Its interesting reading the replies, as it shows how many of the people who replied are not from or live in low income areas. I live in a low income, high unemployment area and since the 1980's leisure wear / track suits / sweatpants and now yoga pants are what many people wear on a day to day basis., because they are cheap to buy clothes which are warm. People in this area have a very low budget for clothes, and could buy two pairs of sweatpants for the same price as 1 pair of jeans. When the mall opened around 1990, the local joke at the time was, The Pope came to bless the new building and kept saying in his speech, I bless this new gym, and the Mayor kept correcting him, no your Holiness, its a mall, and the Pope asked, if its a mall, why is everyone wearing tracksuits???
So I see a different side, I see people doing the best they can and wearing cheap sweatpants on a day to day basis, so that they can have money to feed their kids.