posted 2005/12/29 at 21:37
Whatever happened to the concept of going out and buying a simple pair of sweatpants?
I remember that when I was a teenager, I could go down to the K-mart just a mile down the road from my house and pick up either a sweatshirt or a pair of sweatpants, in any of the eight standard crayon colours, for five bucks each. I've never cared for sweatshirts, but sweatpants have always been my bottoms of choice because they're functional and comfortable, and if you're wearing black (like I always do) they're virtually indistinguishable from trousers unless you look really closely at them.
These days I just can't seem to find sweatpants anywhere. The closest thing I can find are these so-called "yoga pants" that not only do a much poorer job of keeping your legs warm in these cold winter months, but also cost upwards of $25.
Did the government or the fashion police make sweatpants illegal when I wasn't looking?
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