Tracksuits are bad for morale.
It was a lesson first instilled in me by my fashionista mother, and later reinforced by long periods working from home as a writer. Tracksuits slow you down. Tracksuits render you horizontal.
Tracksuits encourage little more than collapsing onto the couch, spooning tinned spaghetti into jaffles, and falling into a catatonic state in front of Netflix. Right?
Wrong.
‘Wrong’ – a word, incidentally, also used to describe the new look to stumble blindly off the catwalk and into our wardrobes: fashion tracksuits.
It has a zip. It has a rouched waistline. Heck, it’s even got an old-school stripe down the side (snap side trackie dacks, anyone?) – but Rihanna’s heavenly green satin creation is more ‘catwalk’ that ‘Coles frozen food aisle’ if you ask us.
Fashion Queen & Inventor Of The Wedding Cardigan, her royal highness Olivia Palermo, gives the glamour trackie top a major style heave-ho with her leather and red-stiletto combo. Oh, we get it now!
Glamour tracksuit = Sports Luxe, right? Fashion. Leather. Big sunglasses.
Yeah?
Closer to home, Sydney designer/ Cool Person/ Trendy Head of Hair, Pip Edwards, has just launched her own label – P.E. Nation; which features a veritable smorgasbord of glamour tracksuits.
There’s drawstrings upon zips upon grey marle of cool trackie designs, and we’re almost positive we could chuck any of those items on with some skinny jeans and sky-high heels and not look like Vicky Pollard.
Thanks, Pip.
But our favourite glamour trackie representative we’ve stumbled on so far MUST be Advanced Style alumni and all-round legend Sarah-Jane Adams (aka. @Saramaijewels), who rocks out an Adidas Originals trackie top like no other. This woman can do no wrong.
For those still being a Doubting Thomas, take those rolling eyes right here to Vogue.com, where Julia Hobbs has slaved over an extensive list of high-end brands reinventing the tracksuit.
“The tracksuit has now been overhauled,” notes Hobbs, “by catwalk powerhouses Chloe, Gucci and Bottega Veneta and made very chic.”
VERY. CHIC.
Slobs rejoice, for the Soft Suit is back. Where from, exactly, we’re not sure – but it’s back.
With winter well on its way, get ready to rock the Michelin-man look in the cooler months.
Prepare to layer up your usual blazers, skirts, and skinny jeans with a sports-luxe vibe that may or may not make you look like you had to borrow from the office’s lost property bin because an unexpected cold snap moved through late afternoon.
Fashion, whatta game.
Top Comments
I believe you can wear anything, as long as you do it with "confidence". Once again the message is "wear what you want".
From Seinfeld
Jerry to George: "Again with the sweatpants?"
George: "What? I'm comfortable."
Jerry: "You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up ... so I might as well be comfortable.'"
Comfort for me
"You're telling the world: "I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable." ([Flyingdale Flyer] is baffled)"
( http://www.seinfeldscripts.... )
It's nothing new for me