The Dos and Don’ts of Wearing Yoga Pants Around Town

Can you believe yoga pants are one of the most divisive pieces of clothing in a woman’s wardrobe? If you wear them outside the gym, everyone and their mother has an opinion, even lawmakers. In February 2015, for example, Montana state representative David Moore (R-Missoula) introduced a bill to expand the state’s indecent exposure law by outlawing any piece of clothing that “gives the appearance or simulates” the pelvic area, buttocks, genitals or female nipple — this would include yoga pants. If the bill passed, a third indecent exposure fraction would have warranted a  fine and up to five years in jail. Thankfully, the House Judiciary Committee rejected the proposal.

“Yoga pants should be illegal in public anyway,” Moore told the Associated Press. “I want Montana to be known as a decent state.”