When I moved from New York City to San Francisco, one of my initial reactions was "Damn, everyone here dresses a fright." I eventually acclimated, but it took a minute to get used to everybody doing everything in yoga pants. And then, suddenly, I was wearing yoga pants too.

Later I moved from San Francisco to Berkeley and was like, "Damn, I thought San Francisco was bad!" The Berkeley scene was no joke — Birkenstocks with soy ink-dyed hemp-wool socks galore, North Face vests paired with denim cargo shorts as far as the eye could see, and I regularly saw a man wearing a white t-shirt with "Ask Me Why I'm Vegan" scrawled on it in black sharpie.

Apparently this "casual Friday-and-then-some every damn day" way of dressing is a national epidemic — and according to a some, a tragedy. To wit, Notre Dame professor Linda Przybyszewski teaches a class called called "A Nation of Slobs." Which sounds even more amazing than "Underwater Basket Weaving," or "American History: Sweet Valley, 1983-present."