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AIBU?

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

117 replies

salsmum · 22/02/2014 00:09

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. Shock 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? Confused. 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. Grin

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lokidoki · 22/02/2014 10:40

I saw a woman in her 20s in a onesie in Tesco last night. I wasn't feeling too judgey until I saw her from the back and it was right up her bum crack. It was obviously too small and must have been sooooo uncomfortableConfused

Catsize · 22/02/2014 10:46

I don't understand why adults want to wear giant babygros at all, but there we go.

ZingSweetMango · 22/02/2014 10:52

blame Whoopi Goldberd for wearing one in Ghost!Grin

ZingSweetMango · 22/02/2014 10:52

*Goldberg

Shockers · 22/02/2014 11:00

I walk the dog in my pajamas and wellies. I do have waterproof trousers and a coat over them though... and it is 6am.

mrsjay · 22/02/2014 11:04

i am usually really laid back but THIS DRIVES ME INSANE put bloody clothes on if i see another teenage girl out in her pjs i might need to say something onsies and fleecey jarmars are for indoors I see a young girl about 17 walking about our village in pyjamas all the time i am starting to wonder if she has no clothes Angry

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 22/02/2014 11:14

I went to the co-op in my pj's and dressing gown as a student. Was quite fun. No one batted an eyelid (posh part of Bristol). Wouldn't make a habit of it but don't knock it till you've tried it. But do it under 30 for gods sake. There are some things where ageism is appropriate

Caitlin17 · 22/02/2014 11:43

I've never seen anyone out in public in their pyjamas or a "onesie" (and as an aside what a vile word, well up there with "moist")

I have on occasions put a long coat and boots on top of my pyjamas if I have had to be up early at the weekend to do something like dropping my son off, shifting the car on to a residents ' parking space before 8.30 and I intend going back to bed.

So far as "onesies" why anyone over the age of 4 would want to wear a babygro either in public or private escapes me. They are hideous.

Imnotmadeofeyes · 22/02/2014 11:46

There seem to be pockets round here where it's acceptable to wear pj's/onesies. You never see it in the Tesco up the road but go to the next one over and it's practically the customer uniform.

I was on the bus to a physio appointment last week and a girl got on in her pj's. I did judge, well until we both got off at the same stop and got in the same lift to the same department..... I'll let her off Grin

Have to say the couple of times I've had to trudge out in the dark to find a renegade cat in the back garden I've thought how much warmer my dressing gown is than my coat. I could get on board with that trend (but with proper day clothes underneath - I'm not a heathen).

Tryharder · 22/02/2014 11:57

I've never seen anyone out during the day in pyjamas. And I would judge them if I did! It's ridiculous and slovenly.

I look fairly dreadful on school runs but at least I am wearing appropriate clothes. How much effort does it take to put on jeans and a jumper?

Fathertedfan · 22/02/2014 13:31

A lady roughly in her late twenties was wearing sponge bob pjs last week in a very busy Ikea on Sunday morning. Her mother had pjs on as well. The assorted 5 small children they had with them were all fully dressed, however.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 22/02/2014 15:04

Yes, it looks unkempt and slatterny. The 'old' definition for 'slut' wasn't as people apply it today (in 'slag') but sluttish meaning that no pride, care taken over the home or presenting self.

Adults out and about in onesies look strange and whether they're clean or not, they don't look it. I say nothing, what is there to say? They don't care how they look anyway.

IneedAsockamnesty · 22/02/2014 16:00

I look fairly dreadful on school runs but at least I am wearing appropriate clothes. How much effort does it take to put on jeans and a jumper?

Perhaps some people don't like wearing jeans

AgentZigzag · 22/02/2014 16:27

I thought Tryharder meant that jeans/jumper is minimum effort to put on pixie, not talking specifically about wearing those items but rather wearing something that has the equivalent effort of throwing them on?

IneedAsockamnesty · 22/02/2014 16:39

I expect she was,but so what.

Perhaps people like wearing onesies outdoors I know I wouldn't want to sleep in something with a hood and great big chunky pockets,perhaps they like wearing them more than jeans or dresses or leggings or anything else at all.

If someone wants to nip to the town centre wearing anything at all from a wedding dress to a onesie as long as they are covered so what,why care at all

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 22/02/2014 16:41

Because people do try to dress conventionally - or be attention-seeking. One or the other.

I don't think that anybody really cares whether somebody looks a certain way but they may look at them because they look 'odd' to them.

supermariossister · 22/02/2014 16:43

am not a fan, I am very much in the when you get out of bed you get washed and dressed camp. I don't understand the full make up and perfect hair with pjs on, would it of took much more effort to put clothes on.

JohnCusacksWife · 22/02/2014 16:47

I can't abide sitting about the house in my PJs in the morning but conversely I can't relax in the evening if I'm still in my day clothes. I have to change into my lounging PJs as soon as I'm in in the evening. Although I should add they don't ever actually get slept in...would hate to sit about in crushed up PJs I've worn to bed.

Piscivorus · 22/02/2014 16:56

I think it's a total lack of standards. My grandparents were your typical salt of the earth working class folk, poor but proud, house always clean, children always well-mannered even when they struggled to put food on the table. Nan always looked askance at the type of woman who would go outdoors with curlers in or wearing slippers. I look at this sort of thing and wonder what they would make of it

World's going to hell in a handcart.

IneedAsockamnesty · 22/02/2014 16:59

It's hardly not being conventional,loads of people do it,it's not even really noticeable behaviour

Tailtwister · 22/02/2014 17:03

YANBU, it's completely bizarre! I particularly hate seeing people doing the school run in pyjamas. It shows such a lack of respect and a bad example to the children. It doesn't take much to put some clothes on and brush your teeth.

ShitOnAStick · 22/02/2014 17:03

YABU, why do you care if someone else can't be arsed to get dressed? I don't even own a onesie and would never go out in my pjs but if other people want to do it that's fine. Bet they're comfortable.

JohnCusacksWife · 22/02/2014 17:04

Always make me wonder if they can't be arsed getting dressed what else can't they be arsed to do? Wash? Shower? Ugh....

fluffiphlox · 22/02/2014 17:11

Last summer, I saw the same young woman on several occasions at Euston station with a head full of pink rollers at 0745. Full face of make up, nicely dressed and big pink rollers.

Pipbin · 22/02/2014 17:23

Wasn't there a school that banned mothers from doing the school run in PJs?
I have seen woman doing that on the end of the day school run, why would they do that, morning I understand but after school?

I saw a teenager today following behind her mother in a onesie today. Why do that?
I've also seen a teenage boy sat in the John Lewis cafe in a onesie!