Lululemon founder Chip Wilson scorned for saying his pants ‘don’t work for some'

[PlayfulAlex]

yes, it works because her legs are visually proportionate to her body.
a 300 pounder couldn't pull off this look…I think that's what the Chipper was saying.

Yup, I'm gonna have to agree with you, manna, and the Chipper...but if a bigger girl wants to wear tights with a sweater dress, she can still pull it off, with a little care!

 

[VanessaofBC]

YeeHaw

if you can make it to 0:20 you have seen enough.

 

[sdw]

Shelley Fralic has a piece in the Vancouver Sun where she admits that Chip Wilson is right - - - lululemon isn't for some women

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion...hip+Wilson+free+yoga+pants/9197083/story.html

How is it possible I have found myself in the position of defending Chip Wilson?

How is it possible that the ballsy and brash founder and chairman of Vancouver-based Lululemon Athletica has engendered sympathy from someone who once wrote that she was boycotting his stores because his clerks were snotty and his trendy yoga wear — it’s just stretchy fabric, for Gawd’s sake, so get over yourself — was too precious, and pricey?

How is it possible that anyone can be so arrogant that, clearly embracing the adage that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, would send that columnist flowers?

How is it possible that Wilson, not known for pulling his punches or adhering to the stifling culture of politically correct discourse, can actually be right?

But, he was, a few months back when women began complaining that his firm’s yoga pants were, um, rather see-through in the posterior region when worn by fuller-figured customers. Sheer, in fact. So sheer that men were reportedly lining up in formation at the windows of local yoga classes.

. . .

His crime may be an overabundance of chutzpah, but Wilson was right about those yoga pants. They look awful on tubbies who try to squeeze themselves into their tight confines and hit the streets like so many walking, talking lumpy sausage casings, providing way too much anatomical information on their way to the downward dog.

Wilson’s exact words, uttered during a Bloomberg TV interview, were: “The thing is that women will wear seat belts that don’t work, or they’ll wear a purse that doesn’t work or, quite frankly, some women’s bodies don’t actually work for (his company’s yoga pants).”

. . .

I own too many Lululemon hoodies. I have worn my Lululemon raincoat for years. But I have a generous derrière and, frankly, when I put on a pair of Lululemon yoga pants, my caboose looks like two overfed cats fighting their way out of a spandex sack.

They just don’t look good on me. Neither, any more, do mini skirts. Or bikinis. And no one, except maybe David Beckham, looks good in a Speedo. This is reality. This is life. Like Chip Wilson, we need to get over ourselves.

 

[Cami Parker]

In response to this guy....who's an ass.... I suggest all women in Vancouver boycott lululemon PERMANENTLY!!! :eyebrows:

 

[Cami Parker]

That's really mean, and I think absolutely disgusting, for a woman to talk about other women's bodies in such a way.... Really despicable

"His crime may be an overabundance of chutzpah, but Wilson was right about those yoga pants. They look awful on tubbies who try to squeeze themselves into their tight confines and hit the streets like so many walking, talking lumpy sausage casings, providing way too much anatomical information on their way to the downward dog."


Everyone knows I hate women in yoga pants but it's nothing to do with their bodies... It's the walking around in glorified sweat pants aspect that really gets me lol

 

[Cami Parker]

No doubt! Let's all just put it all out there...
I'd honestly love to live in a naked city
I think it would be awesome
I'm jealous if my dog that he gets to leave the house and walk around the city naked everyday lol

good idea!
the outfit you are wearing in your signature would be my suggestion as a substitute for Lulu-wear