Why do some SAHM wear workout gear all day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm probably the mom that she saw! For me, the reason is timing. I have two and a half hours to get everything in hat I need to do. I dress in my workout gear before we leave, do the drop off, get errands out if the way and go for a run/workout right before pickup. I may not look like I worked out but I most definitely did. That's why I wear the fancy workout gear in fact! It looks good even after you workout, especially if I throw on a cute hat and a nice looking fitted workout jacket.

Guess we could ask why do au pairs always wear grungy tees and too short shorts but I get it, it's comfortable. 'Nough said.

+1

I've seen au pairs walk around in sports bras and short shorts. Totally unflattering, yes, but also unprofessional. As far as I am concerned, when it is during working hours, since they are getting paid, they need to dress properly and appropriately.

I don't tend to care what other moms wear, but the boy body moms need to back off from commenting on the non-boy body moms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder about this too. I think they do work out, but maybe don't change immediately. They're probably comfortable.

I'm fine with this, as I am not generally preoccupied with what other people are doing, unless it is truly, physically hurting someone, in real time. Otherwise, I butt out, just like more suburban moms should learn to do, before they get themselves into trouble.

What is amusing is the snifflier than thous, who may feel threatened when a SAHM in workout clothes looks hotter than them. It's SO obvious! I have hot friends, and they get reactions at the store or whatever. I have seen it, and it is always by some frumpy hag that looks 20-40 older than my friends, but are probably about the same age. Funny!!

I'm pretty sure that it's ironic when somebody makes fun of people who disapprove of other people's appearance by calling the disapproving people "frumpy hags" and saying they look old for their age, but I admit that I haven't been sure about what's truly ironic and what isn't since 1996.

Like a traffic jam, when you're already late?

[Anonymous]

When I worked, I was out of my business attire and in comfy clothes faster than I could shut the front door. Now that I'm home and I'm chasing a toddler around, I only wear clothes that I find comfortable. I really don't think jeans are comfortable. I also appreciate that by wearing yoga pants, I am inadvertently weeding out the judgmental stuck up b!tches who I have absolutely no desire to befriend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

+1

I've seen au pairs walk around in sports bras and short shorts. Totally unflattering, yes, but also unprofessional. As far as I am concerned, when it is during working hours, since they are getting paid, they need to dress properly and appropriately.

I don't tend to care what other moms wear, but the boy body moms need to back off from commenting on the non-boy body moms.

Are you the au pair's boss? If so, then you have a say in what the au pair wears while at work. If not, then you don't.

Also, everybody who is a woman and has a body has a woman's body.

[Anonymous]

http://didyougetanyofthat.blogspot.com/2012/02/ill-be-wearing-my-yoga-pants.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to be in a suit or business attire all day. On weekends, I wear "workout gear" (yoga pants, etc.) all day. If I could, I would wear "workout gear" all day, every day. I don't blame SAHMs one bit. Just a little jealous is all

Yeah, when I work at home I never get out of what I wore to work out in in the morning.

[Anonymous]

I work outside of the home, but like a PP said the minute I get home I get into comfy clothes so I can be on the floor with my 9 month old! We also usually go for a walk in the evenings with the baby and the dog, which isn't the most comfy in work clothes or even jeans. On the weekends, if we are just at home I wear comfy yoga pants and an Old Navy v-neck t-shirt or something like that. I'll also wear this running errands. But not out to dinner or to a party or whatever. When you have young kids you're chasing around its nice to be comfy!

[Anonymous]

Because it's a close as you can get to wearing pajamas.

I'm a work-from-home-mom married to a work-from-home-dad. I: wear yoga pants as much as possible, in and out of the house. He: wears PJ bottoms or shorts in the house, and slips on a jeans when he walks out.

I could care less.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It drives me nuts, and I'm a SAHM!! Not that I'm the most fashionable person, but still!!

Me, too! Why not just stay in your pjs?!

Well, sometimes I do. Yep, that's me in my sweats strolling down the aisles at Whole Foods. Couldn't care less what you uptight biatches think!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I worked, I was out of my business attire and in comfy clothes faster than I could shut the front door. Now that I'm home and I'm chasing a toddler around, I only wear clothes that I find comfortable. I really don't think jeans are comfortable. I also appreciate that by wearing yoga pants, I am inadvertently weeding out the judgmental stuck up b!tches who I have absolutely no desire to befriend.

THIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder about this too. I think they do work out, but maybe don't change immediately. They're probably comfortable.

I'm fine with this, as I am not generally preoccupied with what other people are doing, unless it is truly, physically hurting someone, in real time. Otherwise, I butt out, just like more suburban moms should learn to do, before they get themselves into trouble.

What is amusing is the snifflier than thous, who may feel threatened when a SAHM in workout clothes looks hotter than them. It's SO obvious! I have hot friends, and they get reactions at the store or whatever. I have seen it, and it is always by some frumpy hag that looks 20-40 older than my friends, but are probably about the same age. Funny!!

I'm pretty sure that it's ironic when somebody makes fun of people who disapprove of other people's appearance by calling the disapproving people "frumpy hags" and saying they look old for their age, but I admit that I haven't been sure about what's truly ironic and what isn't since 1996.

Like a traffic jam, when you're already late?

AUGH!

[Anonymous]

OP. I should've emphasized that I think she was particularly taken with the fact they were all wearing very expensive workout gear - which goes against the playing with the kids argument - but still comfy and I guess it's the fashion. Just curious, not bothered, but curious. maybe I should trade in my old-fashioned jeans for some Lucy gear for the days I'm home asap!

[Anonymous]

I'm a sahm and I feel weird when I wear my workout clothes to dropoff or pickup (out of car).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a sahm and I feel weird when I wear my workout clothes to dropoff or pickup (out of car).

Some of us no longer care.

I do strive to wear jeans when I go into the school for a meeting. But if I'm "on kid duty," I don't bother. I don't judge anyone who takes the time to dress more formally than I do... or brush their hair. Yes, my standards have fallen... fallen... fallen... !!! Eek.

[Anonymous]

Obviously because it's comfortable - yoga pants and a nice workout top look better than PJ's. Get a life seriously.....