“The color of yoga is a heinous purply plum. It is the color of suburban brain death, of rude moms in Park Slope, the slightly crazy sister-in-law on Breaking Bad, of “camouflaging your trouble spots.” Yoga wear (which is fake athletic wear made of “flattering” cotton-poly knit) usually involves three items: tight black pants, a tank top, and a “wrap” that is simultaneously clingy and drapey and makes all women look pregnant. But now women dress like this all the time. Since insidious yoga fashion has infiltrated regular fashion, half of all sweaters have grown inexplicable clumps of fabric that “hide” beer bellies and hips by drawing big fat plum-colored arrows on them. Just look how this yoga gear (above) from Athleta (the three on the left) has encouraged these crimes from Anthropologie (the one on the right).
“There are a million more like it. Claire Zulkey has written movingly about what the cardigan on the far right did to her: “The sweater made me look like a witch who was 11 months pregnant and had the added bonus of being too tight in the sleeves, so it cleverly concealed the natural curves of my body while emphasizing my arm fat.” Zulkey only has yoga to blame.”
