Yoga WEAR

Part - One

by Maya T. and Lena Stefanovic

Courtesy of Wellicious.com

I wanted to know what kind of yoga wear would make me feeling the best while doing my poses and I didn’t want to spend more money than necessary, thus Comfort and Price were my first criteria when I set myself into yoga wear buying mission!

Lena (our Stylist) and me, we started our research and we tried tons of yoga clothes.
After asking many yoga devotees (including me) what they want the most from yoga clothes we narrowed down 3 requests that almost everybody expressed when yoga wear is in Question: 

 - comfort,

 - fit and 

 - fabric that breathes.

However, more we did research more we were aware of the particularities that we need to check before we make a decision.

• We like comfort but we want to look stylish
• Fabric should ‘breathe’ and cool down while in asana but also keep us warm while in the relaxation!
• Yoga wear should fit but be loose too! 

• Then - we all want to avoid harming environment, mostly animals.
• We like Fair Trade certified clothes and equally we like to have clothes made in our own countries, employing our own people.
• We want to have clothes that are made from organic and natural fibers as well as from recycled materials.
• We want to have soft, flattering yoga clothes that hold shape during yoga class

Dedication Jacket by Athleta

We looked at many companies that are solely or partly involved in producing Yoga wear:

1. Some like N---*, Reebok, Calvin Klein or Gap are well known sport wear producers, with hundreds of stores all over the world. 

They are all equally good in how their yoga wear is made, their fit is great and, surprisingly, their prices are pretty equal and not as high as someone would think they could be.

In this group I like Gap and their ATHLETA. I like their tops for the simple reason that they fit my body but they are loose at the same time and mostly because fabric is so thin that feels great and dries so fast. Moreover, GAP has another line – Old Navy – inexpensive and quite good.

2. We were more drawn to this group of Yoga wear producers – smaller, younger yet firmly established companies such as:

Wellicious (from United Kingdom),  

Courtesy of Wellicious.com

LVR fashion ( USA), 

Oysho (Spain),  

Solow Sport,

Purusha People,

Prana ,  

NUX ,  

Lily Lotus ,  

Mika Yoga wear (all from USA),  

Lolë women,  

Lululemon 

Joe Fresh ( all from Canada)

(Joe Fresh - being the cheapest and not at all less stylish)

These companies are mostly focused on Yoga and Pilates, their production is smaller and definitely more oriented towards organic cotton, cashmere, recycled materials and they are able to adjust their clothing line faster.

After all, Lena did her research among her friends in Switzerland and France and me here in Canada and USA – and we got our winners: 

Wellicious and LVR Fashion from our second group and ATHLETA (GAP) and N--- from the first group of Yoga wear manufacturers.

Please read more about these companies in our next post.

Tee by Purusha People, USA

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