Outrage after man says women shouldn't wear yoga pants in public
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BARRINGTON,
R.I. (AP) — Women clad in yoga pants plan to parade through a coastal
Rhode Island town in protest of a man who said the attire looks tacky
and ridiculous.
The women plan to hold a parade Sunday in Barrington to show they can wear whatever they want.
Their
outrage is in response to a letter that town resident Alan Sorrentino
wrote to the Barrington Times about his dislike of yoga pants. He said
women over age 20 shouldn’t wear them.
“Yoga pants belong in the
yoga studio,” he wrote. “What’s next? Wearing a “Speedo” to the
supermarket? Imagine if men did that. Yuck!”
Sorrentino wrote that
it’s “bizarre and disturbing” to see the outfits on “mature, adult
women,” noting that it’s “usually paired with a blousy top and a pony
tail hairdo.” He said it’s the worst thing to happen in women’s fashion
since the miniskirt. He said women should wear a “nice pair of tailored
slacks” or jeans instead.
He told women who wear yoga pants that
he’s struggling with his own physicality as he ages and said, “I don’t
want to struggle with yours.” He didn’t return a call for comment
Friday.
Women in the town and around Rhode Island have called the comments sexist and are planning to parade down his street.
In
a Facebook page to promote the parade , women from as far as Texas and
Australia said they’ll wear yoga pants on Sunday in a show of
solidarity.
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