Finally, An Explanation For City Blue

Hey, remember Daniel Rubin? The Blinq guy? Well, he’s an Inquirer metro columnist now, and today he writes the best Inquirer column since… well, maybe ever.

Apparently, according to Rubin, we are the sweatsuit capital of the United States. One out of every three adults in Philadelphia have purchased a sweatsuit in Philadelphia, according to John Fetto of Simmons research, by far the most in America. New York and San Francisco lag behind with only 25 percent of the adults there owning sweatsuits.

Okay, so the column has a Rocky reference, but I’ll let that one slide. But apparently there’s a problem with Philly having lots of track suits. Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner explains:

“You watch everybody line up in the morning at the Criminal Justice Center - witnesses, complainants, defendants, family members - and you’d think these are people who are coming to watch their kids play Little League ball.”

Oh no! People want to be comfortable when they go to jury duty or are about to go to jail! How dare they!

But Lisa Bono, 44, of Limerick, says that the sweatsuits aren’t a problem at all. They’re simply an extension of our founding fathers’ love for freedom.

“When it’s your time, you want to be in what you like, not what an office dictates of you. After all, Philly is freedom and a dictatorship is not the system I want any part of.”

Preach on, Lisa. Or shall I say Thomas Paine?

Daniel Rubin | Fashion in Philly? It’s no sweat [Inquirer]