Do you wear “normal” clothes when cooking?

[KoreanBeauty]

Was chatting to a friend about this. When I get home from work or even from being out and about, I almost always get changed into my comfy home clothes. I feel strange cooking in my nicer clothes and worry I might stain them (an apron does’t cover my arms for example). She was surprised to hear that and uses her good clothes for everything without being bothered. Made me wonder if I am the weird one! What clothes do you normally cook in and do you use aprons?

Yeah I change into comfies.

Sometimes I even cook in pyjamas!!

As soon as I get home I change into my comfy clothes. I refuse to wear my outdoor clothes round the house

@DappledThings - you can’t be serious; your children stay in school uniform when they get home? 😮 This is going to worry a part of my brain all day. The thought of that is so … perturbing.

Come in from school.
Take off shoes.
Wash hands.
Upstairs to take off uniform, hang up blazer and skirt, put blouse in laundry bin.
Change into home clothes.
Downstairs for snack, Blue Peter, homework …

Was pretty much the same at boarding school, too, without Blue Peter …

If an item is dry clean or hand wash only then I would take it off for cooking (as don’t want it to smell of food), but things that are just going to be washed anyway stay on. I wear an apron if likely to be messy, but don’t bother otherwise.

My loungewear tends to be oversized dresses anyway - I never wear trousers.

My kids don’t get changed when they come home from school, I mean they can if they want but they don’t. Occasionally the youngest puts on his pj’s.

I wear the same clothes from morning until bedtime. Don't change to cook and don't wear an apron either. It's very rare that I spill anything down myself!

All my clothes are comfortable (otherwise I'd have bought different ones) so easy enough to relax in. My workwear isn't very formal though, agree with pp that if it was a suit or something I probably would. As it is, I don't want to generate any more laundry than I have to.

Yes. Never occurred to either my brother or I or my parents or me now or my DC to change for no reason. And just walking through the door isn't a reason to me.

I don't have this distinction between indoor and outdoor clothes that some claim to. Nor do I find any clothes uncomfortable.

Yes, that was one of the minor oddities I learned from Mn — that the first thing some people do, virtually on the doormat the moment they get home, is rip off their bra!

What do people do if they are in and out throughout the day? Still get changed for the periods when you are at home? And then change back into outdoor clothes? I have never really come across the concept of outdoor clothes - I have general clothes and then a handful of things that I wouldn’t wear outside the house.

Changing for cooking sounds a separate issue from changing into home clothes after work.

I am a SAHP. In my working days I'd usually change out of work clothes when I get home but I never change my clothes specifically to cook. If anything might spatter I'll wear an apron and remove a pale jumper, or jumpers whose sleeves don't roll up.

I have different aprons for cleaning.

It was even in an advert recently for something. Maybe a charity? Like it's a universal experience. Really odd.

I don't think that's an oddity?! It's what I and all of my friends do. My mum used to do it too!

I wear the same outfit all day. I don’t work now - though I still wear dresses/ smart trousers daily - but when I worked in offices I still didn’t change when I got home/ cooked.

I only wear comfortable clothes; I never wear jeans because I don’t find those comfortable.

I have a bath just before bed, then change into pyjamas. I only ever wear very casual clothes (joggers etc) when exercising.

My bit of psychopathy is that I love wearing PJs at home, but I'm not so fond of slippers: they are apt to go slippety-slop (a line from a book about a child sneaking around at night), and they don't stay on. I put trainers on my bare feet with my PJs instead. That way my feet are safe in the kitchen, and if I need to nip outside. After all, trainers are good enough emergency footwear for Bridget Jones when she runs after Mark Darcy in the snow.

I like to be barefoot and have always cooked that way without issue until I dropped a paring knife which fell point down and embedded in the top of my foot. It took forever to heal and was really painful!

But why own clothes you find uncomfortable in the first place? If they aren't comfortable I don't buy them.

I do take of my bra, though - I even keep it downstairs and pop into the downstairs loo to put it on when leaving the house. I only wear it because it bothers some people if women aren't wearing bras. It's my (grudging) concession to social niceties.

I have nice clothes I leave the house in ..and the minute I get home I get changed in to joggers or stuff I'm waiting to charity shop.
But we have dogs and there hair sticks to everything,plus cooking and cleaning just ruins anything nice ,so never wear nice clothes at home

Because I have to wear smart clothes to work (when I'm in the office). We're old school here so I still wear a shirt / blouse with trousers or a skirt. Which is infinitely more uncomfortable and less relaxing than my leggings / joggers and a sweatshirt / hoody!

Agree re the bra though!

I love that!

I always wait to have a shower / wash my hair on a Sunday until after our roast dinner as I find that the smells get in my hair and clothes and hate going to bed smelling like grease 😂

I find it deeply odd that women are routinely spending many hours a day wearing an item of underwear so uncomfortable they take it off the moment they’re in the door! Surely they can’t all be wearing the wrong size!

I always change after work - at this time of year it’s joggers and jumper, Ugg boots as slippers. In summer leggings, t-shirt, flip flops or Birks.

I sleep in a nightie so that goes on just at bedtime.

Physically my bra doesn’t hurt. I just get sick of wearing it

My DH changes his work clothes - but only because we have two spaniels who are happy to see him and slobber all over his ‘best’ trousers. I make him put an old T on if eating/cooking curry as I got fed up of his ruining work-shirts, but otherwise no, not for cooking specifically.

It isn't uncomfortable during the day? Neither are my work clothes?

But it is lovely to get home and NOT have to wear something with a wire under your boobs / buttons / zips etc.

Unless you can go to work every day in - what is essentially - loungewear then it's pretty much fact that pyjamas, joggers, leggings etc are more comfortable than workwear?

Well, that’s roughly what I wear. Yesterday I wore wide-legged woollen trousers with a thin knit tucked into them to work, came home and made pizza in the same clothes. (And bra.) Apart from switching my shoes for indoor Uggs.