Spring fashion trend for gym wear is colorful and outrageous, but in the gym, it’s still just t-shirts and shorts.

At Luke’s Locker on Oak Lawn, the store is filled with the new spring workout gear.

This spring, it’s everything Nike. There’s lots of hot pink, light pink, blue, yellow and green. Everything is supposed to coordinate. The new thing for spring is to match from head to toe. Ideally, that means wearing a hat, a jacket, a shirt, shorts or pants, socks, shoes and a bag in colors that coordinate. It’s very technical.

“Green is next season’s pink,” Ginger Gregory, the manager of Luke’s, said.

So, where is the green?

Just in at Luke’s: a lime green see-through netted shirt with huge holes in it, paired with a bright orange sports bra to go underneath. Or, a bright orange shirt that ties at the waist, but can be lifted up as high as the shoulders as the body heats up during the workout.

“Bright colors and mesh tops are the latest trend in fashion,” Gregory said. “It’s the hot new thing.”

But it’s not at SMU’s Cinco Center. Not at the Park Cities YMCA. Not at Larry North. Not at the Premier Club. At several gyms, people exercising seemed more into their workout than what they were wearing.

At the Cinco Center at SMU, most students don’t really care what they wear. For girls, cheerleading shorts, soccer shorts, T-shirts and basic tank tops are the norm. Guys usually wear T-shirts and basketball shorts. There are a few tank tops, but not many. Nothing fancy, really.

Torie Snyder, a freshman business major, said she wears spaghetti strap shirts to stay cool when she’s working out.

Grant Groher, a sophomore business major, said that he wears whatever is clean. Yesterday it was a bathing suit, he said.

Christine Corkran and her boyfriend Alex Hernandez, both freshmen, work out at the Cinco Center together every day. Corkran said she likes to dress nicely and usually wears Victoria’s Secret or Nike Dri-fit. Her boyfriend said he doesn’t care what he wears, but that he often wears Nike Dri-fit shorts.

“I pick his gym clothes out, though,” Christine said.

At the Park Cities YMCA on Preston, most people wear a T-shirt or tank top with black pants or leggings. People don’t care whether their outfits are designed for different types of exercise.

“I don’t care what I wear,” said Kay Potter, a stay-at-home mom who works out there daily. “I shop at Target and I wear the same clothes to spin and yoga.”

None of the men interviewed said they care what they wear. Half of them couldn’t remember where they bought their clothes.

There are exceptions, though. Most of the personal trainers and aerobic instructors are more into the trendy stuff.

“I care what I wear,” said Amy Rouqette, a YMCA instructor who teaches step aerobics, body pump and yoga classes. “I’m wearing the hot pink Nike shorts from Luke’s.”

Another YMCA instructor, Amy Richardson, agreed that most people there don’t really care what they put on. She said every now and then a woman will come in and work out during her lunch break in a skirt and tennis shoes. Some people even work out in jeans, she said.

Some people are too lazy to put something together, don’t have time to deal with it or are just focused on getting in their workout.

“The Y is more family-oriented,” said Sara Nagler, a member. “It’s mainly people in their 40s. No one really cares. It’s like, ‘drop the kids off at school and then work out.’”

Nagler works out in the gym and takes yoga classes. She said she shops at Oshman’s for the stretchy Nike Dri-fit apparel because it’s comfortable.

Dri-fit is a fabric that gets rid of the moisture or sweat and lets the skin breathe. Nike makes Dri-fit in sports bras, shirts, shorts, pants and yoga pants. People in yoga classes or in the gym say it helps keep them cool during intense workouts.

Several people said that those who exercise at the Premier Club, a three-story exercise facility, near U.S. Highway 75 and Mockingbird, care about what they wear to the gym.

“I used to go to the Premier Club,” Nagler said. “Women would go at night when the men were there. A lot of them would wear full makeup, a trendy outfit and have perfect hair. It’s a meat market.”

Jacquelyn Byer, an SMU student majoring in Political Science, also said the Premier Club is fashion conscience. “I used to work out there,” she said. “But now I go to the Y because it’s more laid back and the people here are more friendly.”

Tanya Bogart, a senior SMU student who works at the Premier Club, said most of the SMU kids or college-age kids that go to the Premiere Club wear T-shirts and pants.

“It’s the older women who are dressing up,” she said.

Some people at the Premier Club wear matching tops and pants. Overall, they’re more coordinated, but there’s no bright lime or orange. There are a lot of Nike mesh shirts in white, charcoal or black. And there are lots of tight-fitting tops and pants.

Mike Larson, a personal trainer at Larry North Total Fitness in Highland Park Village, said people always assume members wear trendy stuff at his facility. But he said they usually just wear T-shirts.

“A lot of times I’ll see clients out at night and won’t even recognize them because they look so much different than they do in the gym,” he said. “I’ll be like, wow.”

Basic black cotton yoga pants are the most popular gym item sold, said employees at Run On, Oshman’s, Luke’s and Capezio, a dance store on Lovers that also sells yoga and gym apparel.

“We don’t sell a lot of the trendy workout stuff,” said Lucy Bottoms, an employee at Oshman’s on Park Lane. “I think today I sold two pink bags and one red coordinating outfit. But it’s usually the basic cotton shorts and plain T-shirts.”

David Martin is an employee at Run On, on Mockingbird. He said the store sells a lot of the technical gym wear in green.

“But the trendy stuff is more popular among the elite runners,” he said. “Basically, I think most people just want to be comfortable.”