Remember when employees would push for “casual days” so they could wear jeans to the office? Well, that was pre-pandemic, pre-remote working. Now, jeans AREN’T CASUAL ENOUGH.
There’s an emerging trend of people wearing SWEATPANT JEANS. If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s what it sounds like: Sweatpants that are made to LOOK like denim jeans. (Here’s an example.)
They’re already available in a bunch of styles: If you Google “sweatpant jeans,” there are ones in every style that regular jeans come in . . . including high-waist, wide-leg, low-rise, torn or “distressed,” and “skinny jeans.”
The prices are all over the map, but many of them are affordable . . . closer to sweatpant prices than trendy jeans prices.
According to CNN, they’re becoming a major “viral trend” . . . so SOMEONE at your office will try to pass these off as jeans for “casual” days.
(CNN)
(Until we all slide farther down the slippery slope . . . and people want to work in their UNDERWEAR.)