Do women wear athletic wear like this in Europe?

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Anonymous wrote:Agree not to wear these. But what should OP wear? Links to pants?

Same question. I have leggings and jeans. Only dress pants for work. What the heck are hiking pants?

In the U.S., these are worn by REI customers.

They're often in ugly earth tones. Made of a variety of fabrics from cotton to recycled plastics. Sometimes they are kind of baggy and wrinkly. I suppose Europeans probably prefer black and slimmer cut, less wrinkly styles.

A key aspect is that hiking pants are "technical" in some amorphous way. They wick, they are stain resistant, etc.

https://www.rei.com/c/womens-hiking-pants

Next you need a primer in when to use Alpen walking sticks vs. trekking poles. I've never done a hike where stabbing the ground along the way was useful, so I haven't read up.

I simply cannot. Those are so ugly.
I’ll wear my fleece lined Athleta peak hybrid.
Smartwool tops.

People wear hiking pants to *hike*, ya dummies, not to hit on their kids’ classmates’s dads at pick up.

IOW, these are performance garments. Who cares if they’re ugly?

Yet I’m going to be hiking all day and then ducking into some chalet restaurant in Zermatt or wengen for supper. Needs to be cute yet functional.

Well if you're hiking then it's fine. You listed off a bunch of European cities, though, which is why we're saying it's not a great look for a city.

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Anonymous wrote:I own a few sets like these from Lululemon, Athletica, Target, would I stand out like a sore thumb in London, Geneva, Zurich, and Paris?

You will look like a tourist because you are a tourist. You won’t really blend in at all. Has nothing to do with Lululemon.

You’re a tourist, just embrace that. Trying to pretend as if you are not is silly.

When I was in Europe, only the American tourists were in athletic wear.

Who cares? As a tourist nobody is planning to live there or make friends. There's no reason to blend in. Tourists have a lot of walking and sightseeing to do and it's about function over form. I'm not going to wear heels and tights running around all day to look like a local who isn't walking far or doing the same things. When they come to the US I won't notice or care how they dress either.

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Prana send off pants are great. I wear them for hiking, but they also look ok with a sweater and boots.

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Anonymous wrote:I own a few sets like these from Lululemon, Athletica, Target, would I stand out like a sore thumb in London, Geneva, Zurich, and Paris?

You will look like a tourist because you are a tourist. You won’t really blend in at all. Has nothing to do with Lululemon.

You’re a tourist, just embrace that. Trying to pretend as if you are not is silly.

When I was in Europe, only the American tourists were in athletic wear.

Who cares? As a tourist nobody is planning to live there or make friends. There's no reason to blend in. Tourists have a lot of walking and sightseeing to do and it's about function over form. I'm not going to wear heels and tights running around all day to look like a local who isn't walking far or doing the same things. When they come to the US I won't notice or care how they dress either.

OP obviously cares or she wouldn't be here asking!

I do like making friends when I travel. It's often one of my favorite parts of going someplace new - chatting with and kibbitzing with new people. Often I get good recs of things to see and do that way. But yeah, we're tourists! We're not going to look otherwise. But do you want to look good as a tourist or, in the words of David Sedaris, look like you're there to mow the lawn?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I own a few sets like these from Lululemon, Athletica, Target, would I stand out like a sore thumb in London, Geneva, Zurich, and Paris?

You will look like a tourist because you are a tourist. You won’t really blend in at all. Has nothing to do with Lululemon.

You’re a tourist, just embrace that. Trying to pretend as if you are not is silly.

When I was in Europe, only the American tourists were in athletic wear.

Who cares? As a tourist nobody is planning to live there or make friends. There's no reason to blend in. Tourists have a lot of walking and sightseeing to do and it's about function over form. I'm not going to wear heels and tights running around all day to look like a local who isn't walking far or doing the same things. When they come to the US I won't notice or care how they dress either.

OP obviously cares or she wouldn't be here asking!

I do like making friends when I travel. It's often one of my favorite parts of going someplace new - chatting with and kibbitzing with new people. Often I get good recs of things to see and do that way. But yeah, we're tourists! We're not going to look otherwise. But do you want to look good as a tourist or, in the words of David Sedaris, look like you're there to mow the lawn?

I don't go around thinking everyone is looking at me. Because they aren't. I'm going to walk a lot, it might rain, or the sun might be blazing and I need to be comfortable all day.. If my new "friends" will judge me then they aren't friends I'm interested in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I own a few sets like these from Lululemon, Athletica, Target, would I stand out like a sore thumb in London, Geneva, Zurich, and Paris?

You will look like a tourist because you are a tourist. You won’t really blend in at all. Has nothing to do with Lululemon.

You’re a tourist, just embrace that. Trying to pretend as if you are not is silly.

When I was in Europe, only the American tourists were in athletic wear.

Who cares? As a tourist nobody is planning to live there or make friends. There's no reason to blend in. Tourists have a lot of walking and sightseeing to do and it's about function over form. I'm not going to wear heels and tights running around all day to look like a local who isn't walking far or doing the same things. When they come to the US I won't notice or care how they dress either.

True. And if you are the kind of person who doesn’t know whether Yoga pants are acceptable in Paris or Rome, you will give yourself away in a thousand other ways anyway, eg talking inane nonsense super loudly, your group stopping in the middle of a busy pavement to gawp at something etc.

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Honestly you will stick out because people just don’t dress like this in European cities (western). I am at a playground in my neighborhood with my kids right now and see one woman wearing matching sweatpants as her toddler. Everyone else is in jeans and sneakers. I’ve upped my playground game here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I own a few sets like these from Lululemon, Athletica, Target, would I stand out like a sore thumb in London, Geneva, Zurich, and Paris?

You will look like a tourist because you are a tourist. You won’t really blend in at all. Has nothing to do with Lululemon.

You’re a tourist, just embrace that. Trying to pretend as if you are not is silly.

When I was in Europe, only the American tourists were in athletic wear.

Who cares? As a tourist nobody is planning to live there or make friends. There's no reason to blend in. Tourists have a lot of walking and sightseeing to do and it's about function over form. I'm not going to wear heels and tights running around all day to look like a local who isn't walking far or doing the same things. When they come to the US I won't notice or care how they dress either.

True. And if you are the kind of person who doesn’t know whether Yoga pants are acceptable in Paris or Rome, you will give yourself away in a thousand other ways anyway, eg talking inane nonsense super loudly, your group stopping in the middle of a busy pavement to gawp at something etc.

People who live in tourist destinations, like me, love to hate these people. They are annoying but we depend on their tourism. I don't care if they are trying to dress to fit in. Usually they aren't and it's a dead giveaway, but, again, so what? Sometimes I will ask them where they are from and we chat anyway. Despite their uncool not fitting in clothes.

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People will know you are a tourist no matter how you dress, so wear something comfortable and climate appropriate.

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OMG no one cares. Wear what you want, there is no european fashion police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree not to wear these. But what should OP wear? Links to pants?

Same question. I have leggings and jeans. Only dress pants for work. What the heck are hiking pants?

In the U.S., these are worn by REI customers.

They're often in ugly earth tones. Made of a variety of fabrics from cotton to recycled plastics. Sometimes they are kind of baggy and wrinkly. I suppose Europeans probably prefer black and slimmer cut, less wrinkly styles.

A key aspect is that hiking pants are "technical" in some amorphous way. They wick, they are stain resistant, etc.

https://www.rei.com/c/womens-hiking-pants

Next you need a primer in when to use Alpen walking sticks vs. trekking poles. I've never done a hike where stabbing the ground along the way was useful, so I haven't read up.

I simply cannot. Those are so ugly.
I’ll wear my fleece lined Athleta peak hybrid.
Smartwool tops.

People wear hiking pants to *hike*, ya dummies, not to hit on their kids’ classmates’s dads at pick up.

IOW, these are performance garments. Who cares if they’re ugly?

Yet I’m going to be hiking all day and then ducking into some chalet restaurant in Zermatt or wengen for supper. Needs to be cute yet functional.

Are you OP? If so, this is a different fact pattern than your original post stated. If you are hiking in the day, of course the outfits you posted are fine (minus that you’ll be freezing- you’ll need to layer up a lot), including for any lunch stops. Then go back to your hotel room to change before dinner. As many others already replied, different answer if you were spending your days traipsing around a city, to museums, lunch etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree not to wear these. But what should OP wear? Links to pants?

Same question. I have leggings and jeans. Only dress pants for work. What the heck are hiking pants?

In the U.S., these are worn by REI customers.

They're often in ugly earth tones. Made of a variety of fabrics from cotton to recycled plastics. Sometimes they are kind of baggy and wrinkly. I suppose Europeans probably prefer black and slimmer cut, less wrinkly styles.

A key aspect is that hiking pants are "technical" in some amorphous way. They wick, they are stain resistant, etc.

https://www.rei.com/c/womens-hiking-pants

Next you need a primer in when to use Alpen walking sticks vs. trekking poles. I've never done a hike where stabbing the ground along the way was useful, so I haven't read up.

I simply cannot. Those are so ugly.
I’ll wear my fleece lined Athleta peak hybrid.
Smartwool tops.

People wear hiking pants to *hike*, ya dummies, not to hit on their kids’ classmates’s dads at pick up.

IOW, these are performance garments. Who cares if they’re ugly?

Yet I’m going to be hiking all day and then ducking into some chalet restaurant in Zermatt or wengen for supper. Needs to be cute yet functional.

Well if you're hiking then it's fine. You listed off a bunch of European cities, though, which is why we're saying it's not a great look for a city.

I’m not the OP. I just wanted to know Europe in general

[Anonymous]

In Europe we white people want everyone to think we live there. I don't know why.
Meanwhile if you travel in Japan the whole point is to look like a tourist. You don't want to be mistaken for a military wife (who can be identified by this exact outfit.) Bonus points if a Japanese person thinks you are a tourist from Europe.

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Op here. Thanks PPs! I am not the hiking PP. I don’t find jeans very comfortable fwiw. I was born in the 80s and part of the low-rise stretch jeans fads of the early 00s. I’m interested in comfort and tend to do more castle and museum visits than outdoor hiking trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I own a few sets like these from Lululemon, Athletica, Target, would I stand out like a sore thumb in London, Geneva, Zurich, and Paris?

You will look like a tourist because you are a tourist. You won’t really blend in at all. Has nothing to do with Lululemon.

You’re a tourist, just embrace that. Trying to pretend as if you are not is silly.

When I was in Europe, only the American tourists were in athletic wear.

Did you personally ask each and every person you saw in athletic wear if they were tourists?

In the Nordic countries it’s quite common to see the locals out and about in athleisure…