Why do people get so riled up about tennnis clothes?

[Anonymous]

17:26 Advertisement, indeed. Shallow, indeed. OP came here fishing.

[Anonymous]

Don't let me stop you from looking ridiculous. After all you just need to send that message, don't you? Maybe I should wear my ivy league degrees, my bank accounts, investment statements, and real estate ownership deeds on my shirts. Far be it from me to humble in D.C.. Don't be an asshole OP, there are enough of them here. Not excluding the Hitler poster.

[Anonymous]

the only time I give a rat's ass is when this one woman at my church shows up at sunday morning mass in her tennis clothes, lugging her tennis racket. My church is a pretty formal church in Georgetown - ALL the men wear jackets and ties, even in the summer - and I think it's inappropriate. (I would have no problem with her changing clothes in the parish hall next door and stowing her stuff there.) generally if I'm running errands on a Saturday or Sunday, I'm probably wearing some form of workout-type clothes because they're comfortable, and because I probably have the gym or a yoga class on the schedule that day. (or a playground visit with my daughter.) I don't play tennis so I don't wear tennis clothes, but the basic idea is the same. What are we supposed to wear for grocery shopping or other stupid errands where nobody *should* care what you're wearing?

BTW, tennis clothes are cute. I've been tempted to buy them for other activities.

[Anonymous]

Some clubs, like St Alban's, still require/request tennis whites.

Exactly, so when you hang out in your tennis whites you are advertising the fact that you belong to an exclusive club. That may not be your intention, but it is what it is.

Yes, this is the nut. If you're wearing black yoga pants and a hoodie at Giant, you could be doing anything from raking leaves to taking a class at Bikram yoga to catching a plane. There's no club involved that costs $300,000 and a Skull-and-Bones byzantine initiation process.

[Anonymous]

I love tennis clothes. And as someone who used to play all the time (before kids...) I can say that they are much more comfortable to play in. In fact I now wear my tennis skirts to run in!

[Anonymous]

This thread is funny. I have never, not once, ever noticed nor cared if someone was wearing tennis clothes...And, I certainly did not think they were making some kind of statement. I literally just thought they came from playing tennis.

Why would anyone think it's a commentary on one's status in life.

Such a random thing to a) notice and b) be self conscience about if you are the one wearing it.

[Anonymous]

Nobody cares what you wear OP. But FYI your Lands End tennis clothes are not a status symbol or trendy thing like lululemon or Louis Vuitton. So if that's what you're going for (which it's pretty clear you are, by the fact that you posted this) you should get some cuter/more upscale tennis clothes to wear while you prance around whole foods pretending anyone there actually notices what you are wearing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the only time I give a rat's ass is when this one woman at my church shows up at sunday morning mass in her tennis clothes, lugging her tennis racket. My church is a pretty formal church in Georgetown - ALL the men wear jackets and ties, even in the summer - and I think it's inappropriate. (I would have no problem with her changing clothes in the parish hall next door and stowing her stuff there.) generally if I'm running errands on a Saturday or Sunday, I'm probably wearing some form of workout-type clothes because they're comfortable, and because I probably have the gym or a yoga class on the schedule that day. (or a playground visit with my daughter.) I don't play tennis so I don't wear tennis clothes, but the basic idea is the same. What are we supposed to wear for grocery shopping or other stupid errands where nobody *should* care what you're wearing?

BTW, tennis clothes are cute. I've been tempted to buy them for other activities.

Irony?

[Anonymous]

I think it's great that you are exercising, no matter what your attire. Given the plethora of public (i.e., free) tennis courts, why would one assume you belong to some exclusive "club"? And, if you do belong, great! Who realy cares? And, to the church-going poster, I too appreciate when folks make an effort to dress up a bit for church. But, at the same time, I don't think God really cares whether someone is wearing a dress or a tennis skirt. You are no better or no worse than the tennis skirt lady. If an obviously destitute person showed up and sat in your pew at your church, would you welcome the person or put your nose in the air?

[Anonymous]

I hate you in your tennis clothes of you are tan and fit.

I like you if you are jiggly and white.

[Anonymous]

There are VERY few people who can pull off the just-from-tennis look. Once (and only once) I saw a perfectly fit woman - not an ounce of fat on her body - without the orange trashy spray tan in workout clothes that looked phenomenal. It seems the rest really don't realize how silly they look. But that is your prerogative, OP.

[Anonymous]

Isn't that kinda like me going to the grocery store in my top of the line mink coat?

[Anonymous]

So, women wear tennis skirts for ball room? Seriously?

Learn something new on DCUM everyday.

[Anonymous]

OMG! I didn't know wearing tennis clothes (even to play tennis) was a bad thing until I came to DCUM.
Some women here are just so envious, bitter and empty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG! I didn't know wearing tennis clothes (even to play tennis) was a bad thing until I came to DCUM.
Some women here are just so envious, bitter and empty!

Yes, the women wearing tennis clothes out and about do seem that way.