Increase Your Happiness: Wear These Pants

Whew! Is December over yet? Guru girl has been on the run, trying to get everything done. I haven’t broken my cardinal rule: always wear mascara. But I have broken my friend Jane’s, which is: you can’t wear yoga pants all day.

You actually can wear yoga pants all day. But it’s not pretty and worse, I’m not fooling anyone that I’m actually going to the gym… after the mall and the grocery store and the post office and the school.

I wear yoga pants because they’re easy and comfortable. This is precisely why I fought the skinny jean trend for so long. Because skinny jeans are the exact opposite.

Until now.

I just found some skinny jeans that I love so much I have given them a nickname. I call them my happy pants. Because it makes me happy just to put them on.

That’s how fantastic they are. The Ann Taylor skinny jean is as easy and comfortable as your favorite yoga pant. The jeans are made from some miracle material that is somehow stretchy, forgiving and beyond flattering.

They are genius! Pair them with black boots and a slouchy shirt and – presto! – you have a stylish outfit that’s as comfortable as your gym gear.

I got my happy pants last week and have tested them out on several different days. There’s no butt or knee bagging out issue, as can sometimes happen with stretchy materials. They also look fine if you have to do a mid-day switch into tennies and a fleece to walk the dog &/or trundle stuff around in the house that you still haven’t fully unpacked.

Handsome and hard-living, these are the 007 of pants

 – the Sean Connery 007, not that creepy Roger Moore.

The picture doesn’t do them justice. Throw caution to the wind and order them online – if you do it soon, Ann Taylor’ll give you 50% off your whole order… which means your happy pants will only cost you $45, a fact that will make you even happier. And Moneypenny too. (Click this link to go to ann taylor's website to view the modern knit slim pants.)