Giving Up: Sweatpants in Public

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Do you wear sweatpants in public during non-athletic activities?

How do you justify it?

― andy, Monday, 15 March 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

i wear mine extra tight so you can see the veins in my balls.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

They're much easier to pull down than regular trousers, you know, for flashing and public urination purposes.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

theres this guy at the gym who wears skin tight sweatpants, the other day i looked up from the bench and there were his boys staring me right in the eye.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

Also my father was the master of sweatpants. When I was a kid he had this red pair, complete with this yellow sweatshirt that said "Cuccini" on the front of it. He would mow the lawn in his red sweatpants, "Cuccini" sweatshirt and slippers. Its no wonder the man lost his mind.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

Actually this reminds me of a good story. One time when I still lived in Brandon I was driving west on Princess Avenue past the Beaubier Hotel when I noticed a man and woman standing on the corner. As I drove by the man pulled the woman's pants down and started (sort of) licking at her no doubt glue-ridden snatch like a thirsty dog at his own peehole. The woman - no surprise here - was wearing sweatpants. This story proves that in certain cases the wearing of sweatpants in public is a-ok.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

theres something about wearing sweatpants with no underwear that really takes the cake.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

Especially when it's a bag lady wearing white ones and she's forgotten the meaning of a thorough wipe.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

I just did a ggl img src for sweatpants and saw something disrturbing, so classic!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

saw the same thing.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

DROP THOSE SWEATPANTS! SURE THING!

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

in high school my gf's mother wore a purple sweatsuit all the time, we called her Grimace. She also had the biggest gunt i've ever seen.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

I wear sweatpants often when I just walk around my local neighborhood, if I just want to grab some groceries or a bite to eat, or just talk to a friend working in the area, or just dropping something off in the mail, etc. I justify it by saying "hey, I live around here. I'm not looking for a date right this second. Look the other direction if you think I'm disgusting, and get your fuckin' micro-dog and maroon lip plaster away from my sight". (OK, i don't really say or think that, but you know what I'm talkin' about)

I don't bust out the scrotal veins a la Chris V., but maybe I'd get more attention finally if I did.

(Chris, I love your Freudian attachment to pants.. it's a bright spot here in ILX. :) )

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

seeing as im getting older and feeling more in touch with my italian heritage as i get older im debating whether or not to buy a velvet tracksuit.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

I usually wear a baseball cap when I just pop out to buy milk or whatever in the neighbourhood. That's my "I don't care what I look like 'round here, but I'm not going to totally slob out on my peeps" signifier.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

I'll sometimes wear some of those plaid cotton loungy pants when I go down to get the mail. I occasionally have to do deep breathing and visualization exercises in the elevator on the way down to keep from getting all tenty in them.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, I think that's why I stopped wearing sweatpants during puberty and never went back. It only takes one girl calling you "Pokey" one time to have a nickname for the rest of eighth grade.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

I really don't have skin tight sweatpants, but I have some baggy fleece sweatpants that i wear all the time, but not out for social gatherings. Mainly to the grocery store.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

"I'll sometimes wear some of those plaid cotton loungy pants..."

Those would be called "pyjamas," right?

― andy, Monday, 15 March 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

not in Canada

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

They're a little too much like pants to be pyjama bottoms I think. Sort of in between. They do have a vent which comes in handy for wizzing in the sink.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Are they Zubaz?

http://www.badfads.com/images/zubaz01.jpg

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

I own no such item of clothing.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Bryan
Can I hug you for this thread

― anthony, Monday, 15 March 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

They are NOT Zubaz! Sure Ant but I don't know why you'd want to.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

Best Use of Tracksuit in Hollywood Production: _Safe Men_. Poops, if you're gonna go that route, you have to see this flick 1st.

Also - what's wrong w/ mowing the lawn in sweatpants? Do you wear chinos for yardwork or something? And, if so, do you accessorize?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

Youch. Whatever you do, don't google "sweatpants" with the filter off. Thanks Huck & Chris for getting me all curious like that.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

oh man some of the guys at the gym still wear those pants up there. anyone remember SKIDZ?

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think there's anything wrong with wearing them to mow the lawn or 'around the house'... but I draw the line at wearing them out for coffee or out to the store. That IS the public, and sweatpants are not for wear in front of others (unless at the gym or out running).

I see alot of couples wearing matched velvety suits as well, usually a coppery or blue color. Not okay either.

Do not go gently into that good night or whatever...

― andy, Monday, 15 March 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

sorry P.P.
retinal incinerations will be doled out at the end of the working day.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

Dear Male Denizens of ILx,

You know I love you, etc., but please stop talking about your luscious genitalia (even if only in the context of sweatpants) as I am trying to focus on work and other things that will not make me crazy with desire.

Hugs and kisses,
Mike

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

Hahaha 'gunt'.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1556523564.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

I mean, if Sinatra wore a necktie in the recording studio - maybe the most sequestered, private place of all - we can at least bother to put on a pair of presentable pants to go out to very public places. In his honor, if nothing else.

― andy, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

a friend of mone goes to a gym in southie. it is a small sized room and the guys who work out there all wear jeans with workboots and no t-shirts while they work out. the southie gym; no sweats, no class.

― kephm, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

that's easily the gayest sounding gym I've ever heard of

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

im not a big fashion fascist but non-athletic use of sweatpants makes me mad. They're always unflattering. Seinfeld had it right on that.

― Elliot (Elliot), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

then my work here is done.

― kephm, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

my room mate wears his work uniform shirt, and sweatpants, and thats about all.

its pathetic and i hate it

― anthony, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

I would never, ever wear sweatpants in public unless I was jogging. In fact, that's what usually keeps me going, if I stand still for too long people might think I was just out and about wearing sweatpants.

However, girls in sweatpants can be oh so hot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

Just for all the bitchers here, I'm going to wear sweatpants and a late 80s magenta crotch bag belt at the next FAP.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

i wear the flannel pants or sweatpants & slippers , hell i even go out in my robe if it is a coffee/video/food run.

― kephm, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, I take all that back. I'm going to wear my baby blue breakfast foods pajamas at the next FAP.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

DB, you should wear some shorts over that, too. And legwarmers.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

A pal of mine from university - she was a petite, very cute Indian girl - had a pair of lucky "trackies" (as we call them in this part of the U of K). She maintained that she could go out all gussied up and get NO INTEREST. But if she slobbed out and wore her lucky trackies she would inevitably go home with a keeper.

I wore my UEA trackies out to the ILX footie the other week and the PF said I looked like a Crusty. Or maybe he just meant my trackies were crusty. I know this much is true.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

my mind is boggling at the thought of the Nipper in trackie bottoms

― chris (chris), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

There's a man on Holloway Road who wears the same get-up each day: tweed houndstooth jacket, a battered grey trilby pulled down tight over his ears, cane, leather shoulder-bag, and tight maroon sweatpants. He walks haltingly, and his eyes appear perpeturally widened in fear or shock, like he's just seen something beyond description. His faced is engraved with deep seams, and bristles with a thin stipple of white scruff. When he talks to you he barks the words out through a tight constriction somewhere just behind his tongue. It's usually about a bar he used to run with someone who stole his money. And his trousers, I guess.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, so you noticed me, Tr8r Hand?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

sweatpants in public are great, as it eases masturbation.

allegedly.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

More ties and hats, less sweatpants and shorts.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

Let's try to keep the Gentleman's Clubs gentlemanly, gentlemen.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

I think I would not mind tweed jackets and sweat pants -- that requires a certain amount of audacity that I can only admire.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

Mowing the lawn while wearing slippers? That's the problem, not the sweatpants.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, what, do you hate toes?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

holloway road is a lunatic magnet, isn't it?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

I found a pair of sweatpants the other day that didn't have elastic ankle-holes, they were actually rather cool-looking. Unfortunately they were toddler-sized.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

has any hardcore bastard been down to the shops wearing just his pyjamas and a coat?

no me neither, but loose comfortable sweatpants can be perfect if lazy attire for such a mission, especially in Summer or when you don't expect to run into that many people

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

holloway road is a lunatic magnet, isn't it?

OI!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Sometimes you don't expect to run into a whole lot of people whilst wearing sweatpants but then something just comes over you.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

dude you're like school on a Sunday

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link

i've gone to the corner shop a few times wearing a coat over plaid flannel pajama bottoms and whatever tshirt i slept in. it means extreme illness, hangover or otherwise.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

Ditto. Works especially well as a look with a (vintage) Burberry trenchcoat to hide the drool on one's t-shirt.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

I can't even leave the house without a collared shirt; what are these sweatpants?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

Porky-pig style eh Spencer? attaboy

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

I'm going to have pantless nightmares tonight.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

Wait, Spencer, don't you work with computers? And you have clothing anxiety?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

Not when he's riding free and easy, apparently.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

Sweat pants seem very popular with the developmentally disabled as well. I worked in a home for autistic men, and many liked sweat pants because they were easy to put on (no belt).

But this is just an observation - no opinion on their wearing them in public.

― andy, Monday, 15 March 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

Black leather jackets seem very popular with the S&M/gay as well. I worked with in a home for S&M/gay men, and many liked black leather jackets because they were sexy to put on.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

Worked with what, the breathless masses ask.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

Trucker hats seem very popular with the drug addicted indie junkies as well. I worked in a home for drug addicted indie junkies, and many liked trucker hats because they were easy to put on (no shampoo).

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

I had a friend in college who always wore one pair of sweatpants every day. One night I was sharing an editing bay with him and made some offhand joking remark like "oh you with those sweatpants again, ha ha ha". He laughed as well.

Apparently the next day he showed up to the edit bay wearing jeans, and another friend of ours said "hey you have jeans on today!" Sweatpants-no-more lifted his shirt to reveal that in fact the jeans were very tight around the waist and unbuttoned, and the zipper was slightly down. His gut hung over the waistband. He screamed "People always joke about me wearing sweatpants, but THIS is why I wear them! My jeans don't fit anymore because I'm fat! So if people want to see my gut and maybe my cock if my jeans rip apart, so be it, they can have a GREAT fucking laugh then!!" Then he stormed out, leaving our other friend puzzled. the funny part was he wasn't fat, he was about 5'10" 150, but he had "ironic indie gut" from drinking beer and watching old G.I. Joe tapes all day.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:37 (twenty years ago) link

Ironically, my sweat pants are tighter than all other below-the-waist clothing I own.. so, let's hear it for ironic indie bellies... or something.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

(great story, Gear)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

I know someone who has a pair of sweatpants he wears, saggy and all, makes him look like he's wearing nappies. Ace! Maybe he is?

Bring back the MC Hammer trousers, as comfortable as sweat pants with a sexy sheen. Everyone should wear them but me.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

MC Hamma say y'all r fucknoodles.

― dave tremaine (dave t), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago) link

McAllister: "Lard ho! 'Tis a good sign; Homer's unfastened the top button
on his pants."
Akira: "Uh no, he's been walking around like that since Thanksgiving."
McAllister: "I'm surprised he doesn't just give it up and go for sweatpants."
Akira: "He says the crotch wears out too fast."
McAllister: "Yarr! That's going to replace the whale in my nightmares."

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link

I wore my nightgown to work today

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

Kudos. This is the funniest thread I've ever had the pleasure to lurk in on ElIXOR.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

im wearing them at home right now, not in public, while eating a worcestershire sauce snack mix, and i think i'm having an age-related epiphany because they've never felt so soothing.

― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link

I wore my nightgown to work today

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link

sounds fun

― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:29 (five years ago) link

Giving Up: Sweatpants in Public

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link

Saw a guy in a robe on the street the other morning
And what’s with people wearing their indoor slippers to get coffee from the corner in the morning

― calstars, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link

i should not have bumped this thread

― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/archives/photographs/large/c24414-21a.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link

the thing... one of the many things... about that mesmerising photo is why is his goddam shirt *tucked in*.

― Fizzles, Saturday, 5 May 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link

My Japanese ex-pat friend keeps posting FB links to articles about how dangerous and unsanitary wearing your shoes indoors can be, so slippers to the shop down the street would make her insane.

― MaresNest, Sunday, 6 May 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link

Stepping over a small stream of dog piss on the sidewalk making its way slowly down to the curb. Ah city life

― calstars, Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link

Such timing

Yes, fancy sweatpants are a thing, and they might be the answer to the eternal question of what to wear to #wework https://t.co/4CPMS5DP2k
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 1, 2018

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 May 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link

The future is here

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 6 May 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link

my extreme fitness lifestyle requires me to wear sweatpants at all times, I never know when I might need to run some intervals

― Brad C., Sunday, 6 May 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link

I guess it was a similarly big deal when people started wearing jeans in public

― calstars, Sunday, 6 May 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

Defend the indefensible
Sweatpants apocalypse

― calstars, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link

Oh the days when we used to wear hard pants every day.

― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link

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