Well also levels of delusion. I've known a few villains who are just so stupid in their outfits and their shtick that I'm amazed they thought it was a good idea. Like Walrus man. With the proportional strength and agility of a walrus, which is to say he was fat and slow and beaten in about five minutes, a large portion of those minutes spent recovering from laughter.

[Pants are surprisingly not a problem, he wasn't a tailor but he had done enough stitch work on his own outfits]

Eh, depends where the rip is, and what kind of material it is. Pants generally speaking shouldn't be a problem, but if its some rare material or something might be harder.