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to think if you are out in your Pj's in the middle of the afternoon you area dirty lazy B&%$*&D

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yogididabooboo · 23/02/2011 16:19

I am getting increasngly perpelexed at the numbers of women, not just young gilrs, but women who walk around at 3pm in their PJ's.

I started seeing it at the school gates and assumed mum was woken late and just rushed to get child to school.
BUt then i would see the same mum collect the child in the afternoon in the same Pj's.

i am now seeing them walking around supermarkets in them.

WTF is wrong with pulling on jeans and a baggy jumper if you can't be arsed to make an effort?

it is disgusting. it can't be hygenic surely?

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KazBarTFG · 23/02/2011 16:38

'Pyjama people' I call them, one step away from Zombies. (In my area anyway)

I often do the shopping in my pj's, but i shop online Grin

usualsuspect · 23/02/2011 16:38

I saw a lad in my local paper shop the other day in his pjs and dressing gown Grin it just made me laugh

mamatomany · 23/02/2011 16:38

It's all gone downhill since women started wearing slacks and not putting on a full face of make up before 8am, my gran invented the school run dress, there's no way she'd have left the house without full slap and a nice frock with matching hat.

willowwool · 23/02/2011 16:39

YANBU. I saw a middle-aged woman out and about in her PJs at 7pm on a Sunday evening. I did judge her and don't care if this makes me a snob.

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TheArmadillo · 23/02/2011 16:40

I can't believe people wear their pyjamas out.

I mean my standards are low but that just takes the piss.

yogididabooboo · 23/02/2011 16:41

|I can't believe anyone would even attempt to justify such a thing.

Now admitedly i live in SE london so it is a bit chav central round here, but even where i work i am seeing it with increased frequency.

It's bonkers

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HalfPastWine · 23/02/2011 16:43

There are some funny trends out there. One that particularly amuses me is the one in Liverpool where they go out with rollers in their hair. Pure comedy and as one poster said, a totally 'look at me' trend.

rinabean · 23/02/2011 16:44

I see lots of them around here in Coventry, but they don't offend me. They don't stand out that much amongst all the tracksuits and other ugly clothes. I just don't get why it would annoy you so much.

DamselInDisguise · 23/02/2011 16:44

The practice is not 'chavvy'. Extremely posh girls have been getting taxis to attend university classes in their PJs for years. Throw on some uggs, spend 45 minutes coiffuring your hair into a birds' nest and applying make up, and you're all set for a discussion of Russian politics in 1857.

GlynisIsFixed · 23/02/2011 16:51

and just to join the bunfight, we 'sweat and shed skin' all day, not just at night

so there

saying that, i don't like the look either. the chavs family up the corner from us wear their pjs out and i saw the kebab delivery man at theirs at sunday lunch time [judge-judge] *hoiks bosom

Honeybee79 · 23/02/2011 16:51

YANBU.

I am a lazy, lazy bugger and can't be bothered to make an effort at the moment. But even I shower every day and put on clean clothes, only jeans and jumpers but do not go out in PJs.

Surely you'd just feel a bit rubbish if you spent all day in PJs? Plus, if you have a shower then surely you don't want to put back on the clothes you've just slept in?

harpsichordcarrier · 23/02/2011 16:53

'chav central'
HmmBiscuit

nickschick · 23/02/2011 16:54

I dont wear my pjs in the day and yes I do wear makeip everyday and make sure im dressed appropriately... but I stick to my mums theory on minding other peoples business ........snout out.

cocoachannel · 23/02/2011 16:54

I've never seen this. Maybe it's a SE London thing that hasn't reached us over in SW London Wink

Having said that I am in (fresh) huge primark PJs, but haven't left the house and am 40 weeks pg, so that's my excuse!!

mrsscoob · 23/02/2011 16:54

That is awful! Who in their right mind would go OUT OF THE HOUSE in the jim jams Shock Surely that is the first sign of madness! I can't believe it!

yogididabooboo · 23/02/2011 16:57

oh shush with your biscuity cats arse face.

I know there is a fashion of "chav chic" but PJ's? i just don't get it. why would you want to look like you just fell out of bed?

I did have to laugh inwardly when stood in the chemist behind two girls aged about 16, in Pj's (fake) uggs, birds nest hair, orange skin and gold earings big enough to hula hoop with purchasing a pregnancy test..discussing the girl down the roads outift and proclaiming how much of a chav she looked.

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SauvignonBlanche · 23/02/2011 16:57

"it bothers me because i am wearing judgy pants and given myself a wedgy with them" Grin

I just had to pop to Sainsburys and was going to take DD (10) with me. We'd just got back from town where we'd bought her some new PJs. She didn't want to take them off so I made her stay at home - alone.

Lovecat · 23/02/2011 16:57

I'd heard of this but never seen it til last week. Woman in Homesense, Romford, I'm looking at you and I'm judging... :o

HecateQueenOfWitches · 23/02/2011 17:01

Oh I have seen it. School run, tesco.

I think there are 2 types of pj wearing in public folks. 1 - bone idle and 2 - think that it's 'cool', or rebelious, or that people will somehow be impressed or something, 'look at me, I'm so baaaaaad and non conformist, wearing my pjs in public, I'm, like, making a Statement, innit'. I dunno. Probably.

I see it. I just don't care about it.

I'm dressed, so I don't look like a prat. Nothing can possibly happen to me because some stranger is walking round in their pjs, so I don't care about it.

oldwomaninashoe · 23/02/2011 17:02

There are a lot of "looks" that are awful, daytime PJ's being just one.
See through leggings, grubby bra straps showing and scraped back greasy hair are several I can think of!
Standards are definitely slipping Shock

RunAwayWife · 23/02/2011 17:03

I think anyone who is out and about in their PJs is a n idiot

StormInaCCup · 23/02/2011 17:04

I was trying to take my judgeypants off and leave them by the door (so to speak) but no, actually - fuck it... If you leave the house in your PJs I bloody well will judge you. I will think that you can't be arsed to even throw on some tracksuit bottoms or jeans and that you are lazy and slovenly.

You might have 'special' dayjamas that are freshly laundered or whatever, but I won't know that, and I will most certainly think you have no self respect.

[that's better emoticon]

yogididabooboo · 23/02/2011 17:05

Oh god yes, and women of a certain size mistaking footless tights with leggings.

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nagynolonger · 23/02/2011 17:06

Well I would never do it......apart from to put the bin out or maybe to pay the milkman. I could never shop in PJs because I couldn't leave the house without a shower and clean knickers. And if you've got that far you might as well get dressed.

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