Those Garance Dore shots are in NYC. I would also say that it has nothing to do with a consciousness of fashion that in Paris people are less likely to wear sweatpants and uggs. I mean, you see the same thing in London. Unless you are doing a certain type of look, you never see people wear sweat pants in public. Not even running to the shop around the corner, and not anything like the type of sweats we wear in North America. I don't think that exhibits a greater consciousness of fashion, I just think that they don't have the same association with sweatpants that we do. I doubt their schools and clubs and groups make commemorative sweatpants for things, or wear scrubs casually, etc. It's just a different type of connection, though I don't think it's superior.