Thank you, KeepGoing, for your accurate portrayal of how sagging started. Contrary to very persistent popular belief, it did NOT start in prison as a signal of availability, as my late step-father who worked in the prison system made clear. He said if he or his co-workers had seen anyone dressed like that, they would have been confined. I'd heard the poverty explanation before, but it never answered why they continued to wear baggy clothes as adults. Now I know. But I don't quite understand it. I totally get not being ashamed to be poor, but I don't get choosing to advertise it through ill-fitting clothes. I say this as one who grew up poor and lived in subsidized housing.

Note that one of my dislikes (yes, I should have used that word, you're correct) is "ripped or stained clothes in public, when the person can afford better." For example, I believe we should wear our best when going to church. If our best clothes happen to be rags because that's all we can afford, then we're still wearing our best. I've been there.

By the way, I do wear sweats at home, to keep my legs warm if I'm cold. Sometimes I even wear them going out, running an informal errand like grocery shopping. But then I make sure I'm color-coordinated so I look merely casual, not sloppy.

My dislike of hoodies is purely subjective. It isn't the hoodie's fault. I just don't like the look, that's all, and I put it in the same category with asymmetrical necklines which I don't like either.