What Is Bathleisure?
Here's What Happened When I Pulled a Rihanna and Only Wore Bathrobes For a Week
Friday: The Most Casual Friday There Ever Was
How does one make the already informal bathleisure trend appropriate for Casual Friday? By slipping on a unicorn bathrobe ($28), duh. I match the baby pink cover-up with fire-engine red Blocked Boots ($205) from Jaggar.
It's my last day of bathleisure, and I'm feeling a little nostalgic, so I reflect on my week as a walking shower caddy. Maybe I spend too much time on the internet, but it was hard for me not to associate the rise of bathleisurewear with the #MeToo movement.
It's undeniable that women who wear bathleisure are throwing up two glorious middle fingers at society's frankly bullsh*t expectation that we should look pretty and polished at all times.
After all, so many of the sexual harassment horror stories we've read in the past few months start with something like, "He opened the door to his hotel room wearing just a bathrobe, and then . . ." Perhaps bathlesiure is a sartorial coup, where women are taking control of a narrative that too often results in their victimization. At the very least, by putting on a robe and saying, "F*ck it, this is how I look today," women are attacking society's frankly bullsh*t expectation that we should look pretty and polished at all times.
On a personal level, after five days of touting terry cloth, I have gotten better sleep. My stress acne is in check for the first time in weeks. Heck, I actually smiled at my M15 bus driver. Is this what life becomes once you allow yourself to chill the hell out?
I've since traded my loose robes for skinny jeans and control tops, but I've kept my bathleisure mentality. After my experiment, I requested a work-from-home day for the first time ever. That may not sound like much by itself. But as I curled up with my laptop, draped in a plush robe and sitting atop a throne of comforters, I think I attained the closest feeling to nirvana this stressed-out b*tch will ever get.
