No one in their right mind doesn’t enjoy the breathe-easy benefits of a drawstring waist or the cocooning sensation of a hoodie
In the season that brought us the It Tracksuit, it is a stone-cold fact that dressing down is the new dressing up. Yay! Right? Well, not necessarily. DDITNDU sounds like good news: it sounds like permission to wear flat shoes all day, and/or justification for alternating two sweatshirts and calling it a Work Wardrobe. Sadly, it’s nowhere near as simple as that.
If you look gobsmackingly beautiful in, say, nylon tracksuit bottoms and a sports bra, then DDITNDU is good news. You can also get lost, sharpish. If you are an actual human being, then DDITNDU is a Trojan horse. A fleece-lined Trojan horse, true, but still one whose gifts are not what they seem. The mantra promises an easy life, but then lets you down when you look in the mirror and realise jersey sweatpants look glamorous only with an extra five inches of leg, and that, short of an injection of supermodel DNA, the only way you can add five inches of leg is to wear uncomfortable high heels, which sort of kill the loungewear mood.
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