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Skintight leggings or baggy joggers? What your gymwear says about you – and the world
Social media will tell you that all millennials dress one way to work out, while gen Z dresses another. The truth is more complex and far more interesting
A raft of newer brands, such as Toronto’s Literary Sport, founded by creatives Deirdre Matthews and M Bechara, and Los Angeles’s Everybody.World, set up by former American Apparel employees, may be behind the looser lines, popularising casually-fitting track pants, among other items. Photograph: The Barre Fitness StudioBurke says: “A fair few of our clients will stay in activewear all day, for coffee, work and the school run, due to our studio being less on the sweaty side.” That tallies with the continued march of gymwear as everyday wear. In an article in 2019, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino posited athleisure as a uniform that represented the principle of “optimisation”: “the process of making something, as the dictionary puts it, ‘as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible’”.
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