Leisurewear: things like sweat pants, track suits, pajama pants, leggings. Out and about: anywhere you’re not immediately and obviously coming to/going from working out, or in the case of pajama pants, literally anywhere at all outside of your home.
It all is so declasse and even trashy. No we don’t dress as formally as they did in the 1950s, but being the tip of the spear of plunging standards by wearing Tweety Bird flannel pants grocery shopping or skin tight leggings out to dinner makes you uniquely classless.
If your behavior is driving the eradication of standards, yeah, your choices are bad.
Have some respect for yourself and others and throw on actual pants at least, even if you still must wear a hoodie with them. A collared shirt would be a bonus, but again, pants are the bare minimum here to seem respectable.
It’s ironic, because even wealthy people are doing it, especially leggings everywhere. But that’s the era we live in, where the wealthiest among us are often the most culturally vapid as well.
This goes against what OP said though. Comfort is trashy and looking respectable is more important.
Tbf OP never said comfort is trashy, just leisure wear and “comfort clothes.” Everyone who’s ever worn a properly tailored suit will tell you that they can be the most comfortable ensemble in someone’s closet.
Written wearing a pair of relaxed corduroy trousers and Howlin’ fairisle sweater. Comfortable, casual, but entirely inoffensive to someone with taste.
That was in reference to “leisurewear” and “comfort clothes” being trashy. Not that comfort is trashy.
It’s not only possible but pretty easy to be comfortable without wearing “trashy” comfort clothes or leisure wear. I gave an example of that.