Going out shopping in your pyjamas

Your post just reminded me of the time I saw a woman cycling through the outskirts of a busyish small town, on a hot day, in nothing but a thong bikini. From the back she looked naked till you took a second look. 😲 Again, nowhere near a beach or anything like that. On one level I sort of admire that level of insouciance, but I was mainly ‘who does that?!’

I don't go out in my PJs but last night to watch TV, I wore quite smart, lose striped trousers and and ironed shirt with a revere collar and buttons. Today I'm wearing saggy bottomed joggers and a paint stained sweatshirt 🤣

It’s completely manky.

I was in a hotel in London last week and the woman at the table next to me had come down to breakfast in her pjs and slippers and hadn’t even brushed her hair.

put me off my breakfast

Do you sleep in a hoodie?

This is it really. Standards have dropped dreadfully. I try to look smart when I go out. I may not achieve others ideas of smart but I do try. I sometimes find shop assistants treat the better dressed people differently

I’d do that before leaving the house. But in my own house? If I don’t feel like it? Nope. And it isn’t a sign of laziness/slovenliness/moral turpitude either.

Yer what? I've be reporting you via See it; Say it; Sorted 🤣🤣

some of my pyjama trousers aren't a lot different to track suit trousers - I'd throw a coat on over those and go the the local waitrose late night - but not ones with checks or obvious pyjama type patterns.

I was out the other day and saw a woman taking her child to school - pyjamas, pink fluffy dressing gown, slippers - but the really bizarre thing was a full face of heavy make up that must have taken ages.

I wouldn't go to my big Sainsbury's in pyjamas. But popping in to the corner shop at 10pm.in my pj's? No problem.

I think enough of myself to allow myself to relax in my own home. Slovenly? Really?

It certainly does happen! One day I went to one of those shopping parks! B&Q, Homebase, Matalan and there were 3 ladies, who’d come out together in PJs, it was about lunchtime. They were queuing at the burger van. They were
looking at everyone challengingly, everyone was trying their hardest not to look at them.

I personally do not come downstairs until I’m fully dressed. I could not function in my night clothes. I do not actually own a pair of PJs and never will.

I'm usually always dressed when I go to shops. However last night at 10:30pm my toddler spiked a crazy high temperature and we couldn't find the calpol or nurofen. So you bet I ran out to the car and legged it to the local supermarket that closed at 11pm to get some in my pyjamas and coat. First time I've done it, and I would do it again.

Just to mix it up a bit…I’ve just thought, I generally wear pjs bottoms with next thin strap vests for bed (and only for bed, or as I said above, clean ones for lounging in). I also bought some jersey wide leg trousers from next last year that I decided to keep as pjs so how does that fit in with this whole debate? Outerwear as pjyamas?

Then you might as well wear normal day clothes

Black leggings. Black hoodie. Trainers. Day clothes or pyjamas?

As so often happens, we have people trying to portray a smug virtue e.g. Hey, I'm just such a chilled, accepting free spirit who is morally above such petty considerations.

When in actual fact it's a sad necessity e.g. my personal standards have sunk to such scruffy levels that people hold their breath when they walk past me.

I think the point is that they've slept in the outfit they go out in, most likely not had a wash, and who knows how many nights they've slept in the jimjams? They could have been sleeping in them for a fortnight.

I wouldn't go shopping in pjs but I do go out in the car to collect my son in them, usually with my big oodie type thing over the top. To be honest unless pjs say good night on them there is little to differentiate from comfy clothes. I have a loose pair of black tracksuit bottoms. My daughter has a pair of plain black pj bottoms. My husband frequently muddles them up when sorting the washing. The main thing for me wearing pjs is I wouldn't be wearing a bra therefore I'd feel self conscious walking round the shops. But I did pop in for one item the other day wearing a hoodie over my pj top, no bra and the aforementioned trackies.

I'd say a dressing gown looks more strange out in public.

@AlwaysPerfumed I am clean and currently smell of lavender.
Ironically my Uber driver (jeans and jumper) stinks of damp and BO.
😂😂😂😂😂

Honestly, I dont care what anyone else wears.

I dont wear actual pyjamas as i dont sleep in anything.

My "round the house" clothes are joggers and a hoodie or t shirt + underwear and bra.
I have been to the shop in those, but unsure if it counts as "pyjamas".
If it does then i am part of the downfall of society but I cba changing into jeans to go get milk.

@Needmorelego

Hmmm...I think I'm getting the complete picture of you.

Hope you manage to have a compartment to yourself on the train...for your comfort and the comfort of others.

Safe journey!

Yes, it’s my thinking that is odd, not your thinking that is literal minded. Definitely.

@AlwaysPerfumed ok seriously I have to go because I have to catch a train.
I am so very sorry my navy with a little pattern of dots loose fitting trousers that I am currently wearing offends you so much and apparently means I have no respect for society.
I'd say something else to you but the last time I did that Mumsnet suspended me for a week 😂

I honestly think you are the one who’s logic is off
Wearing sweaty pyjamas that you have slept in to the shops, possibly no underwear and have clearly not showered for the day ……anyone who showers for the day Dosen’t get back into sweaty pyjamas that the slept in the night before if they are leaving the house

Oh Morrisons. Perhaps you could try shopping in Waitrose.