What do you think of this family house rule?

Sounds absolutely awful to me but each to their own!

I wasn't raised like that, though I think I would have liked the standard.
People are much more sloppy these days, including myself, choosing comfort over style.
I'd love to be the type of person who makes effort everyday to look groomed.
I admire people who dress well.
When I make the effort, I feel so much better.
Pyjamas to joggers, another challenge for my long to-do list.

It is normal(ish) in mine. My son comes down in his pyjamas and eats breakfast / looks at his phone but I send him back up to get dressed and tooth brushed fairly sharpish. My daughter likes to get dressed and ready before coming downstairs (her choice).

There are lots of ways of living. I would struggle with the idea of staying in pyjamas all day because I would feel as though I had really achieved nothing. But I would not say that others were wrong to do so.

Why is there an assumption that wearing nightwear/pjs/dressing gowns = smelly?
We are pretty relaxed in our house about wearing pjs etc downstairs but no one smells!

Did the rule imposer go to boarding school by any chance?

I wouldn't have had a chance if I'd tried to implement this rule. It would only have taken two days of one DS coming downstairs in swimwear and one DD wearing her riding kit all day for me to realise how ridiculous this was and unless I was going to stipulate exactly which clothes were to be worn at which particular times, I was on a hiding to nothing.

Yes, my kids did take the piss all the time. They are not natural rule followers, any of them. I happily embraced the 'wear what you like when you like as long as you put something decent on when visitors/granny are coming over' rule.

I honestly don't think this is a bad thing. I wouldn't want smelly teenagers on my sofa either tbh and i do think lazy behaviours breed lazy lives.

In the week the kids are all dressed and ready before they eat, at the weekend eat in PJ's then dressed for the day ( even if in comfy clothes) shower and clean pjs at night for TV is fine.

I see no problem in people having standards in their homes and i think the word 'controlling' here has been used a ridiculous amount!

Lol it’s not a castle. But it’s just an odd layout. Like if an octopus was a house. I would say more arms to the house than wings 🤷‍♀️😂

Going back to the night part of the house means I failed in efficiency.

No, never! Shower and dressed before anything else. Unless there's a load of people in the house and the hot water has run out!

Don't feel this is the only right way to do things, but it is what DH and I do.

Me too! I hope they come back to update!

I wouldn't set this out as a house rule, though it might be what you ask younger children to do if that's the way you prefer to do things. I think for teens and older it is a matter of personal choice and definitely not worth making a stand on. You could reasonably require teens to get dressed for visitors, but not generally.

DH and I are always showered and dressed before breakfast. It's incredibly rare for me not to do that. So that's the behavour we have always modelled and actually what the kids used to do. But now they are young adults and when they are home they will sometimes spend half the day in pyjamas (not actually generally what they wear in bed, to be fair) and I'm not going to worry about that.

I'm intrigued what @POSTC123 home is like.

I can't remember ever being iniving room as a kid / teen with nightwear on. My kids didn't either. I didn't have any big rule but I suppose was just the norm for us all

Terrible parenting

Multiple parts to the house? Do you live in a castle?! I’m imagining you wheeling suitcases full of clothes from the east wing to the west wing.

If I needed one of my teens to go to the corner shop they would make an enormous fuss about it I would probably warn them the night before, or I'd simply ask them to go when they were dressed. If it was urgent DH or I would be quicker. In the same way DH usually goes out early if we need something because he's up and dressed earlier. I do more late night trips to the petrol station though.
I mostly ask the kids to run errands in school.holidays when they are home and I'm at work, they can go whatever time of day they wish.

I’m downstairs in the lounge wearing the pjs I slept in. Each to their own but possibly one of the most bizarre house rules I’ve ever come across.

@CruCru I don't see why you are taken aback. It's not normal in most houses.

I wonder what other rules OP has in place.

I’ve just reread the OP’s posts. I’m a bit taken aback at some of the responses. It may not be how others want to live their lives but it isn’t abusive to say that before you come downstairs, you need to be in jeans and a hoodie, not pyjamas. She has not said that they need to be “interview ready”, just clean and moderately groomed. I’ve taken this to mean that if she asked a child to go to the corner shop to get some milk, they could.

My younger teens have to be washed, dressed and have eaten before they can go on devices at the weekends.
It means fewer arguments which can only be good thing IMO.

You are very generously permitted to in the evening in OPs house, I believe

Here's a conundrum for the cleaning/hygeine police
At the weekend I sometimes wake up, scroll on my phone for a bit, put dressing gown on and go down for breakfast. Then start some household chores including cleaning....and then have a shower afterwards....but should I be cleaned and groomed (I always think of brushing a horse or clipping a dogs fur when I hear grooming in this context) to clean the house?

I would argue the opposite.
For starters, who said anything about not giving love and cuddles in pyjamas, it just happens upstairs.
Secondly, building in an active approach to life is good for mental health. Down times can happen at the end of the day.
Accepted that I am an 'active type'. I can't remember the last time I chose to spend a whole day at home and on the rare occasions that it's been forced on me by bad weather, I make sure I don't waste it by getting on with something in the house.

We all do this I have just realised. Except the dog

Different houses, different rules. Definitely was a rule in my house in 1975. Yes, many things have changed over the years so 100 years ago coming down to breakfast in pyjamas I don't think would ever have happened. Gradually these behaviours have been eroded.
I would imagine that more active households tend to be the get dressed type as it's more efficient.