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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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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 22/02/2014 17:42

I don't know how a school could actually BAN somebody from doing a school run in pyjamas but really, why would anybody want to? Pyjamas/nighties are not for going out in. I wouldn't have been allowed to do that as a child and certainly wouldn't want to as an adult.

It just looks very, very strange and a bit grotty when you reach adult age. It certainly doesn't look cute or appealing and as for rollers... just why? It's attention-seeking.

moldingsunbeams · 22/02/2014 17:48

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ferretyfeet · 22/02/2014 17:51

I hate them.I wouldn't even wear one at home with the curtains drawn

Nancy66 · 22/02/2014 17:53

Being slobbish I get, not being arsed I get, looking a scruff I get - but going out in your night clothes I don't.

It's not like pulling a pair of jeans and a jumper on is that much hassle is it? I mean it takes all of - what - 30 seconds?

IneedAsockamnesty · 22/02/2014 18:01

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!

You could often see my teenagers and friends wearing onsies with me in John Lewis cafe they find them easy to put on due to being disabled they are warm and we dot have to make any major adaptions to them,it helps them to feel independent. Is that quite alright with you?

DinahLady · 22/02/2014 18:07

YANBU. Saw someone in my local supermarket the other evening in their pyjama bottoms. WHY?! For the love of God, get dressed! It's not hard!
Look so slack and lazy.
I've never seen the appeal of onesies, either. They're like a giant adult babygro. Confused

MehQueen · 22/02/2014 18:13

Love 'em or hate 'em, at least onesies save us from seeing arse cracks.

Pipbin · 22/02/2014 18:14

I'm not going to dignify that with an answer Sock.

IneedAsockamnesty · 22/02/2014 19:11

Why not pip.

For all you know one of my kids could have been the teenager you were so shocked to see in John Lewis cafe that it required an exclamation mark.

After all 2 of mine don't look disabled,if you didn't know they were you certainly couldn't tell

Sparklingbrook · 22/02/2014 19:53

I find getting into my Onesie a real PITA and as for having a wee I have to hold my tail out of the loo.

cerealqueen · 22/02/2014 19:55

I have honestly never seen this but it wouldn't bother me, I gather its a 'look' as much as anything. Some people can be 'dressed' and look like they haven't bothered so what is the difference?

Doyouthinktheysaurus · 22/02/2014 20:03

I kind of agree with you but.....

I am often to be found after a night shift dropping my dses to school in my jimmies as it means 2 extra minutes sleep and I'll sometimes take DH to pick up the takeaway in my 'comfies'Blush

I don't get out the car on either occasion though....except when I forget what I'm wearing and get out anywayGrin

TheRealAmandaClarke · 22/02/2014 20:05

It's attention- seeking behaviour to go out in your pjs/ onesie IMHO.
It's not the same as cba/ sling on some sweats sort of thing.
But I'm not sure I'm that bothered by it.

nkf · 22/02/2014 20:09

I've never seen it.

Sparklingbrook · 22/02/2014 20:22

I would love to see it. TBF I haven't seen half the things that people on MN see.

People in PJs in the shops
Rows on the bus about prams
Cat poo in the garden

Etc....

nkf · 22/02/2014 20:29

I'm with you, Sparklingbrook. So many things I only hear about through MN. Wedding poems, FB wars, writing to school governors about matters concerning class teachers. It's always an education.

slightlyconfused85 · 22/02/2014 20:33

Yabu. I wouldn't do it, but it's up to people what they wear in their own time (i.e. not at work). There is no law, so it shouldn't really matter to you.

killpeppa · 22/02/2014 20:34

my neighbour goes to the shop in her pjs, drives there with cup of tea in hand, I SHIT YOU NOT!
I met her one day dandering around the spar with said cuppa...

Babyturnip · 22/02/2014 20:40

I visit my friends house on a Sunday night for our regular catch up, I always pop to tesco express to grab some bits for us and usually it is dead quiet. So last Sunday we had a lazy day and I was all comfy in my pjs, decided to brave it to tesco express, it will be dead quiet I thought. Wrong, it was rammed, so so so embarrassing I will never do it again.... Probably :)

phantomnamechanger · 22/02/2014 20:46

now, on occasion, I can be a slobby as the best of them - we all had a day of "stay in PJs all day and not shower just because we could as we were not going out anywhere" day the other day. would NEVER go out in pubic in PJs - other than wandering round a campsite but that's very different.

I don't get the ones who shop in PJs/onesies - and I really need to know whether they change into clean ones again for bed or sleep in the clothes dirtied by the outside world.

CustardOmlet · 22/02/2014 20:50

I wear my onesie/pjs to the end of the drive, there is an invisible force field at this point that will cause me no end of pain should I wear it any further. I feel everyone should have one installed as a legal requirement.

CustardOmlet · 22/02/2014 20:52

Killpepper You have given me stitch from laughing. Is it a proper cup or a thermos type cup?

Dinnaeknowshitfromclay · 22/02/2014 20:53

I used to live opposite a posh primary school and it was astonishing the number of pyjama/dressing gown wearing Mums that were dropping off their little darlings. I had a skip delivered once and as the truck driver pulled away he got stuck. I towed him out with my car and a 4x4 owner wearing a rather fetching arrangement complete with pom-pommed slippers helped too. She was standing in the street with her dressing gown flapping in the wind completely without irony. I thanked her as I felt she was brave to not just drive by but to stop and help.
The vet I work has a random night attire wearing client at least once a month. Usually women but there is a bloke with a shortie dressing gown. All a bit unfortunate! Lifes rich tapestry eh? Wink

BrokenToeOuch · 22/02/2014 20:54

See, this is one of those things that people are outraged about but I genuinely don't care if I see it. I wouldn't be seen dead in one myself, but then, I also wouldn't be seen dead in a fleece, but I really don't give a hoot that other people wear them. Each to their own!

Innermagic · 22/02/2014 21:00

I see people doing the school run in pjs I just think it's so sad, my mother would never of done this even if you put on yesterday's clothes it would only take two mins to get dressed..... No excuse!