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To no understand taking your dc(s) to school wearing your pyjamas?

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MolotovCocktail · 08/03/2013 09:22

I don't get it.

I don't mean a one-off: I've seen it happen quite a few times.

Maybe it's more a reflection on me, as I'm just about okay being seen without make-up. I see myself as a representative of my DD and I'd rather be late than take her in wearing my dressing gown. I'd also feel an utter dickhead.

I understand being pushed for time and the priority getting your dc(s) washed and dressed but, still. Why not just put some jogging bottoms and a top on? Why wear fleecy pjs?

AIBU?

OP posts:
Willdoitinaminute · 08/03/2013 22:20

I once saw woman waiting for taxi outside Tescos wearing only PJs fluffy slippers and pink dressing gown. It was -15C and there was snow on the ground and it was 4pm. I was very tempted to offer her a tenner to go back in and buy herself some warmer clothes.
It does seem to be a fashion statement around these parts.
In never wear PJs so I have to get dressed to do school run!

Sallystyle · 08/03/2013 22:24

YABU Major pet peeve of mine.

It takes second to stick some trousers on with a jacket or something.

Don't get me started on the teens walking around in onesies Grin although they are teens so can get away it more than adults!

Shorty1980 · 08/03/2013 23:12

I sometimes wear a onesie on the morning school run because onesies are warm and mornings are bloody cold. I wouldn't wear a onesie to bed though so I don't consider it nightwear.

Last time it snowed I did the school run in a onesie with a fur coat over the top and wellies on. And they say you can't buy class Smile

HousewifeFromHeaven · 08/03/2013 23:24

I'm the same as detective

pourmeanotherglass · 08/03/2013 23:33

never really seen it at our school.

I have a couple of times popped to the corner shop (a few doors away) with an ankle length coat over my jamas to get the paper on a Saturday morning so I can bring it back to read in bed.

AudrinaAdare · 08/03/2013 23:58

I wear oversized (DH's cast-offs) sweatshirts, t-shirts and trackies around the house, answer the door in them and would wear them under a coat in winter or with a bra in summer if I had to do the school run or nip to the local shop.

The 'jama-wearing contingent where I live look immaculate. Curlers placed perfectly, full face of make-up and spotlessly clean and Shock ironed clothes. It's just a fashion. They're not going to the school gate in pyjama bottoms which have been worn with no knickers and have residual period / discharge stains on them. Not that I have owned any such item in my really skint days

LeoandBoosmum · 09/03/2013 00:06

This is one of my pet hates. I can understand time pressure in the mornings but, really, how long does it take to throw on some jeans and a sweatshirt? It's pure laziness and a bad example to children. It's bad enough seeing women in pyjamas dropping their children off in the morning, it's dire when you see them turn up to pick them up...STILL in their pyjamas but with the addition of egg or bean stains on the front! Shock

vvviola · 09/03/2013 00:21

Iteotwa - I suspect part of the reason they don't do it in NZ, is that at this time of year, the outfits might be a little on the revealing side!

Mind you, a year later, I still can't get used to people walking down the street or into shopping centres with no shoes on Grin

catlady1 · 09/03/2013 00:24

Hmm I would get dressed in a morning but I wouldn't think twice about answering the door or taking the dog out for a wee at night in my PJs. I don't think I'd go to the shops in them. I'm one of those people who have to have full make-up on to leave the house though, I don't judge others for being less insecure about what people think of them - in fact I'm quite envious.

TheCatInTheHairnet · 09/03/2013 00:27

Here in the US, plaid pjs bottoms, hoodie (with your swim team/football team/high school on) and Uggs are very normal attire. If you're 14. Any older than that, it's a sin. And Ewwww at grown adults in onesies!!

OutragedFromLeeds · 09/03/2013 00:31

YANBU to not understand it.

YABU to think that you need to understand the motivation behind everyone elses behaviour.

Someone wearing pyjamas to school doesn't harm you, or your child, or them, or their child, or in fact anyone.

You'd feel an utter dickhead, they evidently don't. Fine.

Find something more interesting to occupy your mind would be my advice to you.

MichelleRooJnr · 09/03/2013 00:38

I picked a child up from nursery last week in pjs!
At 5:30pm!

I'd been on night shift, had just got up and my friend phoned in a panic at 5:25 to say she was stuck in traffic about a minute's drive away and could I please get her daughter from nursery before they closed at 5:30 (she gave me a secret code word to be allowed to get her)
The nursery is at the end of my street.
I really only had time to pull on boots and a coat so it might not have been very obvious I was wearing pjs apart from the stripey trousers.
But I was.
And had bed hair and no make up.

Not that it bothered me at all - so what if I'm not dressed? What difference if I'm wearing jeans or pjs - so long as child gets collected?

ravenAK · 09/03/2013 00:52

There's a really easy solution - stop buying pyjamas!

Who needs them?

Afaic, when t-shirts & leggings/tracksuit bottoms get a bit too tatty for daytime wear, they become pyjamas. But still look sufficiently like 'real' clothes to pass muster on a potter to the corner shop for milk.

I just don't understand pyjamas. All they are is a t-shirt & loose trews, right? Often with a Daffy Duck print or whatever, presumably to remind you that you are only allowed to wear them in bed. Unlike the otherwise identical Daffy-free outfit (plain t-shirt, jogging bottoms/leggings) that you are 'allowed' to wear to Tescos or on the school run.

It's all just 'scruffs', whether you are wearing it to make tea or muck out the stable. I prefer to save the worrying about clothes for work or going-out things.

MusicalEndorphins · 09/03/2013 08:19

I can only see (myself) wearing them in public if being taken to the hospital in an emergency situation. I love my pj's and wear them whenever I can, but only in the privacy of my own home.

coffeeismywine · 09/03/2013 08:23

A salutory tale for you ladies.

My friend used to regularly take her kids to school in her pjs and dressing gown. She would drive to school, drop the kids off, go home, clean and then get showered and dressed. Then she put her car in the hedge one icy morning last winter.

She gets dressed now. Or she may do th

coffeeismywine · 09/03/2013 08:24

posted too soon

the go to bed in your joggers thing. But she definitely doesn't go in her pjs any more.

Eastpoint · 09/03/2013 08:27

I have seen friends do it when they have felt hungover exhausted and are going straight back to bed. However they have been dropping off children by car & have coats on over the top so no one would know (probably shouldn't have been driving on reflection). I think it's probably easier to do with older children as then they can make their own breakfast.

thegreylady · 09/03/2013 08:33

My dc had ponies when they were young and I often got up very early on show days to feed and plait before travelling. The stables were a short drive away. One morning I decided to wear my dressing gown over my PJ's so I could have a shower back at home. My dressing gown was pink and fluffy.
The sight of it was enough to send a normally placid animal into a whinnying tailspin of terror which set off all the other ponies in the yard and brought the owner out with a shotgun to find me giggling uncontrollably while chaos reigned around me. I never left the house in night attire again :-)

noddyholder · 09/03/2013 08:45

I never wear pjs in bed though.

PetiteRaleuse · 09/03/2013 08:53

Only ever heard of this on here. Next trip to the UK I'm going to be hanging round the school gates in the morning and then legging itto Tesco to see if I spot any.

flippinada · 09/03/2013 08:56

I've never actually seen this in three plus years of doing the school run.

Where does it happen?

seeker · 09/03/2013 13:33

Grin today I took dp to the station for 6.00, dcluluttered the car and put oil in it, collected ds from a sleepover, took him to football, did horses and collected ds from football. All in my pyjamas.

My heart sang all the time thinking about this thread............!

everlong · 09/03/2013 13:38

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noddyholder · 09/03/2013 13:39

Grin Maybe all the people who say they have never seen anyone have but just haven't noticed because it is not such a big deal!

Dededum · 09/03/2013 13:40

Friends hubby, drove son to school about 30 minutes in his pyjamas. No reason to leave car. Not feeling very well ending up vomiting by the side of the road in his jim jams.