About the torn clothes...
Hawes's outfit remains unchanged, so I guess it's intentional that the Gym Leader's clothes are fixed. Team Plasma were probably planning to take the Leaders hostage from the start, so maybe they prepared some spare clothes for them? They were able to get hold of Brycen's clothes too. I know it sounds kind of too kind, but Team Plasma could be the kind of villainous team that would have a little bit more of hospitality than the others. They weren't planning to take Hawes too, so they didn't have anything for him. That's my theory.
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