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To think that women (or men) who drop their kids off at school in PJS, go shopping in Tesco in pj's and come down to the breakfast in a hotel in pj's are wrong in the head?

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YourAmplePlumPoster · 29/05/2025 19:22

I visited Amsterdam last year and was shocked to see an apparently middle class women coming down to breakfast in her pj's,dressing gown and slippers. Similarly going round Tescos where there are people, especially women in pj's and slippers. No doubt I'll be called an old right wing fascist or something.

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EdithBond · 30/05/2025 17:50

henlake7 · 30/05/2025 11:23

I see it all the time round my way. Women (and it never seems to be men) in pjs, slippers and dressing gowns shopping in town, popping to the corner shop and sooooo many on the school run.
Surely its the height of laziness to not bother doing a quick change?

I recently had this dilemma as I had bad vertigo and wasnt able to do much for a couple of days, but still had to wobble outside with my dogs a couple of times a day.
I ended up sleeping in joggers and a t shirt so I could still be fairly presentable in public! And thats the thing.....there are so many things you can wear to bed that dont look like pajamas and yet people are still wandering around Sainsburys in Hello Kitty pjs and fluffy slippers.

Sensible approach. Though isn’t this the point? Not everyone wears PJs in bed.

Some people wear shorts and a vest. Or joggers and a t-shirt. So how does anyone know people are wearing (to breakfast in an hotel, on school run or in supermarket) clothes they’ve slept in?

Is it OK as long as it’s not identifiable sleepwear? When most of the criticism about wearing PJs is about wearing clothes you’ve slept in.

ruethewhirl · 30/05/2025 17:49

Asdada · 30/05/2025 17:25

Other members of the public have to look at you in your PJs though. It’s disgusting and depressing and I’d be asking for a refund from any hotel that allows it. No chance I’d turn a blind eye. I don’t eat breakfast with a view of anyone in PJs even if I’m related to them.

You'd ask a hotel for a refund because a guest came down in PJs??

What an earth do you expect the hotel to do about it, throw them out? (after allowing them time to dress so as not to offend your delicate sensibilities, of course)

Seriously, I think you might need a bit more to occupy your mind...

ObelixtheGaul · 30/05/2025 17:47

Asdada · 30/05/2025 17:25

Other members of the public have to look at you in your PJs though. It’s disgusting and depressing and I’d be asking for a refund from any hotel that allows it. No chance I’d turn a blind eye. I don’t eat breakfast with a view of anyone in PJs even if I’m related to them.

When I am in a hotel, I'm really not interested in the clothing of people I don't know. Of course I can see them, but I am hardly forced to sit looking at them, even if they are on the next table. I am focussed on my own food, the company I am with, thinking about the day I am going to have, not gawking at others in the dining room.

It's not hard to pay little attention to people quietly getting on with their breakfast when you have your own interests to be getting on with.

If they were stark, bollocks naked, I might look twice. But it's not going to put me off my breakfast unless they've dunked their unmentionables in the bacon.

I have better manners than to sit staring at people, regardless of what they have on. I'm not embarrassed by what other people do, it's a pointless emotion to attached to another person. It is their embarrassment to have, or not as the case may be.

I don't get these people who can't just get on and shop/eat breakfast/whatever whilst somebody else does the same in different attire. It's a public space. Other people exist in it. Clothes don't stop people being sweaty and smelly.

If I was this bothered I would have breakfast in my room and shop online.

henlake7 · 30/05/2025 17:44

Those people who think its fine and they are just clothes, 'who cares!? mind your own business!', how about going out in your underwear or just a towel?
I mean if everything is covered and its nobodies business then is it fine to be shopping in boxers or a slip? Would you clutch your pearls for this or be ok with it?

Geniunely interested what the cut off point is! (I live in a fairly dodgy area and have seen some pretty hair raising sights....including a guy walking down the middle of the street in his underwear!).

Needmorelego · 30/05/2025 17:43

@MatildaMovesMountains exactly. I went on a bus today with about 20 people on.
The driver had a uniform. I couldn't tell you about anyone else 😂
Edit : I lie. I did think briefly "isn't she hot in that coat" about a lady in one of those long puffy coats.

MatildaMovesMountains · 30/05/2025 17:43

Your one golden life, and you're frittering it away on pointless, futile, joy-killing anger over something you can't influence.

MatildaMovesMountains · 30/05/2025 17:42

I couldn't tell you what anyone wore today - I don't waste my life staring at other people's outfits, unless of course they are extra stylish and I have outfit envy. Which is quite often. See also: trouser envy, dress envy, hair envy.

Needmorelego · 30/05/2025 17:36

@Asdada Don't look if you don't like it 😂
I always show this picture on these (tedious weekly anti-pj) threads of this fantastic pair of 1920s pyjamas.
I wonder what colour they were? I wish I had the body to wear something as pretty and floaty as these.
I can't believe the non important things people get het up about.
(picture make take a minute to show)

To think that women (or men) who drop their kids off at school in PJS, go shopping in Tesco in pj's and come down to the breakfast in a hotel in pj's are wrong in the head?
MatildaMovesMountains · 30/05/2025 17:28

YourAmplePlumPoster · 30/05/2025 17:12

Pj's are for the home. Pj's are for the home. What person doesn't understand this?

Nobody cares.

Asdada · 30/05/2025 17:25

Needmorelego · 30/05/2025 17:15

Silk floaty pjs are beautiful.
Much more beautiful than some "smart" outfits other people wear.
More comfortable too.
But why do you actually care so much?
Really what actual difference does it make to YOU?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Other members of the public have to look at you in your PJs though. It’s disgusting and depressing and I’d be asking for a refund from any hotel that allows it. No chance I’d turn a blind eye. I don’t eat breakfast with a view of anyone in PJs even if I’m related to them.

beesandstrawberries · 30/05/2025 17:16

I agree. I’ve literally had major life changing surgery and a week later whilst feeling the worst I’ve ever felt, I've still got myself dressed and done the school run whilst on crutches - fully presentable in clothes. There is no reason for it, it’s embarassing. I knew someone who would say ‘I don’t give a fuck what people think of me’ and wear he dressing gown whilst doing her Tesco shop each week. I could never understand what she was gaining by wearing that instead of putting a coat on instead

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 30/05/2025 17:15

YourAmplePlumPoster · 30/05/2025 17:11

I also bought satin pj's. They could possibly pass as evening wear. Not so much the Disney or snoopy ones, or the ones tightly fitting around an 18 stone body. Anyone remember when pubs banned 20 stone men from coming in shirtless with their builder's crack on display? I seem to remember some protest about that 🤔 😀

They only banned 20 stone men? Or everyone?

EmeraldShamrock000 · 30/05/2025 17:15

localnotail · 30/05/2025 14:52

Sooooo good to feel self righteous if you don't have to share a packed bus with someone who doesn't wash and pisses themselves.

How do you know me and my kids are not vulnerable?

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Okay, not the best description, however I agree with you that sitting beside someone who stinks on public transport is horrendous.

I have no idea if the man who sat beside me recently was homeless, his grey tracksuit bottoms and trainers were clean-ish, he stank of stale piss, stale alcohol, his finger nails were filthy, he sat beside me for 8 stops, I didn't want to offend him by opening the windows, I was dizzy holding my breath. I live in the city, there is homeless facilities for showers and clean clothing 5 minutes away.

Vile.

Needmorelego · 30/05/2025 17:15

Silk floaty pjs are beautiful.
Much more beautiful than some "smart" outfits other people wear.
More comfortable too.
But why do you actually care so much?
Really what actual difference does it make to YOU?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

YourAmplePlumPoster · 30/05/2025 17:12

Pj's are for the home. Pj's are for the home. What person doesn't understand this?

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YourAmplePlumPoster · 30/05/2025 17:11

I also bought satin pj's. They could possibly pass as evening wear. Not so much the Disney or snoopy ones, or the ones tightly fitting around an 18 stone body. Anyone remember when pubs banned 20 stone men from coming in shirtless with their builder's crack on display? I seem to remember some protest about that 🤔 😀

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MatildaMovesMountains · 30/05/2025 17:09

YourAmplePlumPoster · 30/05/2025 17:07

So why didn't you get washed and changed into fresh normal clothes seeing as you're capable of doing it. I can only assume that people going down to brekkie in pj's fresh out of bed in a hotel or a shop don't know how to wash or dress themselves like a small child. It's childish, infantile behaviour.

Your obsession with other people's sartorial choices is really weird.

YourAmplePlumPoster · 30/05/2025 17:07

FruityCider · 30/05/2025 16:32

Not only have I done this a few times, (in hotels) I actually washed and got changed in to fresh PJs to do it. I love wafting about in PJs in the morning, but don't sleep in clothes.

My favourite time was in a very swanky place, in satin PJs, on the terrace in the sun eating my scrambled eggs, before retiring to my room/balcony with the newspaper crossword and a mimosa. Bliss.

Wonderful to see how I long may have lived rent-free in people's heads 😄

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So why didn't you get washed and changed into fresh normal clothes seeing as you're capable of doing it. I can only assume that people going down to brekkie in pj's fresh out of bed in a hotel or a shop don't know how to wash or dress themselves like a small child. It's childish, infantile behaviour.

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JazbayGrapes · 30/05/2025 16:58

School or corner shop - don't see a problem.
Big shopping or town - pretty strange.

localnotail · 30/05/2025 16:55

ruethewhirl · 30/05/2025 15:04

Well, are you?

Whether or not you are, I'd hazard a guess that it's a damn sight easier for you to find somewhere to wash your clothes/body than it is for a homeless person.

I would not stop smelly homeless person from using the bus - its their right and the nature/ purpose of the public transport. The fact they smell bad and are gross - well, its life... its not like I'm going to discriminate or abuse them over it.

My original comment was re someone sitting in their bed clothes on the piss stained seat and then, I assume, going to bed wearing the same clothes. Its not something I would consider hygienic, but seems a lot of people on here would not mind. I normally get changes once I get home, and would never sit on my bed wearing "street clothes". But everyone's standards are different, I know that.

FruityCider · 30/05/2025 16:32

Not only have I done this a few times, (in hotels) I actually washed and got changed in to fresh PJs to do it. I love wafting about in PJs in the morning, but don't sleep in clothes.

My favourite time was in a very swanky place, in satin PJs, on the terrace in the sun eating my scrambled eggs, before retiring to my room/balcony with the newspaper crossword and a mimosa. Bliss.

Wonderful to see how I long may have lived rent-free in people's heads 😄

ObelixtheGaul · 30/05/2025 16:26

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 30/05/2025 15:58

OP has also only seen one person eat breakfast in a hotel in their pjs. And apparently is now mortally offended that anyone might go anywhere in PJ's.

Quite. And has made the giant leap to anyone not being bothered by this must be happily attending interviews in PJs.

Dangermoo · 30/05/2025 16:16

MatildaMovesMountains · 30/05/2025 16:12

Moving the goalposts a bit, are we? 🤪

😆 🤣 😂 moving them back to Reddit - with any luck.

MatildaMovesMountains · 30/05/2025 16:12

YourAmplePlumPoster · 30/05/2025 15:07

I'm about to go to my optician for a check up. I will, of course, be wearing my Jim jams just as I do when I go for appointments with the doctor, dentist, hospital and job interviews. I'm sure most posters here do this 😅🤪

Moving the goalposts a bit, are we? 🤪

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 30/05/2025 15:58

ObelixtheGaul · 30/05/2025 15:43

Again, why does it concern you if they did. You aren't doing it. Nobody has told you you should be doing it, so I am still wondering why what other people choose to wear is of such a concern to you.

OP has also only seen one person eat breakfast in a hotel in their pjs. And apparently is now mortally offended that anyone might go anywhere in PJ's.