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Yoga Pants - Appropriate?

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A recently enforced ban on yoga pants and leggings by a high school in Rockport, Massachusetts, has some students and parents saying the policy goes too far. Rockport High School’s dress code states that students are not to wear the offending pants however, students say the policy was not enforced until recently.


Thoughts?

I gotta say....yoga pants are one of the greatest inventions ever....when worn by the right females....

But are yoga pants appropriate things for kids/girls to wear to school?
 
This is all I could think of.

 
Eh,

I doubt its that disruptive to the educational environment and some idiot is on some moral crusade or something.
 
As long as they're neither too tight (camel toe eeeew), nor see-through, I don't see why they would be "distracting". I agree with the young girl who feels "objectified" by this silly rule. This just teaches them that women are basically responsible for the reaction the opposite sex has to their appearance. I'm not sure it's such a good idea to perpetuate that kind of idiotic thinking.
 
As long as they're neither too tight (camel toe eeeew), nor see-through, I don't see why they would be "distracting". I agree with the young girl who feels "objectified" by this silly rule. This just teaches them that women are basically responsible for the reaction the opposite sex has to their appearance. I'm not sure it's such a good idea to perpetuate that kind of idiotic thinking.

This.
 
My fiance and I were talking about this topic in a more general manner about a month or so ago. It's not just young ladies in school environments. It's ladies of a wide variety of ages throughout the public areas of our society. I asked her when it had become appropriate for women to wear yoga pants/leggings without some sort of covering for the upper part of the leg and hip area. She just shook her head and told me she didn't know either. When I was growing up (born in 1974), a young woman would have been thrown out of school for showing up without something covering her leggings. It was simply not considered appropriate. Nowadays, I see women of a variety of ages wearing nothing more than yoga pants/leggings without a covering almost everywhere I go.

It seems to me that we as a society have become much more accepting of women openly displaying and advertising parts of their body that we were not comfortable with them displaying as recently as 10-15 years ago. Whether that's a matter of the increased sexualization of society, a general reduction in the self-esteem of women in society, or something else, I have no idea. As a red-blooded, heterosexual, American male, I enjoy an attractive female body. However, I don't believe that I (or anyone else) needs to be seeing a 15 or 16 year old in jeans/yoga pants/leggings so tight that you can tell what she's wearing underneath them. The same way I don't need to see her bra straps, her belly button, or any part of her chest. Save that for when you're a little bit older, hopefully a lot wiser, and much more understanding of the world around you and how you appear to it.

So, I have to agree with the school on this one. There is no need for a young woman to be wearing yoga pants/leggings without some sort of sweater, skirt, etc... covering at least down past her buttocks (at the very least).
 
My fiance and I were talking about this topic in a more general manner about a month or so ago. It's not just young ladies in school environments. It's ladies of a wide variety of ages throughout the public areas of our society. I asked her when it had become appropriate for women to wear yoga pants/leggings without some sort of covering for the upper part of the leg and hip area. She just shook her head and told me she didn't know either. When I was growing up (born in 1974), a young woman would have been thrown out of school for showing up without something covering her leggings. It was simply not considered appropriate. Nowadays, I see women of a variety of ages wearing nothing more than yoga pants/leggings without a covering almost everywhere I go.

It seems to me that we as a society have become much more accepting of women openly displaying and advertising parts of their body that we were not comfortable with them displaying as recently as 10-15 years ago. Whether that's a matter of the increased sexualization of society, a general reduction in the self-esteem of women in society, or something else, I have no idea. As a red-blooded, heterosexual, American male, I enjoy an attractive female body. However, I don't believe that I (or anyone else) needs to be seeing a 15 or 16 year old in jeans/yoga pants/leggings so tight that you can tell what she's wearing underneath them. The same way I don't need to see her bra straps, her belly button, or any part of her chest. Save that for when you're a little bit older, hopefully a lot wiser, and much more understanding of the world around you and how you appear to it.

So, I have to agree with the school on this one. There is no need for a young woman to be wearing yoga pants/leggings without some sort of sweater, skirt, etc... covering at least down past her buttocks (at the very least).

Great post. Certainly not as old as you, but I loved the way life was even 10 years ago. Nowadays everything is about Facebook, Twitter, and the latest tight skirt to display. Society is too sexualized, today.
 
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Thoughts?

I gotta say....yoga pants are one of the greatest inventions ever....when worn by the right females....
But are yoga pants appropriate things for kids/girls to wear to school?

Unfortunately when worn by the wrong people (note I am not being gender specific) They are one of the worst inventions ever.
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That girl doesn't even look human
Agreed.

Apparently, some men have a skewed idea of what women are supposed to look like.... I guess anorexic is in again. :-/
 
Agreed. Apparently, some men have a skewed idea of what women are supposed to look like.... I guess anorexic is in again. :-/

Honestly, I don't think anorexia has ever been "in" with guys, TGND. I honestly don't know a single guy who likes the stick-figure girls. Men tend to like curves on a woman. We like a woman who takes care of herself and is confident with/in her body. I dated one "stick-figure" girl in college and every time I hugged her, I swear I thought I was going to snap her in half like a toothpick. That's not sexy or arousing so far as I (and all the guys I know) am concerned.
 
That girl doesn't even look human

I don't go much on her choice of gym colours, looks like something barbie would wear but there's nothing wrong with her body. She looks fit and toned.
 
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Thoughts?

I gotta say....yoga pants are one of the greatest inventions ever....when worn by the right females....

But are yoga pants appropriate things for kids/girls to wear to school?

Ya' know? I'm getting sick of public schools policing girls' clothing...trying to define common sense standards...having to reduce dress codes to writing and then seeing the girls/guys push the envelope...listening to, "It's the guys' faults."

But if we must...

Then don't ban jeggings; ban jeggings without a coverup to X-inches below the crotch.

In the olden days (hahahaha!), if a teacher didn't think a girl was dressed appropriately, she was sent to "the office" where a completely subjective decision was made and a girl might be sent home to change. Now, I guess, we've got to reduce everything to writing. Sometimes difficult to do.

People who don't get that high school guys shouldn't have to walk around with hard-ons all day are idiots.
 
But if we must...

Then don't ban jeggings; ban jeggings without a coverup to X-inches below the crotch.

I'm totally in agreement. I've got no problem with the leggings, so long as there's something covering the upper (hip/crotch/ass) portion of them. That was the expectation when and where I grew up.

People who don't get that high school guys shouldn't have to walk around with hard-ons all day are idiots.

Not sure if you were being sarcastic with this or not, but it's not the real issue so far as I'm concerned. It's much more about self-esteem and just a little bit of propriety. If a woman feels like she has to walk around dressed like that, it says something to me about her personality, attitude and self-respect; and it's not anything good. Maybe we need to go back to some level of education in our schools about what it means to be a Lady and/or a Gentleman?
 
Eh,

I doubt its that disruptive to the educational environment and some idiot is on some moral crusade or something.

I don't think that is necessarily the case. My granddaughter loves to wear leggings, and she wears them virtually every day. My son (her father) insists that she wears a skirt over them. He is the last person that most would considere a moral crusader. He is politically liberal, and culturally liberal as well, but he doesnt want his daughter to be sexually objectified based on how she dresses. He would rather she get attention based on her intellect and skills, when it comes to social hierarchy in school.
 
Maybe we need to go back to some level of education in our schools about what it means to be a Lady and/or a Gentleman?

That education should be taking place at the breakfast table.
 
I had a low key job a few yrs ago where I'd where yoga pants to work(black-to my ankle).A co-worker told me that they were distracting to him. He was also a major flirt and would say other innapropriate things to me,so clearly I wasn't the one with the problem.
 

I see your point, but that isn't how these high school girls are dressing in freaking Massachusetts. At least not in the winter.

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Agreed.

Apparently, some men have a skewed idea of what women are supposed to look like.... I guess anorexic is in again. :-/

That's not anorexia. That's hard work. You can tell by looking at the thighs.
 
That education should be taking place at the breakfast table.

100% in agreement, Maggie. Unfortunately so many of these young people of both genders have nothing that even comes close to a reasonable role model at home to begin with.
 
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