<p>From this thread, it sounds like the majority think it is perfectly appropriate to wear sweat pants to class everyday because what matters is one’s comfort. </p>
<p>Neither of my Ds took a pair of sweatpants to college, nor am I aware that they ever wore any to class. I visited their campuses numerous times over the years, and although I never specifically looked for sweatpants-wearing students, my overall impression was that they looked appropriate and even good, by my standards.</p>
<p>Both of my Ds attended urban campuses, which might explain the dearth of sweatpants wearers. Students tended to dress as one would when walking around a city.</p>
<p>Our CA public school district’s dress code prohibits visible underwear. Students will be sent home or be forced to wear a XXL T-shirt that covers the offending attire.</p>
<p>Our oldest didn’t even own a pair of jeans when he was in college. He wore athletic pants to class every day, as did many of the kids but mostly it was jeans and a t-shirt. Once kids have to start doing their own laundry, etc. it’s amazing how much less particular they are about what they wear—or how often they wear it before they wash :D. None of the campuses we have visited have kids dressed up at all, mostly jeans and t-shirts for boys, yoga pants/t-shirt for girls.</p>
<p>The one thing my daughter is very attuned to is seeing other young women wear leggings/tights as pants - it drives her nuts.
She even had a t-shirt in HS that had imprinted on the front: Tights are not pants</p>
<p>Neither of my kids wear sweats much except when coming in from the cold. D does wear running tights/leggings as pants in the winter and running shorts in the spring/summer. ( but if my legs were that long, I might do that too!)
I guess I should be happy she is mostly spending money on food not clothes.( well food and race entrance fees)</p>
<p>zeebamom-as a child of the 80s I rocked that fashion faux pas on a regular basis, normally with an oversized sweater with shoulder pads akin to an NFL linebacker.</p>
<p>I loved when leggings and oversized sweaters/shirts were in–comfortable to wear but considered stylish. It’s WAY better than 40+ year old women squeezing into low riding jeans with their granny pants hanging out the back :D.</p>
<p>Jeans and sweats on campus are fine – but dress up for your professor’s office hours. We notice. It makes you look like the kind of person we’d like to hire, recommend for an internship, etc.<br>
Likewise, if you’re going to a talk on campus and you think you might want to wander up to the front and schmooze with the speaker after the talk, wear a pair of khakis, a sweater, something clean. (We’re also more likely to invite you to lunch with the speaker if you’re dressed appropriately.)</p>
<p>Depends on the individual Profs and/or campus culture. At my undergrad, none of the Profs would have cared and if they had…they would have opted to teach at another institution rather than my LAC. </p>
<p>On the other hand, this did apply with some summer/grad classmates’ Profs at an Ivy. However, at those institutions, I was fortunate to have Profs who were much more openminded about how students dressed.</p>
<p>Yes, depends on the prof. In my rc, we live in the dorms where our major classes and profs’ offices are. Showing up in fuzzy slippers to office hours is not uncommon. </p>
<p>I go to profs’office hours all the time in less than nice clothing. Never been an issue personally.</p>
<p>Same here. Fortunate for me as I only had old hand-me-down clothes and a suit that ended up becoming too small for me by the beginning of sophomore year. </p>
<p>Didn’t have the money or time to replace those clothes until my first job after graduation. Funny how it didn’t hurt me for job interviews, either.</p>
<p>I took a temporary assignment at an engineering firm last summer. I was doing AutoCAD work (computer drafting) for them - it wasn’t even engineering (which I also do sometimes). I was in a back room and had no contact with clients, so I dressed very casually. After a few days, the head of the department gently told me I needed to dress more “business casual.” I was mortified! Learned a lesson, I guess.</p>
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