It has been so long since he's said something that wasn't rainbows and unicorns, I wasn't sure I heard him correctly.

The skids have very little in the way of non-athletic/jeans clothing. Most of their dressier clothing has been purchased buy us and has disappeared. I know they still have it as things have been mentioned recently: each had a HS event where they needed to wear nicer clothing. DH did not get any of it back so they had nothing yesterday to wear to church and out with family. He used to crab at me if I made any comment about scaling back on the nicer brand/clothing.

We drove separately from the kids and DH crabbed on the way saying how pointless it is to buy them nice clothing as they never wear it and it seems to disappear, that he hates to compare kids, but why hasn't any of DSs (my son) nicer dressing worn off on the skids at all, that he's more okay with DS getting nicer clothing and higher-end brands (we do not buy designer stuff, he just means a bit better than what the skids get) since DS wears it all the time.

He's also pissed at the lack of effort by them, he thinks YSS sleeps in his athleisure (I'm sure he does), and that they were just going to wear their regular extreme-leisure clothing out for the holiday.

I said thank you. He was confused and asked why I said that. I told him that I said thank you because he actually said what he was upset about and didn't stay silent but take out his irritation on me. 

My hope is that this doesn't turn into an expensive, ill-advised, and short-lived crusade to get them to dress better.