!

In the recent drama The Split (series 2), donna air’s character had amazing comfy and stylish clothes, including gym wear. That whole show is good wardrobe / house porn!

I am wondering what time machine OP jumped out of. Hasn't ActiveWear been very fashionable for at least 5 yrs?

A certain type of person wears gym clothing out and about i.e common people, chavs, criminals, the great unwashed

Get the fuck outta here

Don’t think the character was shown getting any exercise, the clothes were for school run/lounging/wfh etc.

What are you supposed to wear to soft play if not active wear

I've saw two women in dressing gowns and slippers in Asda a while ago.

Gym leggings would be a step up for them.

I love wearing exercise gear just to go to the shops. Why? Because it is comfy, doesn't look scruffy and people might think I have my shit together and been working out (I haven't worked out in about 10 years).

Who the fuck dresses up to go to Asda?

Came on to post the video but it’s already arrived of course!

Gym wear is comfortable to wear
Round the house. I think you are being U.

Cleaning and running round the shops etc is exercise of sorts. Cleaning properly and doing cat litter trays,
Washing, ironing, putting it all away. Work out of sorts in itself if you see how many steps you can do.

I can do 20k in a day doing just this in a three bed terrace.

Around here there are lots of women going around wearing gym gear (leggings, tight tops, layers, trainers) and very Much doubt’d be classed as the great unwashed in their spotless 80K cars with film star hair quality and the rest if it. I’d say maybe half of them would go to the gym but the other half wear it because it is fashionable and, let’s call a spade a spade, those clothes suck you in and lift you up where it’s needed.

I personally don’t like the idea plus wearing all that plastic can’t be healthy in my book.

My arse looks amazing even wearing Loose jogging bottoms and I still wouldn’t go about wearing stuff like this.

Each to their own, I don’t care what everyone else is wearing or if they look good in it or not. I personally would only wear gym stuff when working out, cycling or running and jogging bottoms when cleaning or doing diy.

What about wearing non-active wear for exercising?

I saw a woman running today, wearing leggings and a black lacey bra 😮 not a very supportive one

So many questions here, OP.

YADNBU about sports wear in any context other than sport (though the very word 'sport' reminds me of all the great hulking hockey-playing girls at school).

I dunno about dressing up for Asda as I don't have one nearby, but I do look presentable for Waitrose.

While you are completely reasonable, OP, I do wonder why you possess so many pairs of trainers. This is worrying. They, too, belong in a gymnasium.

It's not those awful web things that keeps popping up on Facebook is it?

YABU I'm a PT and it's literally all I wear.

As I walk around the streets nowadays I do find myself wondering “when did it become OK to go out shopping in skin tight leggings with nothing else covering your arse?” I actually don’t mean that in the normal rhetorical way of “THESE PEOPLE ARE WRONG AND IT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT OK AT ALL!” but in the literal sense “what date did that happen?”. I’m sure when I started posting on MN ten years ago the consensus would have been that this was not OK unless you were literally running, and maybe not even then, but now it’s absolutely fine, and I can’t quite work out when it changed.

But to follow up with another rhetorical question meant literally “where have you been OP, that you haven’t noticed that change?” Actually I think you answered that - you just don’t really notice that sort of thing so the change passed you by. I do look at other women’s clothes because I’m really interested in the subject so it’s a change that fascinated me.