Given Up?

 

Have I?

Have I bowed out?

Pulled out?

Backed out?

Copped out?

Ducked out?

 

Have I given up?  Have you?

 

I was reading an online advertisement about a new brand of sweatpants.  The makers claimed them to be the most comfortable, thinnest, stylish brand on the market.

“You (and others) won’t even know they are sweatpants” the ad boasted.

Because “comfortable” and “stylish” are in my wheelhouse, I clicked on the comments to read what others thought.

Comment after comment after comment described adults wearing sweatpants in public as a resignation.

Bailing on looking presentable.  Ditching pride for loose-fitting fleece.  Abandoning all for sweats with PINK blazoned across the ass.

 

I pushed away from the laptop and looked down at my own togs.

Sweats.

Black, loose & swishy.

From October to late April I pull on a pair of sweats nearly every day.

Oh I have jeans.  And Dockers too (because I am over 40 thus required by law).  But I can count on my fingers the number of times they are worn during the year.

I wonder if I have washed my hands of fashion?

Do I still look acceptable in public?

 

Or have I surrendered?

 

Mostly I blame multiple sclerosis for my fashion choice.

The lighter to wear–the easier to move kinda thing.

Plus no buttons & zippers to fumble over when the bladder screams for release.

Just pull down & sit.  Ahh.

What are your thoughts?  Do you share my preference for the loose & flappy?

I haven’t given up.  Neither have you.  I’m hoping we’re just choosing function over style.

Function can be a fine line, you know…and that fine line is made with an elastic waistband!