In not liking DP evening attire

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DP is 45. Wears quite trendy clothes. I think he looks great.
However. He has taken to slipping into something more comfortable in the evenings! Oh my goodness! He has got himself some tracksuit bottoms from primark. They are BAD! A plum colour, all baggy round the knees and bum. He came into the room last night wearing an old crumpled sweatshirt and the bottoms. My DD 12 was laughing and saying Dad you look like a hobo (light hearted, he was laughing aswell)
He has agreed for me to get him some 'loungewear' for Christmas. Budget is low! Any ideas? What do your DH DP wear for relaxing?!

OP saying “this is lighthearted” does nothing when the content isn’t actually lighthearted but is mean. If your DH looked like that character (can’t remember the name, I know it’s little Britain) then you’re dd should have said that, but she said he looked like a homeless person which he doesn’t, he looks like a specific comedy character. Why would a homeless person be a source of amusement?

Why can't clothes be comfy and attractive at the same time?

Because they don’t have to be. The person wearing them doesn’t have to provide an attractive appearance for their family. Comfort is the criteria. Some may choose to be comfortable and attractive but it’s certainly not a failing to be comfortable without maintaining an attractive appearance in your own home!

I can’t see the problem here. I wear my gym leggings at home sometimes, it’s comfortable.

Primark? how dare he, how very common.
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I knew as soon as I read the OP that all you'd get was comments about your daughter's remark. People on MN can't take a joke. They're either American or too easily offended.

I’m with you OP. It’s a slippery slope to slobbing around and not shaving legs to not making a bit of an effort to no effort at all. My DH had some that were awful! He realised this and has bought some different one. Still like cotton tracksuit bottoms and comfy but less scruffy looking. I also had an outfit similar and we both agreed it wasn’t the way forward. What everyone does in there own home is up to them. Yeah ok if you want to wear your pjs from 4pm or take your bra off the instant you get home but some of us don’t want to do that either.

Both DH and I aren’t great sleepers and one of the things we have found helps is literally keeping pjs for bed only. So get in from work uniforms off and comfy but not slobby clothes on until bed. It works for us.

Try places like Sainsbury’s or next op for DH.

The winner of this thread ......is FunkyKingston

You're lucky, i have to wear a taffeta ball gown before the cat will let me talk to her.

Blimey that was an attack! I think op was trying to keep it light!
While I’m all for people wearing what they like, I think I’d draw the line at baggy, plum coloured trackies! 😳

I’m with you on this OP. There’s nothing wrong with being comfortable but you can be clean and tidy at the same time. I change into ‘loungewear’, (soft pull-ons and top, don’t know what else to call it) when I get in but it’s always presentable even though there’s only the cat that’s has to look at me. 😄 When it’s starting to get past it’s best it goes into the rag bin at the supermarket.

My husband is a lover of tracksuit bottoms in the evenings. He gets in from work, showers and gets into his comfy pants and really tatty, old T-shirt's or even older exercise tops. I really couldn't care a less, he's comfy.

I laugh at my husband because he paid a fortune for a pair of grey nike joggers and I pair £5 in that there primark for a pair of grey joggers...his have gone all bobbly and mine are fine. Purple joggers though is a big NO NO.

Jesus, remove your fingers from your bums , it IS lighthearted- unless you are humourless.y DH wears pj bottoms and a t-shirt OP. Still looks rough, but can answer the door without scaring the neighbourhood.
Purple joggers? Just no. Unless paired with a white, stained vest, in which case, sex on legs 😍😍

Post in style and beauty, you'll get more reasoned responses.

I think I’d draw the line at baggy, plum coloured trackies

I think that’s amongst one of the strangest comments I’ve read on MN.

They were new trackies. Clean Trackies. Your objecting is to the colour plum? Is plum just a colour no-one should wear?

He's at home a relaxing. I honestly don't see the problem.

This post is horrible. And I don't mean the teasing your DH. Please don't encourage your daughter to use the term Hobo. It's really mean and downgrading to homeless people.

I knew as soon as I read the OP that all you'd get was comments about your daughter's remark. People on MN can't take a joke.

Jokes are supposed to br funny.

They're either American or too easily offended.

Nice bit of xenophobia.

Post in style and beauty, you'll get more reasoned responses.

Not with OPs like that.

good grief, some posters have some kind of humour bypass today, so much angst!

OP, ignore them, the hobo comment is clearly lighthearted and everyone in the RL understand perfectly what you mean.

I change when I go home, mainly because my work clothes cost a bomb and don't need to be ruined too quickly, so I get it.
If someone wants to put on different clothes, fair enough, but why on earth do they wear uncomfortable clothes in the first place is that the only issue?

I think buying your DH some better looking clothes for Christmas is the way forward. Just have a look online, ASOS, Topman, Next and so on, and buy similar from Primark or TKMaxx.

Bit of a shame if you make effort for everybody else but your family. It sounds as weird as people who clean and tidy their home for visitors only. I don't understand the reasoning there either.

Basic respect for yourself and your close ones is the way forward.

Take your bra off when you get home shock. Really? Why?!

Home is where the bra isn't!

I think i have the same trackies from primark

*the hobo comment is clearly lighthearted and everyone in the RL understand perfectly what you mean.

No, sorry, that comment simply cannot be lighthearted. No matter how everyone around takes it. It’s a comment designed to ridicule someone for looking like a homeless person. A person who cannot wash or keep themselves presentable because they have no home. That’s not funny. That’s not the basis for any joke. The appearance of a homeless person is not funny. It’s a huge issue. Homelessness is a huge issue, people set up mobile showering facilities, free hair cuts, suit loans etc for homeless people because they are hugely disadvantaged by their appearance. They face discrimination and abuse because of how they look. It’s is 100% unnacceptable to make that the basis of a joke. It is in no way lighthearted.

My dh is a very strange breed of human and will sit around in his jeans all evening

Eh?!! I honestly don't get it. What do you think wouldn't be strange?

I live in jeans, FWIW!

VictoryOrValhalla
there's always one. Good on you to be offended on someone's behalf

You don't have to agree with a joke, it's a free country. I am still free to make joke of whatever I wish just not with everybody