![]() Leggings sauntered into our lives in the second half of the 20th century. My office dress code says nothing on the subject, so I decided to ask around. I mean nothing but a thin layer of spandex between your butt and the conference-room chair, supporting you as you talk about synergies. I mean leggings, the kind you wear to yoga or to the couch when you’re hungover. ![]() The waist band digs in, the legs ride up, and, depending on how long in the pelvis you are, the crotch gets more intimate with you than is common on Tuesday afternoons.Īll of this led me to wonder: Is it okay for me, or any woman, to wear these puppies to the office regularly, or what? I don’t mean the leggings that are made to look like dress pants-though that’s basically all women’s dress pants these days, and we’ll get to those later. Sitting for that long is not comfortable in regular pants. ![]() Working in leggings is approximately 400 times more comfortable than working in literally any other garment. But I would argue that tights are better than pants. That’s not an uncommon view in America’s cubicle farms. In fact, when I told my colleagues I was working on this article, several of them came to my desk, in their traditional slacks, and registered their complaints. Occasionally, some mayor or other VIP stops by. Most everyone at my office is nicely dressed, from the occasional TV-ready suit-wearer to our fashion-conscious female editors. Leisurely, but athletic: This is how Clarendonians live. Their barre-weary haunches have been compressed by elite performance mesh. Whenever I see adult humans out and about, they are wearing leggings. Normally, I only wear leggings in the culturally appropriate setting of Clarendon, the Washington, D.C., suburb where I live. My computer seemed to run more quickly my sources were more responsive the PR people were less angry. With nothing but a stretchy band and Nulu(™) fabric holding me in, I felt freer, like I was dancing through my duties, rather than trudging through them encased in polyester and wool. I don’t remember what specific combo of frustration and busyness led me to wear leggings to the office one day recently, but I do remember it felt magical.
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