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Make pyjamas acceptable in supermarkets on Sunday mornings

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BoxingHare · 11/01/2026 11:31

It's Sunday morning. I'm jimjammed up. Warm and cosy.

But on the spur of the moment I want eggs and bacon for brekkie so need to go to the nearby supermarket.

AIBU to think that, whilst nightwear in supermarkets is an abomination at all other times, on a Sunday morning, cut off time 12pm (so only a 2-3hr window) it could be socially acceptable for people who also wake up on a Sunday morning and randomly decide they want something a bit more exciting than their usual fare to go to the shops* without having to get fully dressed? Or is it a slippery slope?

*food only, I'm not suggesting full scale wandering about town!

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PragmaticIsh · 11/01/2026 12:16

BunnyLake · 11/01/2026 12:15

Leggings are my normal day wear. Leggings and a sweater/top that covers my bum and I’m dressed.

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Oh I know it's pretty standard wear, I just couldn't wear jogging trousers or leggings out unless it was to the gym. I accept I'm odd though!

Original poster
BoxingHare · 11/01/2026 12:16

Catwalking · 11/01/2026 12:02

Just go to bed fully clothed? 😆

😯

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Toottooot · 11/01/2026 12:16

Dinna be a mink. Get dressed min.

BookAndPiano · 11/01/2026 12:15

It puts me in mind of those who go out in public with their face unwashed, dirty teeth or unbrushed hair-these often accompany public pyjama wearers-and I ask myself if this is how they present the bits that are on show, what must their arses and undercarriages be like!

BunnyLake · 11/01/2026 12:15

PragmaticIsh · 11/01/2026 12:11

I don't understand how anyone could go to the supermarket without showering first, you'd feel utterly disgusting!

Not even pyjamas, but I can’t imagine wearing jogging trousers or leggings to a supermarket, very slovenly, they're for the gym in my mind. So pyjamas are another level!

Leggings are my normal day wear. Leggings and a sweater/top that covers my bum and I’m dressed.

VickyEadieofThigh · 11/01/2026 12:15

I never go out in public without showering (which I do every morning) and dressing appropriately.

It's lazy as feck to go out in night clothes.

JacknDiane · 11/01/2026 12:14

Manky, wandering in a supermarket in jammies
🤢

rosydreams · 11/01/2026 12:13

The reason people don't make it socially acceptable is were does that slide end. There needs to be a bare minimum or were does it lead.

I teach my daughter minimum out is hair brushed,clean pants,top bottoms and what ever shoes.

I work drive through i have seen people in just a dressing gown and NOTHING ELSE .why

You can have some comfy leggings or joggers and a baggy t shirt for running out the house with flip flops . If i do the school run its jeggings trainers and a baggy t shirt.You can be lazy but decent

Zsazsagirdlebuns21 · 11/01/2026 12:12

BoxingHare · 11/01/2026 11:31

It's Sunday morning. I'm jimjammed up. Warm and cosy.

But on the spur of the moment I want eggs and bacon for brekkie so need to go to the nearby supermarket.

AIBU to think that, whilst nightwear in supermarkets is an abomination at all other times, on a Sunday morning, cut off time 12pm (so only a 2-3hr window) it could be socially acceptable for people who also wake up on a Sunday morning and randomly decide they want something a bit more exciting than their usual fare to go to the shops* without having to get fully dressed? Or is it a slippery slope?

*food only, I'm not suggesting full scale wandering about town!

Not acceptable whatsoever!!

I live a street over from a major supermarket & invariably see people ( mostly women btw) walking there with night attire !
Slippers , PJ’s , Fluffy Dressing Gowns !!!!!
In what world is this actually acceptable?

On Friday night a friend messaged me to say she was in a carvery & there were multiple people in the same attire WTF 😬

We live in denial areas her close to NW London in
Hertfordshire me Cambridgeshire

PersephonePomegranate · 11/01/2026 12:12

Definitely time to upgrade the lounge wear! My go to in winter consists of a sweatshirt or hoodie and fleece lined leggings.

MargolyesofBeelzebub · 11/01/2026 12:12

On Christmas day, I saw a whole family of four out walking their dog in matching Christmas pyjamas (under their coats). It made me irrationally angry and I don't know why. I know I was being unreasonable haha.

I think people venturing more than 10m from their house in pyjamas must be a social taboo 😂

WhoGrant · 11/01/2026 12:11

Good lord! Have you given up on life?

catching · 11/01/2026 12:11

LVhandbagsatdawn · 11/01/2026 11:36

Sorry but this is ridiculous. If your clothes are that uncomfortable you need new clothes.

I have never understood why people think jeans, shirts etc are uncomfortable. If they are then you're wearing the wrong bloody size.

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But changing your clothes means putting taking off warm clothes and replacing them with cold clothes.

I would never ever go to the supermarket in pyjamas but I understand how they are more comfortable than jeans

UnhappyHobbit · 11/01/2026 12:11

DollopOfFun · 11/01/2026 11:36

I don't get it...

a) who wants people who haven't got washed and dressed in close proximity to them in public

and

b) who wants outdoor public germs on their indoor nightwear?

Begone to thy wardrobe ye slattern! 😆

This a million times!

Those super comfy pjs are sacred OP! Don’t spoil them by mingling with the great unwashed!

PragmaticIsh · 11/01/2026 12:11

I don't understand how anyone could go to the supermarket without showering first, you'd feel utterly disgusting!

Not even pyjamas, but I can’t imagine wearing jogging trousers or leggings to a supermarket, very slovenly, they're for the gym in my mind. So pyjamas are another level!

DeposedPresident · 11/01/2026 12:10

There is a bit of me that feels nostalgia for Days of Yore where people dressed quite formally all the time, even at home. But i think in practice I would not like it.

But having respectable loungewear that can seamlessly transition ** from home to otuside is a good call.

**Yes i am being deliberately pretentious as a joke, but actually I do think nice loungewear is important. I don't have any, so might do some internet shopping. Smile

Dontlletmedownbruce · 11/01/2026 12:09

Organise your life better so you have food in stock. Or accept you don't and eat something else. Or just change your clothes. Surely if anything is going to interfere with the snuggly winter morning feeling it's the trip to the shop itself.

Gingernaut · 11/01/2026 12:09

BoxingHare · 11/01/2026 11:33

Yes but you're comfort is completely lost, and the whole cosy feel of Sunday has changed to day wear mode.

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So, stay at home and go out shopping on a day where you will get dressed

BunnyLake · 11/01/2026 12:09

GameofPhones · 11/01/2026 12:01

I was in supermarket once, in the afternoon, when a heavily made-up woman came in wearing baby-doll nightwear (shorts bottoms) and was buying cakes. She looked as if she'd just popped out from a brothel. I was intrigued and amused.

Was she wearing those high heeled slippers with a pom pom on as well?

BookAndPiano · 11/01/2026 12:09

BoxingHare · 11/01/2026 11:34

Note: I'm now fully dressed (90 seconds), and am off to get breakfast.

Are you washed?

I'm sure that those who go out in pyjamas are unwashed and smelly.

I haven't conducted a survey or have any statistics- biased or otherwise- to support my belief because
a) common sense tells me they are
and
b) I don't want to stand downwind of them to ask them

TheKateColumbo · 11/01/2026 12:09

This is what delivery services are for surely. Any cosiness from home is surely spoiled by the act of leaving the house.

BunnyLake · 11/01/2026 12:07

No. As tempting as it is I would just get dressed. I sometimes put a coat over my pj’s to take the bins out for collection and feel slobby enough doing that.

Allmarbleslost · 11/01/2026 12:06

I should say no but my teenager has just travelled home on the bus from a sleepover, wearing her pyjamas. I haven't got a leg to stand on.

Lorrymum · 11/01/2026 12:05

No!
I now have visions of people strolling around Sainsbury's/Tesco/Waitrose in nightshirts and nightcaps with a candle holder in hand. I think I saw too many versions of A Christmas Carol over the past few weeks.

ElegantFowl · 11/01/2026 12:05

It’s utterly skanky.