Pyjamas In Hotels

[CowesTwo]

There was a thread recently discussing people wearing pjs in public. We just got back to our hotel and the lift stopped at the floor with the bar, the doors opened and a woman got in wearing pyjamas and slippers and carrying a bottle of wine. She seemed a bit surprised to see us in the lift and we all got off at the same floor. I wouldn’t be brave enough to go to the bar in a hotel dressed like that, but I had to admire her chutzpah. Aibu to think folk should at least throw on some clothes before appearing in public?

tessliketrees yes wrong phrase. In my defence I am very tired. I meant health care professional.

I would do it. A choice between getting undressed and dressed twice in 5 minutes or being judged by strangers - I would take the judgement every time. Life is too short.

I stay in the same hotel every year and I often see people in their pyjamas at breakfast

I’d find a different hotel!

Wouldn’t do it myself, but people who get worked up about other people’s clothing choices must lead unspeakably dull livesx (not you OP as you were just interested, I am referring to the pearl clutching horrified posters.)

I once wore pjs to the theatre (in response to an earlier post). A bird crapped on my outfit and I was in New York and had just bought some PJs so I got changed.
I was remarkably comfortable

Do you think we might observe a few people at the royal wedding wearing their pyjamas, as they got up a bit late to dress properly ? Not the Queen though, I think she wears a nice warm nightie to bed.

I've been down to reception to get water in my pjs - the hotel was very rural and it told you not to drink the tap water - and we ran out of bottled. Didn't really think twice tbh - who cares? I sometimes nip out to get something from the car in my jammies too, or hang the washing on my line in my overlooked garden. Again, who really cares? If someone turned up to an interview in pjs and I was the interviewer I might judge, but it'd be my job in that situation. Otherwise what other people wear is of zero interest quite frankly, unless it has a racist slogan emblazoned across it or something.

To be honest when I see people wandering about in public in their PJs I just think they are slobs.

Again, who really cares?

People care a lot apparently. It's one of the great mysteries of the modern age.

I doubt people care a lot, we don’t hear of stories of PJ wearers getting confronted in the street or down the supermarket, but people do notice and think to themselves that they are a bit lazy and setting a poor example to any kids in tow.

It’s no different to when I see the shirtless man swaggering down the street carrying a can of lager, I am not going to confront him, I am just going to think he looks like a twat.

@PanGalaticGargleBlaster

It's relative isn't it? Caring at all about something that you objectively shouldn't care about is a lot.

But why didn't she just call room service?

For me it's not caring - it's judgement.

I just can't get worked up about this.

Although I wouldn't get worked up about it, I personally wouldn't do it. It takes less than two mins to shove a pair of jeans and a jumper on. It's a public bar and I'd have no desire to go in in what was obviously pyjamas.

It was night time. She was in a place whose remit is to provide a space for people to sleep in (and therefore wearing nightwear) and she was just popping down to get supplies. Meh, can't get my knickers in a twist about that. Jammies a breakfast is unnecessary though.

I used to nip to the Sainsbury's on Tottenham Court Road in my lunch and there is a leisure centre with an open air swimming pool near-by and I would, on occasion, see women in bikinis buying their lunch. No t-shirt or sarong. Nothing. Just an itty bitty bikini and flip flops.

I found that a step to far, not because of how they looked, but because it caused me to wonder why they weren't worried about chilblains as they browsed the frozen aisle. I just don't want to contemplate frostbitten nipples whilst paying for a tuna melt.

Honestly the idea that some pearl clutchers might have judged me doesn't change my opinion that it wasn't worth changing. Tbh this is one of the things I love about living in London is that people on the whole seem to care less about clothes. In my hometown there were rules about trainers in pubs and other nonsense.

Even in London you'd be judged for wearing pyjamas in public places.

I wouldn't do it, it looks ridiculous, but different strokes and all that.

@longestlurkerever who wants to drink in places that think sports wear is a good look on a night out?

@Creambun2

Another way of phrasing that is-

"Who would want to drink somewhere that let's the kind of people in who would wear sports wear on a night out?"

Or

"I don't want to be in the same place as people who would wear sports wear to have drink in the evening".

Would you agree?

Me i guess! Tend to live in my converse. Not pyjamas generally.

What about camping? We go a lot and people wander around at all times of morning and evening in Pjs myself included. I did raise an eyebrow at a woman in pjs and slippers at 1pm last bank holiday :)

Even in London you'd be judged for wearing pyjamas in public places

Of course you would. Particularly a hotel bar. London is no different to anywhere else in that regard.