Gone are the days of the black yoga pants! Instead fitness devotees are moving to the patterned legging from pretty patterns to totally ridiculous and even some emoticons.
Before you become a skeptic, it seems most women who didn’t engage with the patterns but would just stick to the solids and moved from black to gray eventually tried out a “gateway” legging in black based print.
Move over Lululemon as the new trend is seek out the smaller athletic wear companies, like Onzie and Zara Terez, and Candida Maria.
The busier the print, the more flattering it is, because the eye follows its movement, proponents say. “Prints hide everything and enhance all the right parts,” says Onzie owner Kimberly Swarth. She says a high-quality fabric keeps a print from looking stretched on larger parts of the leg. Ms. Burke says Onzie’s Malibu design looks great on because the pattern’s darkest part is high on the leg, with lighter flowers and sky lower down. To see the full story, visit The Wall Street Journal.
