Getting our (yoga) panties in a wad - The Daily Camera

There are plenty of reasons to hate Lululemon these days.

In fact, there's an online petition calling out founder Chip Wilson on his recent comments blaming his expensive yoga pants' questionable quality on women's not-fit-enough bodies. Somehow, his pretentious projectile vomit has topped Abercrombie's desperate assertion that only hot, thin people should shop there.

The difference is no one cared about Abercrombie's opinion, because no one has actually shopped there since that cheesy "Abercrombie and Fitch" pop song that I am happy to admit I had to Google because I don't remember it. "Summer Girls" by LFO, 1999. Whatever. Go ahead. Tell everyone how cool you are. Little dog syndrome.

Lululemon founder Chip Wilson, flanked by wife Shannon, started a firestorm when he said in a recent interview that "some women s bodies just actually don t work for (his company s yoga pants)." ("Street Smart"/Bloomberg Television)

My condolences to the Boulder Lululemon store, which I would personally never sign a petition against, but Lulu was at the height of its popularity when its founder started burning down yoga bridges. And there is something detached about a fitness-apparel company refusing to offer clothing sizes that fit the average or even below-average American body. As if being fit and healthful is an elitist lifestyle, and not something that everybody deserves or can obtain.

Not to mention, it's not smart business to exclude the very population that would benefit the most from that expensive yoga-pant fabric that makes your bum look like a halved cantaloupe (this knowledge will come in handy near the end of this column) -- a population that would appreciate the extra motivation of looking great in sweatpants to encourage a more active lifestyle.

You don't need me to repeat Lulu's bad press.

But here's something new that I can offer to this party: real life test wears of seven different popular brands of yoga pants -- and my final determination of which product truly is the best bang for your buck. I mean, politics aside, if I'm going to blow $100 on a piece of fabric to swamp all over, I want to know it's going to have a good cost-to-use ratio and not bust at the seams.

Oh, and Chip? My thighs are fit enough to squat press even your ego. So don't blame my cantaloupe.