To think that if you're going out in public....

[salsmum]

You could at least get dressed! AIBU to hate seeing people walking around town/shops in either pjs or onesies? I know some younger people like their onesies but today I went to the hairdressers and out walked a woman (late 50s) in her pj bottoms at 2pm. do these people jump outta bed and just 'not bother' getting dressed or do they pop a onesie/pjs on clean as a form of dressing? . I'm one of those unlucky people who always bumps into boss/work mate/mate from the past etc...when I'm not looking too great I think I'd die if I would bump into the same people and I was sporting a 'Hello Kitty' onesie or an equally tacky Primarni cat/dog/giraffe print onesie/pjs disclaimer I'm not against pjs or onesies inside the home just in public.

One of the good things about this country is that people don't tend to criticise you in public, or care that much, about what you wear. Unlike many other places. For the sake of that tolerance, I'll put up with onesies.

In a shopping centre at around 3pm on a weekend. Two girls with their hair in rollers. Cannot remember if they were sporting onsies to finish their look as i was so shocked by their bravery for wearing rollers in public.

'One of the good things about this country is that people don't tend to criticise you in public, or care that much, about what you wear.'

I don't think that's right, we'd like to think it is, but no way!

I've always thought there was quite a strictly enforced etiquette when it comes to clothes.

If you are covered up, you are wearing clothes.

I took slutty to mean slovenly EatShitDerek (how did that MN name come about??) in a can't be arsed way.

Agent:
I have no clothes sense whatever, and wear rubbish clothes - whatever's comfortable. I wear only slightly smarter clothes to work in a professional role. People don't criticise me to my face (no doubt think I'm a rubbish dresser behind my back though).
I've heard from foreign friends that the British are far more tolerant of this kind of thing that people where they come from. I had a personal experience of this on visiting Germany. I was wearing my normal type of clothes and, at midday, went into a not posh concert hall to ask about buying a ticket for the evening performance. The woman there simply looked at me and said "You're not going to any concert dressed like that!".

Happy to judge any adult out in public in a onesie. There are some things you just don't do!

I'm a jeans/t-shirt person Quag, so no idea at all, but I do think that what a person chooses to wear does say something about them to other people, whether they want it to or not.

It's a non-verbal language, what you assume (as a first impression maybe) might prove to be wrong, but that doesn't stop the people using it to sum you up.

Ahh ESD

I agree Agent, that people pass judgement on you based on what you wear. But on the whole in this country people don't actually abuse you in the street due to you not being smartly or fashionably dressed. There isn't a view that there is a moral obligation on people to dress well, or similarly to others. I didn't understand why people thought that the British are tolerant until I went to Germany on holiday, where I was told off by strangers a good few times, eg for crossing the road without waiting for the traffic lights to change, despite there being no car in sight, for attempting to browse in a gift shop, for walking round a small supermarket without taking a basket first, for not being well dressed enough.

YABU

pjs are comfy.

I think wearing dressing gowns on the school run should be encouraged, or preferably made into law.
(especially as there are many stupid things are law now, this would actually be useful)

deakymom Slutty? Wtf?

OP YABU to care to the point of hate about what other people wear. Personally I wouldn't go out in my PJs but if someone else wants to then who cares!

Yeah Quag, maybe it's that I haven't got a lot to compare it with, because if you compare it to women being beaten with sticks because a bit of their ankle was on show in places like Iran, I suppose we look recliningly laid back.

I meant to laugh at the theatre judgement passed on you I hope you found a suitably cutting comeback and not when you were fuming about it when you got home

When I was 25 I went to the corner shop a couple of doors down in my PG bottoms a few times. I always had a coat on top though.

I have gone out in my PJs when ill (Early pregnancy, horrific vomitting bug, went for my blood tests in PJs), Late pregnancy when i had SPD and it was hard to put jeans on so i lived in leggings or PJ bottoms, and coming home from hospital (Didn't see the point in taking clothes to walk to the car, from the car to my front door, where i would enter and change back into PJs).

Wouldn't do it normally though.

I don't much care what anybody else wears as long as they are warm enough,

I think people who take the piss out of stuff other people wear are a bit silly

I do it (in my head) to make myself feel better pixie.

That's why most people do it.

If I see somebody out in their pjs I do silently have a 'bleck when did they last change their underweae' moment.

And onesies are rubbish. You get so COLD when you have to strip off for a pee.

I find it grim, and a bit of an eyesore. It makes people look lazy or depressed. It's civilized to have a sense of occasion.

Something on the news a while back about PJs in public being banned in China - apparently it had become the fashion for wealthy businessmen to walk about in PJs "just because they could" & it was lowering the tone!

Agree it looks pretty crap, careless, slovenly, awful really.

Do not go to Liverpool, on my first day in a job there I asked if I should have stopped to help the woman walking across the road in her pj's and got laughed at.

I now live in another town and they all do it here.

NumbToItNowTiggaxx

DS needed a lift late last night so I slung on my uggs and drove him in my fleecy pjs.
Couldn't care less what people choose to wear as long as their bits are covered up.