# Pandemic poll: Are you wearing pants?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 9, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452 "2020-04-09T19:10:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/1 "2020-04-09T19:10:18Z")
No one likes having to wear pants. The pandemic, having forced many people to stay home, has given them the freedom to not wear proper pants, and either to lounge about in pyjama pants and track pants or, perhaps, wear no pantaloons of any sort. So how are you handling this?
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/2 "2020-04-09T19:12:32Z")
I am not wearing pants! I am also not at home. š
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/3 "2020-04-09T19:17:32Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> I am not wearing pants! I am also not at home. š
No trying to skirt the issue.
Pants being present depend on the house temps.
Cycling shorts or tights outside.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/4 "2020-04-09T19:19:06Z")
> [@RickJay](#):
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> No one likes having to wear pants.
Cite?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/5 "2020-04-09T19:28:39Z")
Although Iāll be in my sweats for a while after getting up, and at night after I shower (especially after working in the yard, or working out), I generally get dressed, including pants, for most of the day. I donāt feel fully awake and āadultā unless Iām dressed, even though the sweats are more comfortable.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/6 "2020-04-09T19:28:52Z")
Coworkers and I are all working at home but do lunch over Zoom and yesterday we got on the topic of pants. One of my friends confessed that sheās unsure if sheās gaining weight because sheās stopped wearing real pants three weeks ago. I asserted that I know Iām not because Iām still wearing pants or jeans with zippers and buttons every day š
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/7 "2020-04-09T19:38:37Z")
I am currently wearing yoga pants. This is what I wear all the time at home, pretty much, unless itās really cold, and I wear flannel pants, or really warm, and I wear menās sleep shorts (because they donāt make them for women, thatās why; actually, the flannel pants are usually menās too).
However, when I go to the store, I switch to cargo pants/shorts, depending on temp. Cargo pockets, thatās why. Wallet goes in right cargo pocket, billfold in left, keys in right hip pocket, cell phone in left. And these days, I slip in a few bottles of hand sanitizer and packs of wet wipes, plus a pack of Kleenexes.
I HATE carrying a purse. I own three. One is a big, ugly denim one that holds a shit-ton of stuff, including a laptop, an entire meal, a first aid kit, and a paperback book, and I bought it from Goodwill for taking on airplanes. Unless I am wearing a skirt or flying, I do not carry a purse.
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/8 "2020-04-09T19:52:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> I donāt feel fully awake and āadultā unless Iām dressed, even though the sweats are more comfortable.
I try to avoid feeling either one of those ;).
Iām still working and canāt telecommute, so pants whenever Iām farther from my place than the trash disposal. At home it is sweatpants ~90% of the time.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/9 "2020-04-09T20:01:07Z")
I picked pjs. Except Iām not leaving the house at all. Not sure that Iād wear them out in the world.
They are very cute, tho. Pink and red hearts over pale yellow. Grandwrek said I look like Valentineās day.
Comfort is whatās important, to me. YMMV
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/10 "2020-04-09T20:04:18Z")
I wear sweatpants or shorts at home, and pants or shorts when out- which is not at all, right now.
I choose option 1, which is closest, I think.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/11 "2020-04-09T20:10:24Z")
Iām sealed up in my home for the duration, but I (mostly) put on pants prior to breakfast. If I happen to keel over dead at my computer, I want the police/EMS to find me looking sharp.
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### Author:  [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/12 "2020-04-09T20:12:57Z")
I try to wear regular pants at some point in the day. Today, I wore PJs in the morning, and had to go outside to take out recycling and didnāt change to pants, quite the unusual move.
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### Author:  [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/13 "2020-04-09T20:15:07Z")
Pants? We donāt need no stinking pants!
Mostly sweat pants (or in the parlance of the OP ātrack pantsā), or shorts, depending on the temp.
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/14 "2020-04-09T20:18:38Z")
I wear shorts at all times at home, and pants at most times when outside. Wasnāt one of the options.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/15 "2020-04-09T20:19:20Z")
I live in jeans unless the situation dictates something dressier or more athletic.
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/16 "2020-04-09T20:26:20Z")
Pantation? During a pantdemic? Pantdemonium!
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/17 "2020-04-09T20:28:24Z")
Iām actually wearing pants more because of the pandemic.
My normal routine is I donāt wear pants at home. I often spend the day in my bathrobe.
But my father is hospitalized and my mother needs assistance at home so I am staying with her. And she appreciates me getting dressed.
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### Author:  [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/18 "2020-04-09T20:29:12Z")
Its still to cold to not wear sweats.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/19 "2020-04-09T20:37:18Z")
I voted that I have to wear pants because Iām still working, but the āhave toā part of that has never actually been tested by me.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-poll-are-you-wearing-pants/851452/20 "2020-04-09T20:38:56Z")
I still put on the same clothes I would have worn if I were going to the office, even though Iām working from home. It helps maintain at least some sense of normalcy.
Also I keep my thermostat kind of low, so it would get a bit chilly without pants.
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