A gym in the Welsh town of Bridgend is celebrating its 80th year of encouraging women to don their ladies' fitness clothing.

The Bridgend Fitness League, formerly known as the League of Health and Beauty, has been teaching women how to do Bagot Stack, a part-dance, part-exercise practice which provides a work out for the whole body.

According to South Wales Echo, ladies aged between 20 and 70 still frequently attend the gym classes and all enjoy the opportunity to exercise as part of a community.

Cardiff resident Margaret, who joined the club when she was a young girl, told the newspaper: "I was always athletic at school. In my younger days, I did baseball and netball too. But I went along to the League of Health and Beauty, as it was known then, and got hooked."

Actress Mary Kate Olsen was recently spotted leaving a yoga class in the Brentwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles, but was criticised for not wearing suitable ladies yoga clothing.

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