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Called "unprofessional" for doing the school run in PJs

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Pollyisnthere · 24/09/2015 18:24

Snide comment from someone else. Wtf should i wear for a professional school drop off? I do live in my PJs and love it while I'm not working. Often have two pairs a day so its not dirty. Aibu to do this?

OP posts:
Sunsoo · 25/09/2015 19:41

Mumsnet at its worst...

This is why we get called a nest of vipers!

Sparklingbrook · 25/09/2015 19:48

Mumsnet at it's strangest more like.

sleepyelectricsheep · 25/09/2015 20:06

sproketmx Grin

Lweji · 25/09/2015 20:08

This is why we get called a nest of vipers!

Really? You think? This thread is so tame and naice. :)

StDogolphin · 25/09/2015 20:24

Only if you are the teacher...

bessarabiantiger · 25/09/2015 20:28

On Monday, just for you, I am going to wear my onesie (I have a onesie, we live in the country and it gets bloody cold, it's like wearing a duvet and I refuse to be ashamed) accompanied by sensible heels, an up-do, fascinator, gloves, pearls (no diamonds before lunch) full make-up, a silk scarf and a briefcase.

I shall report back on whether this is, or is not, considered unprofessional. I'll even ask the Head, she's quite used to that sort of behaviour from me and remains charmingly unruffled.

As for myself, the amount of notice I take of what people do or do not wear to move from one place to another is best illustrated with the attached image.

You do you.

Called "unprofessional" for doing the school run in PJs
AnyoneButAndre · 25/09/2015 20:45

Highly entertained by the idea that perfume, BB cream and lippy is necessary for the school run. Only if you're trying to pull the teacher who's on playground duty surely? What's actually necessary for the school run is outerwear that covers your body and is ideally missing holes, smells and visible stains.

PaulAnkaTheDog · 25/09/2015 20:48

Timbies, not heard of them in a looooooong time.

thegiddylimit · 25/09/2015 21:08

I live in the NE but in a naice area and I can report that I have seen exactly one person in the last 4 years wearing pyjamas on the school run, and that was a 6 year old who was off school because she was sick but had to come in with her Mum to pick up her brother. She looked very ill poor thing.

Like it or not, if I saw someone wearing pyjamas on the school run I'd assume alcoholism or depression. Because it's a sign you are too ill to care about basic social conventions.

StealthPolarBear · 25/09/2015 21:08

Dying to know where you are :)

sproketmx · 25/09/2015 21:21

Haha. I have too many kids and too much other stuff to worry about without infringing basic social conventions Grin luckily I don't live in a naice area so I don't have to worry about Wtf anyone thinks of what I'm wearing. Brew

Gruntfuttock · 25/09/2015 21:39

sproketmx When I read your posts I get a mental image of Rab C Nesbit in drag. Grin

sproketmx · 25/09/2015 22:30

Haha, naw but he looks a bit like my dad. I'm 5ft7, 11 Stone, bleach blonde sort of curlyish hair down to just past my boobs currently sat on the kitchen bunker in my adidas hoodie and hubby's trackies waiting for my washing machine to finish so I can get my work overalls in the tumble. Besides rabs fae Govan, am fae oakley Grin Wink an av goat a joab

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 25/09/2015 22:47

Well many many years ago I took my dss to school in my satin pjs, and fluffy slippers. Was working from home, had slept in, and just thought 'oh, can get ready when I get home at some point. No point in him being late so I can get dressed'

Dropped him, all well, until leaving school by the extremely narrow driveway when I ran out of fucking petrol!! I shit you not. Just put my hazards on, put my head on the steering wheel and thought 'shite!'

Of course, it was all young good looking men, who came to my aid and I was fucking mortified!! Especially as the one who took me home to get my purse, drove me to the bp to fill his Gerry can, then back to fill my (shoved to the side so the five hundred cars could leave the school and witness my humiliation) car, turned out to be of quite a high standing in our local community.

Always chucked on jeans and a jumper after that funnily enough. The looks of confusion and people looking down their nose were enough once for me!

sproketmx · 25/09/2015 23:12

^that is why I always carry diesel!

SuckingEggs · 25/09/2015 23:15

It's just slovenly. I will judge. It takes less than a minute to shove jeans on.

whois · 25/09/2015 23:31

When I was at uni, and really hungover, once or twice I put a hoody on and drive to the McDonald's drive through in my PJs. I thought that was quite bad.

Anyway, you can just wear yoga pants and a baggy work out top which are just as scruffy and comfy as PJs but if you pay £90 a piece from sweaty Betty and so therefore acceptable :-)

FartemisOwl · 25/09/2015 23:37

I wouldn't do it personally, but then I won't even answer the door in PJ's or before shower time. But I do know people who do all this and the school run in them and I sort of admire them for not giving a shit what anyone thinks.

pandarific · 26/09/2015 11:45

I love that all of the slovenly slatternly scaffs (let's use 1950s words! yay!) have come out to play in the latter pages of this thread. Hello! Pajama party? I have a popcorn maker!

Anyway, you have to put on a bra and make sure your clothes and shoes match when you get dressed. Inevitably you cannot find one of the elements of the outfit - much searching ensues. Then you realise your hair is sticking up like a cockatoo - much flattening ensues. Then you get disheartened and have a sit down - much contemplate the fact that the ice caps are melting and we're all just ephemeral specks in the vastness of the universe ensues.

And all you wanted was some milk.

whattheseithakasmean · 26/09/2015 12:15

PJs on the school run make me think of Waynetta Slob: 'I am 'aving a faag'. In fact, one poster seems to be doing a good take of a Scottish version - great stuff, it all adds to the general gaiety of the nations.

catkind · 26/09/2015 12:28

I have an idea, let's all stage a revolution and all refuse to buy clothes that are less comfortable than our PJs. Why should you wear uncomfortable clothes just for the sake of convention? It's all completely arbitrary and driven by consumerism anyway. Let's set a fashion for comfort instead.

Today I'm wearing a stretchy cord skirt, a loose cotton top and a lovely snuggly hoodie. No idea if I'd pass the judgy test but I'm comfy. Just as good as PJs.

sproketmx · 26/09/2015 14:13

Haha. Been years since I was called a scaff Grin waited for the wee brat outside the school gates n she never did that again. Funny thing is all my pals were havin a right laugh at how uptight and posh and hyacinth bucket loads of you are. If all uv got to bother about in life is how u look to the ouside world the fuck me you've never lived.

Sparklingbrook · 26/09/2015 14:14

I need Google translate. Confused

Lweji · 26/09/2015 14:36

sproketmx

You seem to bother just as much as anyone one else on this thread. To start with you are here discussing it. And I'm sure you don't go to work or normally go out and about on pjs. So, you do care.

I don't need a revolution to dress comfortably. Most of my clothes are comfortable, except for bras, which have to be a bit tight around the ribcage.

BreadPitt · 26/09/2015 14:51

I confess when I drop DD off in a morning up the road from her college I am frequently wearing my PJ top or nightshirt under a hoodie and my jeans. I drop her off (no interaction with anyone else) then go home, shower, change and put my face on. I don't think I could do it if I had to actually get out and greet folk, though it has occurred to me if I have an accident and I'm in the car in my Jurassic Park pyjamas it could be a little mortifying.