Remember black trousers? Heck, remember jeans? Those were the good old days. Now that you’re a mom, yoga pants are much more essential to your wardrobe than either of these staples of yesteryear.
Below, I’ve detailed why your Lululemons (and by that I mean the Target yoga pants you tell everyone are from Lululemon) are your single most important motherhood fashion accessory. Even more important than your diaper bag.
1. You never know when you’ll want to exercise.
I mean, the urge hasn’t occurred yet this year, but that’s not important. What’s important is that if you’re wearing jeans, you definitely wouldn’t be able to randomly start jogging … around the grocery store, since that’s the only place you go.
2. You need something for your mother-in-law to make comments about.
The failures of your hair, your house, your parenting, and your cooking have become boring. Asking you if you own any “actual clothing” though, that never gets old.
3. Your husband likes them.
Remember that one time he said so? You might have been crying because of what your mother-in-law said, but you’re pretty sure he meant it.
4. They go with everything.
From your T-shirt to your sweatshirt to that sweater of your husband’s. Lest we forget the footwear, they go perfectly fine with flip flops, Uggs, and even sneakers when you want to pretend you’re power-walking versus pushing the baby in a stroller lackadaisically down the cul-de-sac.
5. They are all-weather wear.
Neither hail nor snow shall stop them from performing their appointed task, which is, namely, making you not naked at preschool pickup.
6. You can get them in any color.
Of course you only wear them in black and gray, but you’re thinking of wearing the navy blue ones in the back of your drawer soon. Like when you lose five pounds.
7. They eliminate your muffin top.
And by eliminate, I mean “don’t show it.” Not eliminate like, say, eating fewer muffins would do.
8. You can dance in them.
Specifically to “The Wheels on the Bus” and other tunes that end up lasting 15 minutes because each child needs a turn to be picked up by Mommy and be swung around. Even your 60 pound child. (Why do you have the muffin top with all that damn exercise, anyway? Oh mysterious and unjust universe.)
9. You can dress them up for nighttime.
By this I mean you can wear a macaroni and string necklace to the dinner table at 6 PM while you dine on fish sticks with the kids.
1o. They give you one less choice.
You choose what to cook, what activities are best for the kids, who to call once a year to babysit, and how to guilt trip your husband into letting you sleep late on Sunday. Why add more decisions to the mix with multiple types of pants? Streamline your life, friend.
Now the next time your hubby shoots your yoga pants a look and carefully asks what you’re planning to wear for the holiday card photo, laugh loud and proud and say, “You’re looking at it, darling!” Maybe for the occasion, you’ll even break out the navy ones.
Image source: Dear Kate via ABC News