# Interesting article today on sweatpants trend or fad

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-today-on-sweatpants-trend-or-fad/998037
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Tags:** fashion-clothing
**Created:** [February 24, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-today-on-sweatpants-trend-or-fad/998037 "2024-02-24T19:43:43Z")
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### Author: ![Jackson99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@Jackson99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackson99)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-today-on-sweatpants-trend-or-fad/998037/13 "2024-02-25T17:01:18Z")

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> [@Most Formal Place You Have Worn Sweatpants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-formal-place-you-have-worn-sweatpants/974516):
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> Before Covid, I only wore sweats to the gym. Even afterward, I would be reluctant to wear them to work or any place more formal than the mall. Yet I know educated people who do wear them at work. I can easily imagine the same people wearing them to weddings or anywhere else. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But what say you?

> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Fwiw, I’ve sometimes posted essentially the same OP here and in other places. Usually i do that when I’m looking for advice, rather than general discussion. But if you hang out in multiple places you may have interests that overlap with the more than one of those places.

Yes some one here said this was posted here before this post.

There is this thread most places you have worn sweatpants but not base on that article I read from what I can tell.

> [@Most Formal Place You Have Worn Sweatpants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-formal-place-you-have-worn-sweatpants/974516):
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> Before Covid, I only wore sweats to the gym. Even afterward, I would be reluctant to wear them to work or any place more formal than the mall. Yet I know educated people who do wear them at work. I can easily imagine the same people wearing them to weddings or anywhere else. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But what say you?

I have not found new article being that this one is old and could be bit off now but looking at the article most of it seems to be in the north east part of the US.

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