Woman in a bottle-green sports top and leggings with gold panels stretching her arm on a city rooftop at golden hour

Activewear · Spring · Summer · Autumn

Bottle-green sports top and leggings with gold panels

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A little gold. For morale. A bottle-green sports top with an old-gold panel at the side, high-waisted leggings with gold inserts at the pocket and the knee, black knit trainers. It's the only gold I'll wear before sunset. Stretch on a rooftop, towel over the shoulder.

Bottle-green training set with flashes of old gold at the ribs, the pocket and the knee, stretched out on a rooftop before the sun goes.

A matching set in bottle green with small inserts of matte gold. The sports top is cropped, seamed like a bodice and cut with a gold wedge at the side. The leggings are high-waisted with a flat front, a gold-lined hip pocket, a gold patch behind the knee and a thin gold piping down the outer leg, plus a reflective stripe on the thigh for the walk home in the dark.

The gold is what keeps it from looking like a uniform. Everything else stays quiet: plain black trainers, a towel over the shoulder, a steel bottle. Good from spring into early autumn, on a roof, a track or the long way round the block.

Green and gold. It looks like I planned the stretch.