I'll be wearing my yoga pants.

Sweatpants have long been considered the pinnacle of comfort. Invented in the 1920's, they were the sportswear of choice for over 60 years.

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They segued into doubling as loungewear in the 1980's with the explosion of a video/screen-oriented lifestyle. "They offered the non-judgmental comfort of flannel pajamas while creating the illusion that aerobic activity was on the horizon." 

As time went on, the Fashion Police deemed sweatpants slovenly...inappropriate and disgusting for normal everyday wear. The Fashionable Moms criticized 'sloppy' moms for wearing their comfy sweats to school drop-offs and pick-ups and the grocery store. "Pull yourself together," they cried. "Have a little self-respect!"

This mentality crossed the gender lines. Some of you may remember this exchange from Seinfeld:

Jerry: Again with the sweatpants?
George: What? I'm comfortable.
Jerry: You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world: "I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable."

Sweatpants are the universal wardrobe shorthand for sloth and lassitude.

And so yoga pants stepped in. A little more flattering (usually) and trendy (then), yoga pants were embraced by the sweatpants moms who were interested in looking a little sharper. And for awhile, the Fashionable Moms stayed off our case.

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Now yoga pants aren't good enough. Slammed as being 'lazy' and 'sloppy' and 'too revealing', yoga pants are now the target of the Fashion Police.

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I'll agree that while this look is pretty hawt,

it might be a little risqué for school pick-ups and drop-offs...

not that I look like that in my white yoga pants and matching tube top 

when I pull up at my kids' school...

"Throw on a pair of skinny jeans," they counsel. "...a great fitting pair of jeans is just as comfortable as a pair of yoga pants..." I don't know about you, but I've never found this to be a universal truth. Furthermore, "a great fitting pair of jeans" is really, really hard to find and often can break the budget. A decent pair of yoga pants, however, is most forgiving concerning figure imperfections and easy on the wallet. I just bought a pair at Target today for $19.99.

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just try to convince me that this is more comfortable than yoga pants.

And even if the jeans were a 'better fit'...

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...is this more 'appropriate' than the white outfit above? It is jeans, after all.

Jeans make my hip hurt. 

I'll be wearing my yoga pants.  At least until I look like the halter top chick in jeans.