For about half of every week, I wear real, clean, grown up clothes, and may even venture so far as to shovel on a face of makeup.
Those are the days when I'm in work, at a 'do' or in serious danger of bumping into an ex-boyfriend. On the days where I have school runs, play dates, finger painting and trips to the beach ahead of me... I mostly wear my yoga pants. And I don't care what
Eva Mendes has to say about that.
Here are 5 reasons why:
1. The insane comfort factor
If I can no longer get away with any full-on pyjama days (because we HAVE to leave the house at some point to get the kids out, right?), then I will go to the next best thing: yoga pants, tees and runners. They're almost like a second skin.
2. They are actually flattering
I have a few TERRIBLE pairs of tracksuits bottoms that never get to see the light of day, but I don't particularly mind the look of myself in yoga pants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I think my bum and legs look GREAT in them - so there!
3. Parenting = constant workouts
I am on what I like to call, the 'Two Small Children Workout Program'. It involves repeat kettle bell work (carrying a toddler up and down the stairs for things I keep forgetting), four hundred squats per day (picking shit up off the floor), and constant weight training (lifting kids and buggies in and out of cars, onto swings, down from dangerous wall-climbing escapades). I NEED to be in fitness wear for all of that!
4. Because parenting is messy
If either of my kids feel like chucking their spaghetti hoops at me during Yoga Pants Day, I don't feel TOO sad about it. I mean, I'd obviously rather they ate their dinner (fml), but if they must chuck them at their long-suffering mother, then they may as well do it while I'm not wearing something I actually like.
5. No heels required
There is a possibility that I will never wear heels again. I stopped when amaaazing cankles appeared during my first pregnancy and I don't think I've really missed them since. Any outfit that specifically denounces the wearing of heels is AOK by me.
