The Yoga Pants That Can Pass As, Well, Pants

 Lucy culottes, tee and sports bra (c/o*) // Birkenstock sandals (get the narrow size!) // Annabel Ingall tote // Nashelle custom bracelets (c/o) // Gaim yoga mat // Ray-Ban sunglasses

Have you ever gone to yoga, to the gym, to spin, to barre, or whatever fitness activity you do and see nothing but a sea of black pants? Probably ones that are skin tight throughout. Perhaps they flare. Maybe they even have an obviously branded logo on the leg. Whatever they may be, you’ve probably seen them more often at the grocery store, at the park, at the coffee shop, etc. Are you picking up what I’m putting down?

There’s a time and a place for the yoga pant.

That’s IN yoga class.

Living in Brooklyn, sometimes I run errands before or after my fitness classes, so I’m totally guilty of this fashion faux pas or mainstream casual look (you decide) accidentally. While I would never intentionally wear yoga pants without the intention of working out, you may catch me at the market picking up almond milk in my stretchy black athletic pants post workout.

That disclaimer being said, I just discovered a new silhouette of workout pant that I’m loving wearing, which has been a huge trend in fashion this past year: the culotte.

Unlike the pant style that you typically see, these are cool, casual, and dare I say, fashionable, and not to mention functional for when I go to hot yoga and need to slip off my pant for a short. If you didn’t see that yoga mat sticking out of my tote, you may even not think, that girl is either going to yoga or is one of those girls that wears yoga pants on the weekends. Well I am now. To both. These are the yoga pants that can pass as, well, pants.

STYLIST TIP: Cover up your sports bra or athletic top with a easy breezy tee like this one. Tie a knot on the side or roll the sleeves for an effortlessly chic look. If the sleeves don’t stay rolled, either put a stitch in it to hold or what I did, use Topstick to make it stay.

*All athletic wear provided by Lucy; what I choose to wear and opinions are all my own.