Purple velour and gold trim, tracksuits wandering far far from home
- Source: Global Times
- [23:09 January 20 2010]
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By JENNIFER EDEN
Casually going about my business in a typically crazily-crowded IKEA store recently, I dropped my miniscule pencil, courteously provided by the store to help navigate your way through the maze of do-it-yourself furniture and people reclining on anything that provides an opportunity to do so, to be faced, after picking up my dropped pencil, with the word "juicy" blazonly embroided in shiny gold letters across someone's bum.
Reeling in shock and picking myself back up off the ground, it was not the words so much that caused my reaction, but the fact that they were on the backside of a purple velour tracksuit, that was nowhere near a track, or indeed, any sporting event of any kind.
Looking around the jam-packed store, I noticed that the term "leisurewear" had in fact, been taken to its extreme and suddenly included tracksuits, that quite rightly so and without question, fall under the "sportswear" category of attire.
Tracksuits are comfortable and perfect for use on and even around, the track.
Sometimes they can cross-over to team sports such as volleyball or soccer and are perfect whilst playing tennis or badminton – they are not, in anyway whatsoever, supposed to be worn on purpose to a department store, restaurant or to work.
There are rare exceptions, including falling out of the house to pick up a pizza after a big night out, or maybe during an emergency run to 7-11 for a chocolate bar and can of coke at midnight. These situations lend themselves to tracksuits being excusable. The keeping of clothing in their respective categories is a mandatory condition of life in society in my opinion – although maybe I am the odd one out, the girl next to me in the subway this morning was wearing black tights, brown shorts, a pink spotted mini-skirt and blue stripy tracksuit top, all at the same time.
