Dear God, why?
I don’t wear sweats, pretty much ever, but I will equate them to my pajama pants. I wear them indoors to be comfy, and maybe to take out the trash. On rare, rare occasion I will wear them if I am feeling terrible and just running a quick errand that usually doesn’t require I get out of the car for more than a minute.
1984 called and it wants its pants back.
IMHO, sweatpants aren’t even good for working out- they’re usually cotton, which is a terrible fabric for workout gear b/c it absorbs moisture. The only good purpose for sweatpants is wearing them in the winter, after you have changed out of your work clothes at the end of the day and you want to lounge in front of the TV. And yes, whenever I see someone out in public in sweats, I assume that they’re telling the world they have stopped caring about their appearance.
A man may disrespect his wife by how he dresses? Man, if you turned that around, you’d be seriously sexist.
I probably wouldn’t wear sweats out apartment hunting, but I don’t think it would really matter. I’m the consumer in those situations–they’re there to impress me, not the other way around. Then again, there’s something of a housing glut where I live–lots of cheap land west of town with more infrastructure than we know what to do with. It might be different in New York or San Francisco.
Really? So if I were your wife and wore very skimpy trashy clothes, that wouldn’t be disrespectful to you? How about if you feel very strongly that I shouldn’t do something, and I had no consideration for your feelings about it whatsover, and just continued to blunder along stubbornly, claiming my rights to do so as the consumer? Not disrespectful?
Hey, you said it, not me.
That’s not an answer. Do you think those things would not be disrespectful to you?
Nope. Her life, her choice.
Ditto.
Your wife, your choice, too, I guess, but I rather like consideration for my thoughts and feelings in a spouse. I’m goofy like that.
Ma’am, it’s sweatpants, not pimp-slapping your mother.
More to the point, any woman who tries to “make me go home and change” can consider herself dumped. I rather like consideration for my thoughts and feelings in a spouse as well.
Just to clarify my remarks: if the OP really means that her spouse was seriously endangering their opportunity for a nice place, then I do agree with her. That makes a diffrerence.
A landlord is not going to rent to a guy in sweatpants? I could see that at a high end place but maybe not most places.
A landlord is concerned about how potential renters will care for his/her property. They don’t want to rent to careless slobs. Wearing sweatpants in public (in most cases) makes you look like a careless slob.
Yes, a landlord might rent to a person in sweats, but wearing them will probably hurt your chances of getting the place you want.
The first part of your post gets a pass. I will walk to the corner store at 7 am for milk wearing sweat pants. The second well, I wear jeans most of the time Im not at work, usually with a blouse or a sweater. At work I wear uniforms. Church, or interviews, or dinners out get dressy pants. I think jeans and a blouse with shoes not flip flops would be acceptable for apartment housing.
I do think there’s a culture gap on this issue. In major metro areas, housing is at such a premium that landlords may have multiple applicants for every single unit they have open. In that case, it’s more like a job interview, and wearing sweats may well be suicidal.
I’ve never lived in a major metro. I’ve lived in small midwestern cities my whole life–with the exception of a very unfortunate 18 months in Erie, Pennsylvania, which is only a few miles from being midwestern. In these towns, land tends to be cheap (there’s always some farmer on the outskirts of town who retires and sells his spread to a housing developer) and housing is plentiful. The last place I rented I got on a phone call and leased sight unseen–granted, I knew the place already. As such, landlords are really working hard for full occupancy. It’s a buyers’ market, and it really doesn’t matter what you’re wearing.
Sweatpants are awful. I don’t even own any. Weirdly enough my most comfortable pair of pants is also one of my nicest–I have these designer skinny jeans in black that look awesome but are super soft (they’re technically not jeans, I guess, because there’s no denim but they look like jeans).
When I rented places there was always a surplus so I doubt they cared much about who they rented to. As long as you didn’t look like death warmed over or were bleeding you got the place.
I didn’t even own a pair for a decade. Then I had surgery and it was so much easier to wear them while I recovered. I had nice-ish ones that I wore to work until I wasn’t afraid of a zipper rubbing on my scars.
I have a couple pairs now. They are for working out, doing stuff around the house, or emergency back up on laundry day.
Even really nice, really expensive ones just to me are ugly. I don’t care if your sweats cost more than my outfit, to me it still looks trashy.
And the trend seems to be winding down, but I LOATHED the ones that were fashionable for a while with the words across the ass. Hey. you’re not juicy if you’re an adult on a date wearing sweats to a nice restaurant.
Can I wear my cute yoga capris out in public? Need answer fast!
Screw you guys. I heart flip-flops and I will continue to wear them everywhere I go. Well, except work. They get grumpy when I do that.
But sweatpants? Ew.