She's In Fashion

Despite the hours I invest in yoga my wardrobe for the classes don't receive the same investment.

I generally prefer to wear yoga pants and an oversized men's t-shirt (the ones you can get from The Gap and on occassions when mum has gone on strike and laundry piles up, those flourescent tops you accquire on holiday as a keep sake that you soon regret afterwards).

I'd say I was generally quite fashion conscious but the idea of exposing my body to the rest of the class (who really don't deserve such punishment) and wearing lycra in extreme heat isn't appealing. Don't get me wrong, I love it on the instructors and those in the front row with toned bodies. It gives me something to work towards a goal, because while I love yoga for the feeling it gives me, I also go to get into shape and within reason, eat what I want.

Sweaty Betty have designed some great stuff for yoga - if a little overpriced, though their regular sales allow for one to pick up some great bargains. I find fashionable yoga tops harder to come by. I want to retain some modesty and thus dislike the shorter tops, I want my skin to breathe so any synthetics are out, thus leaving The Gap and Tourist shops aborad to benefit from my yoga addiction.