What Is Bathleisure?
Here's What Happened When I Pulled a Rihanna and Only Wore Bathrobes For a Week
Monday: The (Sleepy) Urban Cowgirl
It's 11:30 p.m. on the Sunday before I start the Great Bathleisure Experiment of 2017. My roommate watches as I pair this J.Crew Flannel Robe ($89) with some slippers. "You look like a mom from the '90s going out to check the mailbox," she says.
I don't know exactly what that means, but it doesn't sound like something Rihanna would be into. To glam things up, I decide to pick a theme inspired by the robe's checkered pattern: Western-wear. I pair the robe with a Stetson Rockway Wide-Brim Fedora ($110) and decade-old cowboy boots.
When I get to the office, our POPSUGAR Moms editor compliments me on my "wrap dress," thus kicking off a day when no one knows I'm actually wearing a bathrobe. It's a little bit of a letdown. I want to look like Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in New York Minute, but instead I end up resembling the fashun version of Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
On the plus side, this piece of cotton is almost obscenely comfortable to wear. I'm supposed to meet up with a friend after work, but I'm so cozy that I sleep through dinner.
