HERE'S WHAT'S IRRITATING ME

 What I am mostly irritated about is the clothes.  Not all of the clothes, but the workout clothes!  Girls nowadays have so many cool, comfortable, and fashionable things to choose from before even thinking about heading out to the gym.  This was just not the case years ago, and it is not fair.

Remember the 80’s?  Back then, the workout style was leg warmers.  LEG WARMERS PEOPLE!!  The idea that someone would work out actually wearing a sweater on each leg makes no sense, and yet, that is exactly what we were stuck with.   But worse than that – leg warmers only look good on tall thin people.  So for the rest of us, putting on a pair of leg warmers was essentially saying to the world, “Look at my legs, I've added an inch all around in a bright color!”   

The nineties brought us the sports bra (which was invented in 1977, but we all know how long something takes to get from invention to your local Target store).  That was helpful, but I was still stuck with t-shirts and whatever crappy pair of shorts I didn’t want to actually wear that day.

But in the past 10 to 15 years, the world of “active wear” has exploded, and this, yes this is why I am irritated.  I’m not irritated because the active wear is so colorful and fun and cute, I’m irritated because I am now approaching 50, and  keep wondering if I should be shopping from the same catalogues as the girls half my age.