sweatpants
Jogging pants are pants that can be worn for jogging and are usually made of sweatshirt fabric. In English they are therefore also called sweat pants. Jogging pants often, but not always, end with a cuff at the bottom of the ankle , so they are long, moderately-wide bloomers .
On the other hand, the term “sweatpants” is used in a slang terms as a synonym for sports trousers . H. for comfortable pants that are worn during sports and leisure activities. They are often part of a sports suit too . The term "sweatpants" does not refer to the short gym shorts .
When it comes to sports pants, a distinction is made between short gym pants and long training pants or jogging pants. In the case of long sports pants, a distinction is mainly made between training pants and jogging pants (in the narrower sense of the word), but there are also various other special sports pants ( kickboxing pants, body pants, tight running pants, etc.). Often the long training or sweatpants are part of a two-piece training or jogging suit. Tracksuits usually consist of a jacket and trousers, the material is often nylon (e.g. parachute silk , shiny fabric - tricot ) or polyester, sometimes with a second layer of fabric inside (lining) made of terrycloth , cotton jersey or mesh. Jogging suits, on the other hand, consist of a sweatshirt or sweat jacket ( both often with a hood ) and trousers made of sweatshirt fabric, the actual sweatpants in the narrower sense of the word. Jogging suits (in the narrower sense) are now also offered as one-piece suits .
Sports pants are produced by almost all sporting goods manufacturers. One-piece sports suits are worn by soccer goalkeepers, for example.
history
The first training pants were produced by Émile Camuset in the 1920s . He was the founder of the French sporting goods manufacturer Le Coq Sportif . The sweatpants were simply knitted gray jersey pants that allowed athletes to stretch and run comfortably.
In 2009, four young Austrians launched the International Jogging Pants Day , which has been celebrated on January 21st ever since.
design
Jogging pants are usually made of cotton fibers or polyester and are often roughly knitted. They are usually elastic at the waist. There are jogging pants with and without pockets. Jogging pants are traditionally ash gray, but they now come in many different colors. They are usually wide and " baggy ", which makes them very flexible and comfortable to wear. Warmer versions of the sweatpants are made from fleece . Initially, these practical trousers were only worn for sports and leisure activities. Nowadays, sweatpants come in many different styles, shapes, and materials. Jogging pants are very popular because of their comfort. A variation of the sweatpants are the carrot-shaped body pants with a wide boxer waistband, which were particularly popular in the bodybuilding scene in the 1990s , but are still in production. See also: article bodybuilding, section clothing .
In popular culture
Jogging pants are part of the stereotype of the proletarian outfit. A quote from Karl Lagerfeld from 2012 reads: “Anyone who wears sweatpants has lost control of their life.” On the other hand, after 2010 the fashion industry also produced jeans and chinos with jogging trousers; there were similar cuts as early as the 1980s . In 2014, Lagerfeld surprised at Paris Fashion Week with jogging pants he designed for Chanel .
After the headmistress of a secondary school in Bad Oeynhausen banned sweatpants in 2019 , the feminist author Margarete Stokowski wrote a defense of sweatpants in her Spiegel online column.
Variations
- Fashion sweatpants
- Wind sweatpants
- Tear Away Pants
- Muscle Pants
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sweatpants: The Comfortable Choice. At: asicentral.com. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ The Jogging Pants Day is a Graz invention. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
- ↑ The History of International Jogging Pants Day. At: jogginghosentag.de. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ Jogging pants on the Chanel catwalk. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At: stylebook.de. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ Margarete Stokowski, DER SPIEGEL: Sweatpants Ban at School: Praise for Sweatpants - Column - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
