Beyond the Barre: Style Your Workout Wardrobe with Leotards
Introduction: Leotard is timeless and elegant while it’s always overtaken by leggings and sports bras in fitness fashion. Even the leotards are bouncing back as they move out of their dance or gymnastic confines into the sphere of fashionable sportswear. This guest post discusses the coming back of leotards in the activewear world, covers the historical background of this clothing item, shows its functionality, examines whether it can be worn outside the fitness studio, presents new designs of leotards for modern activewear, stresses that everybody should Section 1: A Brief History of Leotards In order to fully understand what made leotards fashionable again in the 1990’s, it is important to look at their history as discussed above. First, our journey takes us back to the nineteenth century where the French acrobat, Jules Leotard gave the clothing its name. The history of leotards will be followed right from their humble beginnings in the circuses, through to when they were adop...