Womens Running Shorts To Running Skirts
With the warm weather fast approaching, more and more women are pulling out their running gear. Ready to start running in summer style. A quick look into ladies running shorts styles for 2010 shows a trend toward running skirts and skorts, especially on the 5K, 10K, and half-marathon scenes. Women runners are responding favorably to the fun, hip designs, bold colors, and “girly-girl” look of running skirts.
Women’s running short styles have remained relatively consistent throughout the years, focusing on comfort and functionality. Until recently, running short choices consisted primarily of compressions shorts or track-style shorts. Lengths, colors, and fabric choices would change each season, but for the most part running short styles did not. Style was sacrificed for the sake of performance.
Then along came running skirts, also called skorts (since they have a compression boy-short sewn in underneath). Running skirts opened a whole new fashion window for women runners, bored with the conventional running short styles. Running skirt designers have quickly obliged to the recent popularity of running skirts supplying fun designs like: plaid, polka dots, camouflage, and floral designs. Color choices are vast, appealing to a wide range of women. Skirt colour options are anywhere from classic black to bright neon orange.
Running skirts have become popular in the running event world. Women runners participating in 5K, 10K, and half-marathon races have been seen sporting the new hip look of running skirts. Friends are purchasing matching running skirts for running events like the Disney World Princesses half marathon. Teams, like Moms in Motion, are also finishing competitions in matching team skirts. Celebrity runners have fueled the running skirt fire by appearing in custom designed running skirts.
With the popularity of the running skirt on the rise, big manufacturers like Nike, ASICS, and Brooks are continuing to perfect the comfort and functionality of the running skirt; performance properties that were once assumed only by traditional women’s running shorts. This is great news for women who want fashionable style options while running. The 2010 running skirt movement is expected to grow exponentially as the warm summer months lure more runners into events or a leisurely jog outside.
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