How I Learned to Choose the Right Pilates Outfit (From Embarrassment to Comfort)
How did I go from "just wearing whatever and practicing" to carefully choosing my Pilates outfits (a somewhat amusing but very real process)? If you had asked me a few years ago, "What would you wear for Pilates?" I'm pretty sure I'll be rummaging through the closet while replying to you: "Just make it move, okay?" Yes, I'm the kind of person who would wear an old university T-shirt and loose sweatpants to class, and confidently think that I'm very laid-back. One day, while doing a particularly elegant (theoretically) movement on the reformer, I ended up with the clothes sliding off completely, and I ended up looking like a cat wrapped in a blanket. The coach gave me a glance, said nothing, but that glance I still remember to this day. That day when I got home, all I had in my mind was: Alright, it's time to take this Pilates outfit thing seriously. That day, for the first time, I realized: Clothes can really "hold things back" In that class, we did a very basic movement called "roll-up". It sounds quite simple - just lie down slowly and then sit up slowly. But here comes the problem. The waist of that pair of pants is not too low, but it's not too high either. When I rolled my…
