Are you wearing the right sweats....

So....as many of you know, today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day (thank you) so I am sitting at home, working on a couple of projects, like consolidating my student loans, and I was thinking....."What am I going to write about today?" The answer, by golly, just came to me! Tacky sweats v. Trendy sweats. Is there a difference, you may ask. Yes there is! There is the traditional sweat pant and then there are cute sweats. Cute sweats are something like yoga pants. They have the little boot leg cut at the bottom rather than the scrunchie-look. Here are some examples:

On the left is the traditional gathered at the ankle look. Typically, this is not a cute look, right now anyways. However, it can be pulled off, only if the sweats are really baggy to give some width to the bottom of the leg. Never ever wear skin tight sweats! One word...Gross. The pair on the right are the newer, more modern version of sweats, the yoga or fashion sweat pant. Same function, different effect. These are flattering on every figure and come a wide array of cute colors and styles, with or without stripes. These are made to skim the upper leg, so just be sure that you don't have panty lines!

One may wonder though: Really, if you are going to be sitting at home, doing laundry and such, does it really matter? Remember two things:

1. Women are multitaskers! We will inevitably decide to run to the grocery store between loads to pick up a few items. There we will inevitably run into our boss, frienemy, or a cutie that we really would not prefer to see us looking like tacky, stuck-in-the-80's homebodies!

2. It doesn't matter what you are doing, if a woman thinks she looks good, she will feel good. So feel free to dance around and know that you look darn cute in your yoga pants while scrubbing soap scum. Its a little self-esteem booster and it can't hurt!

Any other thoughts on sweat etiquette? Please, leave a comment to share about your own sweat horrors or great finds!