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Will need some more gym and fitness clothes, especially of the colourful variety. Any suggestions of brands and stores?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Puma is pretty alright from my experience. They are based in Germany, pretty large and mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Erima is a German company (that's been around for 115 years!!) They have affordable high quality workout clothes. In all kinds of colours, they are often used as kits for a specific team or club, but of course you can also just buy it for yourself.

Decathlon is French, so that's an option as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Buy cotton shirts/shorts. Avoid technical fabric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm curious, any reason why? I thought technical fabric was supposed to be better for sports

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Two reasons:

  • It is plastic. It will degrade into microplastics and will end up.. in places where it shouldn't. Water (from cleaning), inside of humans (and other animals) due to drinking water, breathing, etc.
  • They are much harder to clean and keep hygienic. They get smelly much faster. They smell worse within a workout and they are hard to clean between workouts.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably the use of plastic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Have you looked at Decathlon? They're French.