Sage Botanical Leggings

You have a drawer of leggings that are fine. Black, grey, another black. You pull a pair on, you stretch, you take them off, and none of it makes you any more likely to get on the mat tomorrow. Fine is the reason your mat stayed rolled up last Tuesday.

Sage Botanical is the pair you leave out on the chair instead of folding away. Hand-drawn sage leaves scattered over warm cream, printed edge to edge, so the pattern runs across the seams rather than stopping at them. They are high waisted yoga leggings built around one idea: that what you put on should feel like a small occasion, not laundry.

What you are getting

• 83% polyester, 17% spandex. Four-way stretch that holds its shape through a deep lunge and does not go baggy at the knee by the third wear.
• High-waisted, with a double-layer waistband. It sits above the navel and stays there through a forward fold, so you are not reaching down mid-pose to pull them back up.
• Skinny fit. Cut close through the calf and ankle, so nothing bunches under a bent knee when you sit back into a kneeling stretch.
• Printed all over, including the waistband and the back. The sage pattern does not stop at the hip or die on the rear panel, which is the half of the legging you never see and everyone behind you does.

Why these high waisted yoga leggings stay up

A high rise only earns its name if the band has structure. A single thin layer of fabric folds over the moment you hinge at the hip, then walks itself down your waist for the rest of the session. This waistband is doubled, so it holds its line through folds, lunges and anything that puts your head below your hips. The other half of the answer is size. A band stretched to its limit rolls; a band with a little room to sit does not.

The honest part about all-over printing

These are printed onto a white base fabric, and two things follow from that. Stretched hard, over a deep squat for instance, the print can look slightly lighter where the fabric opens up. And a thin white line can show at the seams where two printed panels meet. That is how every all-over-print legging is made, ours included. If a perfectly solid colour at full stretch matters more to you than the pattern does, buy a dyed legging instead. We would rather you were happy than sold.

Sizing: they run small

They run small. If you are between sizes, size up. This is the single most common reason anyone sends a pair back, and it is avoidable in one click before you order.

Who this is for

For you if you stretch at home, you are bored of black, and you want the thing you reach for to feel like a choice rather than a default. Not for you if you need a compression-grade, single-colour legging that reads flat under studio lighting at full stretch.

Tomorrow morning the decision about what to put on stops being a shrug. Shipping is free across the United States: 2-7 business days to make your pair, then 2-5 in transit. If anything arrives misprinted or damaged, send one photo within 14 days and we replace it. Pick your size, size up if you are between two, and add them to the cart.