Over the last several years, when I have tried to buy sweatpants for exercise or loafing or both, I have found that they don’t actually make sweatpants for women anymore. The designs have changed, towards thinner fabrics, and no pockets. You can have yoga pants (in a variety of lengths) or shorts, and NEVER pockets. Apparently it was decided, though I didn’t get the memo, that pockets on exercise pants look dorky.
Okay, fine. But…
Going to the gym? Once you put your stuff in your locker, you still need someplace to put your key. Around your neck? Dorky. And I hope you don’t mind carrying your water bottle and iPod and book. Don’t want to or don’t have enough hands? You need a fanny pack. Dorky! Fanny packs are too dorky? Carry your nice purse. Ultra dorky! And dumb.
Going jogging? Maybe you don’t mind carrying your water, but what about your keys and ID? You could put them in a regular bag, but it would bounce and flap. Dorky. You’re back to a fanny pack, dork.
So it appears that, without pockets in exercise clothes, we still look like dorks, but the manufacturers have the added bonus of getting to sell us overpriced fanny/waist/hip packs and/or those iPod carriers that strap to your arm. Have we really netted less dorkiness?
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I’m wearing a pair of black sweatpants with pockets I got at K-Mart a couple of years ago. They still make them, they just aren’t as easy to find as they used to be.
(and if you’re wondering where the hell I came from, I’m an occasional commentor over at Thud’s who wandered over because the internet is boring tonight and I’m clicking random things on people’s blogrolls.)