If you are a winter runner, you need the Keep The Fleece Tights! I ordered these on Tuesday and received them Thursday and have been trying to photograph them ever since. The thing that I love most about these is exactly what makes them impossible to photograph. They are a completely matte black!! 

Keep The Fleece Tights

I am not currently a winter runner, although I have been in the past so my review is with running requirements in mind, but I’m primarily wanting these as casual wear and for ice skating with my kids. I purchased these strictly as a cozy legging alternative for winter. I just love the edgy moto detailing with the ribbed contrasting and zipper pockets. Often with Lululemon tech fleece tights, I’ve loved them online but when I see them in person they have that cheap looking sheen to them and they don’t work well for casual wear. You also get a lot of sheerness with the more shiny tech fleece Somehow these are perfectly matte and dark black and opaque in a deep squat. These are the perfect combination of style and function. 

The Keep The Fleece Tights are brushed soft technical fleece on the inside and they are incredibly cozy, but they have the stretch that regular leggings have, and good running compression. I believe last years tech fleece tights fit really small and lacked stretch. These fit TTS on me and I took my usual size 10 in them. 

The one hesitation a lot of you had is that these are quite long at 28″, which is a full-length pant, but they have the zipper cuff detail at the bottom so you couldn’t hem them, and you get a little bit of pooling at the bottom. I don’t mind the look actually as it gives these more of a straight leg pant look. The zipper unzips so you get a wider hemline, but the opening is lined with material so you aren’t introducing cold air. 

The warmth of these is great for my climate for full winter running, but Vancouver only gets to about -10*c at the coldest so I cannot speak to how it would do in brutally cold weather. They are also really nicely breathable.

I love these so much and great basic tech fleece tights only come around briefly once per year, and some years they haven’t been great, so I opted to go ahead and buy two pairs in these. 

If you guys have tried these on or purchased them, please share your thoughts on them in the comments. 

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Yesterday I made the decision to return the Corsetry Tights I got last week and figured I wouldn’t be buying any of The Royal Ballet Collection, but I tried this hoodie on and just love it! The Lululemon Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Hoodie is so incredibly soft and cozy. First I have to say that I really did love the Corsetry tights and they were just beautiful on. I particularly loved the color Soot paired with all the feminine seam details. The reason I decided to return them is they were almost too beautiful to wear to Olympic Weightlifting or Crossfit. Not that they aren’t technically suitable but I am most comfortable in crops, and I basically just wear my basic black In Movement Crops every time. I very rarely wear my tights casually and I just don’t have the body type that I would feel confident wearing ‘look at me’ overly pretty tights, especially these days. It’s basic black tights for me because most of the time I want to blend in unless I’m dressed fancy. So, I returned them because I do not want to own museum pieces that just get archived.   

Lululemon Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Hoodie

When I saw that the store had both colors of the Principal Dancer Hoodie in my size I was really excited to try it on. I got super excited when I saw that the entire inside of the jacket is fully sherpa fleece lined and that the gold zipper detail really popped. 

The Style Details

I know that this sweater is proportionally odd and a bit overwhelming on my short, petite and curvy frame but I don’t know…I just really like it. The bell sleeves are long but they look really cute and they don’t bother me at all. You can hide an entire Starbucks coffee in this sleeve! I love the volume of the hood ties and how it plays against the volume of the sleeve. I especially love that with the twinkle of the gold zipper pull and tie ends.  Online the hem of this jacket flares out into an a-line more than it does on me but the online models are never pear-shaped. The length of the jacket is butt-covering which is so great for throwing on over said basic black tights. This is the perfect hoodie to throw on at 6 am school drop off for volleyball practice with my hair up in a top bun or uncombed like I have it here today

The Fit Details

I’m not a huge fan of thicker scubas because they are usually way too warm for me but this is perfect because it’s lightweight, soft, cozy and stretchy. 

The jacket I purchased is my TTS 10, and I think you could easily size down in it if you are less pear-shaped. I didn’t bother trying a size down or a size up in this. 

When I saw this sweater online I initially gravitated to the dark grey one but trying it on in store both my daughter and me preferred the lighter grey. The details of the jacket are much more obvious in the light grey and kind of get lost on the dark grey. 

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