What does DRES mean in Rehabilitation?

Dres

Dres or dresiarz is a term used in Poland to describe a specific subculture or class of young males. Dresiarze stereotypically live in urban tower blocks or tenement houses. They are usually portrayed as undereducated, unemployed, aggressive and anti-social. The dresiarz phenomenon was first observed in the 1990s. It would later partially merge with the hooligan subcultures, especially football hooligans. The term refers to tracksuits, which in Polish is dres. Kark and blocker are related but not synonymous terms. The term has a pejorative connotation in Polish mass-media * Their female counterparts are known as dupy, suczki or blachary, with all these terms having a pejorative connotation. Dorota Masłowska's novel White and Red is one of the first books published featuring the dresiarz phenomenon. Dresy have been a theme of songs by Dezerter and Big Cyc. They are also popular negative characters in the comic strip Jeż Jerzy.

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