Cripes, that's an odd choice for such an important public event. Did she think no one in all of France could read English?
Even if she wanted comfortable clothes for sitting a long time in a chilly rink, there are plenty of tremendously chic tunic-legging combinations out there. A woman in my office today is wearing an amazing jersey tunic in charcoal-and-black horizontal stripes, very graceful, paired with black leggings. She looks professional yet stylishly progressive, and any camera could capture her image and not embarrass her. Surely Annissina, a woman located in the country considered the world's fashion epicenter, could have found some completely stretchable clothes that made a better effect than that strange article.