AUTHOR: Marty, a.k.a. canape TITLE: If you are nekkid in the woods alone, are you really nekkid? DATE: 5/03/2007 03:57:00 PM ----- BODY:
I know it's Thursday. Another Thursday with no tune. Guy promises me though, that the tune will be ready for posting before midnight. We found an old 4-track tape of a band I used to be in, and it is pay dirt. The last of the divorce-trilogy posts will be up complete with tune-age.

For now though, I have a question for you. When I was at Whymommy's house a couple of weeks ago, we had a little disagreement. Quite frankly, I got thrown under the truck! Now, I need some opinions. Even if they keep me right under the proverbial truck.

There are these pants. Some people call them pajama pants. Some people call them lounge pants. Some people, some really ingenious people, wear them to a yoga class and then call them yoga pants.

Do you know these pants?

Guy insists that they are not yoga pants simply because I wear them to yoga. I was hoping for (especially since I showed up at her house wearing a pair of them) that Whymommy would back up my claim that it was perfectly okay to be wearing these out in public. She said that if they had a drawstring, then they were pajama pants.

What?

Drawstring?

I'm being called out for a drawstring? How many other fashion disasters have you let me go through without telling me? Am I surprised now that you didn't stop me from wearing leggings and big tunic tops well into the '90's? Oh the pain.

So what do you think? If you wear a pair of solid colored knit pants that have a drawstring on them, are they always pajama pants? Even if you wear them to yoga?

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----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Paper Whore DATE:Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 9:11:00 PM EDT I have a pair of black yoga pants that are clingy through the hips and thighs and then flare out from the knee down. I don't consider these pajama pants (even though I have never been in a yoga class in my life) and I very often wear them out in public. To me, if they're not sold in the pajama section of the store and they are a solid color, they are not necessarily pajama pants.

Yoga pants are the world's most comfortable pants. Why waste them on sleeping? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Cake DATE:Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 9:28:00 PM EDT I have a gray pair like the pp described.

I DON'T wear mine to Yoga (although I would, I suppose, if I went), but according to Old Navy - they are clearly Yoga Pants, drawsting and all. I proudly wear them when running errands, etc.

What about track pants that have a drawstring? Are they jammies too?

Kristen ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Marty, a.k.a. canape DATE:Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 10:51:00 PM EDT Awesome. I'm wearing my lounge-pajama-yoga pants in complete happiness. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous gail DATE:Friday, May 4, 2007 at 9:14:00 AM EDT I wear a pair of Khaki capri's from the "big girls" section that not only have a waist band, but also a drawstring.... they are no jammie pants.. they rock! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Amy DATE:Friday, May 4, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM EDT I'm sorry, but I have to agree. Drawstring = pajamas. That does NOT, however, mean I wouldn't wear them in public. I have no shame. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous AcadeMama DATE:Sunday, May 6, 2007 at 5:56:00 PM EDT Everything under the damn sun has a drawstring these days!! Argh! I just went shopping yesterday and couldn't find anything without a stupid drawstring, and NONE of the items I was looking at were pajamas. Your pants are whatever the tag says they are, regardless of where you wear them. I can wear a bikini to yoga, but that doesn't make it a yoga-suit: it's still a bikini. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Mamma DATE:Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 12:11:00 AM EDT First I thought to ask if the drawstring was on the inside or the outside. But I just realized I have a new pair of pants that are like cargo pants and they have a drawstring on the outside. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Marty, a.k.a. canape DATE:Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 7:43:00 AM EDT Yoga bikini. Awesome.

Yesterday I was wearing a knit skirt with a drawstring at the waist and my stepdaughter asked if it was a yoga skirt.

Sigh ----- --------