The Experiment Podcast: How Working From Home Started a Sweatpants Revolution
March 28, 2022
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as posted by the channelThis episode was originally published on February 18, 2021.
To mid-2000s celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, sweatpants were high fashion. To the likes of Jerry Seinfeld and Eva Mendes, they’re a sign of defeat. And since the start of the pandemic, sweatpants have become perhaps more ubiquitous than ever. “A lot of people who had been going to offices stopped going to offices for the foreseeable future,” Amanda Mull, a staff writer for The Atlantic, says. “I think people were forced to decide what it is they want to wear for this new circumstance they’re in.” In this episode of The Experiment, Mull and the host, Julia Longoria, trace sweatpants through U.S. history and debate an age-old question: Do they symbolize laziness, or freedom?
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