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Going out shopping in your PJ's and slippers

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AppleWhiskers · 08/12/2024 16:29

That's the third time this week, a sighting across 3 towns, nice seasonal tartan numbers with sturdy animal slippers Grin

Best one was in Booths, a family of three resplendent in matching jammies. imagine the pearl clutching at that!

Still, what does it mean exactly? I thought this had died off years ago. If it's happening up here in Booths, maybe it's coming to a Waitrose near you further south any time now..

I don't currently drive so I don't have the luxury of choice, it's rainproof up to the eyeballs up here in storm Darragh.

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Galatine · 08/12/2024 20:57

AppleWhiskers · 08/12/2024 17:02

Ha, and at the same Booths a woman in her 30's or so just threw a pile of sweet wrappers from her pocket onto the floor beside the magazines.
She had a determined look of 'fuck you' about her.

I think that's what it is, in a way, a sort of fuck you to the idea of any kind of dignified social contract.

There was a good verbal slinging match outside between a similarly attired woman and her partner. She screamed at him through the car window and repeated slammed the door till the car shook.

The Lake District has....changed a bit since I was last here.

We have to know which Lake District Booths branch it was.

nildesparandum · 08/12/2024 20:53

My NDN drives her car in backless slippers and long cardigan over her pyjamas.

Anewuser · 08/12/2024 20:52

I don’t really understand it. It’s so easy to put on a pair of leggings, top and trainers/boots.

I’ve sometimes worn my pjs at home and thought could I get away with just putting my coat over the top and my wellies, to walk the dog in the dark. But then I think I’d have to change anyway before bed. (I couldn’t sleep in pjs I’d worn outside).

Surely, their slippers get filthy?

TheDowagerCountessofPembroke · 08/12/2024 20:52

Sunnyflow · 08/12/2024 20:08

I regularly go out in my slippers. And not just to the front garden, to places like the supermarket.

But then they're by definition not house shoes / slippers.

The point of house shoes is that they stay inside and don't get wet or dirty outside

According to some on this thread that is a laughable idea!

ProfTeeCee · 08/12/2024 20:46

You see it everywhere in Australia. Horrible cheap pyjamas and filthy feet. Grim.

ForGreyKoala · 08/12/2024 20:43

ranoutofquinoaandprosecco · 08/12/2024 17:12

Ooops, I've been to Booths on my decorating or allotment gear, leggings, oversized jumper, then either wellies or crocs, they don't seem to bat an eyelid in my store!

Completely different, you have made the effort to actually get dressed. I don't get "dressed up" to leave the house, but I wouldn't be seen dead in public in my pjs (unless I was escaping a fire!).

WaryHedgehog · 08/12/2024 20:42

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notprincehamlet · 08/12/2024 20:40

I was in superdrug a while back and the woman on the till had her hair in rollers 😂

stargazerlil · 08/12/2024 20:32

It’s probably a chain reaction, starts with going out to the bin with slippers on, somehow escalates to “oh fuck it, no one’ll notice if I wear my jammies to Tesco” I’ll be in and out in 5 minutes.

not that I’ve ever done that myself of course.

IKnowAPlace · 08/12/2024 20:18

I saw a family in matching Christmas pyjamas at Euston yesterday. I presume they were going on the polar express!

Needmorelego · 08/12/2024 20:17

But why do people care so much? Does what other people are wearing in the supermarket actually affect your life in any way?
The staff need to wear uniforms so you know they are staff - but the customers....who cares?
Does it stop you buying your shopping?
No. It doesn't.

toucheee · 08/12/2024 20:16

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 08/12/2024 19:51

who that know what his pyjamas have been can help feeling an interest in them ?

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And this is your opinion of my pyjamas? Perhaps my pyjamas might have been overlooked had I flattered your pyjamas?

user2848502016 · 08/12/2024 20:14

It's weird, I used to live in a certain northern city where it was quite normal to see mums doing the school run in pyjamas, also people would wear them to go to the corner shop.
Where I live now I never see it, just depends what's normal I guess

PositivityVibes · 08/12/2024 20:09

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Sunnyflow · 08/12/2024 20:08

I regularly go out in my slippers. And not just to the front garden, to places like the supermarket.

But then they're by definition not house shoes / slippers.

The point of house shoes is that they stay inside and don't get wet or dirty outside

Forgottenwhatitwas · 08/12/2024 20:06

I work in a convenience store and see it every day, I often wonder if it ever happens in the local waitrose 😂 to be fair it's usually late at night when people have run out of fags or milk. The pyjamas I can understand but the slippers does have me clutching my pearls, especially in the rain

SauvignonBlanche · 08/12/2024 20:04

I think going downstairs in my pyjamas is uncomfortable, leaving the house is inconceivable - unless it’s on fire.

Legoandloldolls · 08/12/2024 20:00

I judge. Too right if its 8pm. Did you put them on especially to go shopping? Or have you Bern in them all week? Do they get surgically peeled off once a month? What's the point of slippers you go upside in? Did you get the bus? Did you walk? Do you wear shoes inside? Are slippers for outside?

I was in police station reporting a crime and someone came in pjs, nightgown at 11pm asking if they had her 9 year old as the neighbours saw them talking to him. And I thought bad things about her. I doubt she gave a fig. As do they women out shopping in pj, furry sliders and a stained nightgown at 8pm. They don't care. I'm just grateful I don't have to get close enough to see if they smell fusty. They look fusty.

MidnightMeltdown · 08/12/2024 19:56

AppleWhiskers · 08/12/2024 17:02

Ha, and at the same Booths a woman in her 30's or so just threw a pile of sweet wrappers from her pocket onto the floor beside the magazines.
She had a determined look of 'fuck you' about her.

I think that's what it is, in a way, a sort of fuck you to the idea of any kind of dignified social contract.

There was a good verbal slinging match outside between a similarly attired woman and her partner. She screamed at him through the car window and repeated slammed the door till the car shook.

The Lake District has....changed a bit since I was last here.

Wow, lucky you! The crème de la crème of society.

Disgusting lazy fuckers. I don't give a shit what's going on their lives, people like this deserve to be judged.

LouH1981 · 08/12/2024 19:53

AppleWhiskers · 08/12/2024 17:02

Ha, and at the same Booths a woman in her 30's or so just threw a pile of sweet wrappers from her pocket onto the floor beside the magazines.
She had a determined look of 'fuck you' about her.

I think that's what it is, in a way, a sort of fuck you to the idea of any kind of dignified social contract.

There was a good verbal slinging match outside between a similarly attired woman and her partner. She screamed at him through the car window and repeated slammed the door till the car shook.

The Lake District has....changed a bit since I was last here.

I was going to say maybe they’ve been on the Polar Express but after reading this perhaps not 😆😆😆

Ggmores · 08/12/2024 19:52

Well I would never venture so far up north to go to a Booths!! God forbid! I’d assume that all of the patrons were wearing some form of slobby attire so it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 08/12/2024 19:51

toucheee · 08/12/2024 19:32

You take an eager interest in that gentleman’s pyjamas.

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who that know what his pyjamas have been can help feeling an interest in them ?

StepAwayFromGoogling · 08/12/2024 19:49

Meh. Why is it skanky? They could be clean pyjamas. Everyone else could be in three day old clothes.

I've been known to get home, have a bath and get into my pjs only to realise we're out of milk. More than happy to throw on a long coat, a pair of shoes and pop to the Local. That said, I tend to wear slouchy pjs that look like loungewear but couldn't give a monkeys what anyone thinks about it.

I'd draw the line at a dressing gown though.

Cattery · 08/12/2024 19:48

It’s almost like advertising your trampiness

MajorCarolDanvers · 08/12/2024 19:42

It’s completely skanky.

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