“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat,” said the late creative director of Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld. “You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
Thinking back to the last pair of sweatpants I bought, he wasn’t wrong. It was the height of Melbourne’s first lockdown and in many respects, life did not feel particularly well controlled. So I ordered a pair of black, nylon spray pants with an elastic waist and zips at the ankles from an online retailer.
