To think you should get dressed to go shopping

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Went into local town today and there were two women wandering around the shopping centre in their pyjamas and dressing gowns.

I mean really, it's not hard to throw a pair of jeans and a jumper on is it ?

Dog walker here. When I take dog out first thing for 5 to 10 mins, I don't roll around on the ground with him, I walk through the AIR, you know, the stuff that's clean enough to fill our lungs. When I come in, I sit on my sofa In The Same Clothes. Sorry if that makes anyone feel faint.

It's slovenly behaviour - inexcusable attention seeking by scruffs.

I am building up the energy to pull on jeans to take the recycling out! I am sick but don’t want neighbours to see me in m y pjs!

That's how you identify the gypsies round where I live. Dressing gown wrapped around their pyjamas with a comfy pair of slippers on, pushing a Morrisons trolley up the road.

100% with you on this OP. Was only talking about it the other with my DM.

The only time I’ve ever left the house in my PJ’s is late at night to grab something from my car that I’ve left in there and need (if I don’t need it, it can stay in the car until the morning as long as it isn’t valuable). So it’s dark and nobody can see me. And even then I’ve thrown my jeans or a big jacket on top to cover myself up. I would never even entertain going to the shops in PJ’s. I just think it looks trampy.

"Always look neat when you're in the street because you never know who you might meet." :)

It's common in my local supermarket.

It's common anywhere!

I’m guilty of throwing on some jeans and a coat over my pj top for the school run when I’m off work. Can’t imagine going out with pjs on show or a dressing gown. I was at a big park today and saw a little girl in pyjamas with wellies and a rain coat over the top! So bizarre but I suppose you never the know the circumstances.

Since you're asking, yes I agree, complete slobs.

I quite often see young women getting out of mini buses at motorway service stations in pyjamas, fluffy dressing gowns, slippers and a head full of massive big rollers. They always seem to have a full face of make up and fake eyelashes, so it can't be that they are up late or too lazy to bother with grooming. Very odd.

I’m going to get slated for asking this question but I’m going to anyway. Did you hear the pyjama/dressing gown/slipper wearing women speak? Did they have Irish accents and very thick black eyebrows? Just asking...

I ended up in the library in pyjamas once.

My brother had inadvertently locked us both out of the house by closing the door after we had stepped out, briefly I thought, to look at something in the back garden. The guilty party was wearing normal clothes. I wasn't.

We went to the library to look up the phone number of a locksmith. The pyjamas I was wearing were quite fetching with cute little dogs all over but still ...

So sometimes there's an unfortunate backstory to this sort of fashion faux pas and sympathy, not condemnation, is called for.

I noticed a lady wearing pyjamas in the supermarket, then I noticed a man also wearing tartan pj's and a woman in a fluffy onesie.
Right before I pulled my judgy pants on I realised all the staff had them on for children in need.

You could be walking past people everyday that are walking around in 'daytime clothes' that they have slept in maybe even many nights previously.

Going out in public in the PJs you’ve just slept in...why? I would feel judged answering the door to the postman like this, as in “what a lazy cow”!
If its an emergency - obviously no problem...but to choose to do the whole dressing gown and slippers get-up for no reason? Surely wouldn’t take long to quickly get dressed! Can’t help thinking of the chaffing and wobbling if genuinely just got out of bed in PJs with no bra and pants on. The ones that put on a fresh pair of PJs on, full make-up etc....WTF!

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Rather that than noisy people. That's what I can't stand particularly in supermarkets which are hellish enough as it is.

I don’t really care what other people do, so long as they’re not harming anyone/damaging property. I wouldn’t do it, no but then again my pjs are jogging bottoms and t-shirts and I wear those kind of clothes all the time.

“If you think about it, the fact that we all wear similar styles of fabric over our bodies in order to fit in and appear like everybody else is pretty weird. If the fabric covers your privates and stops you getting cold, why does it matter what it looks like? Because society says so? I'm not a big fan of doing things just because lots of people say I should.”

This.

I once got taken to hospital in an ambulance in my PJs and dressing gown. I felt a right tramp getting a taxi back home the next day! Why people do it by choice I have no idea!

I'm just watching the advert where the woman is " getting her money's worth" by wearing her wedding dress to a business meeting.

If you can't work out why nightwear is not appropriate for shopping during the day I don't understand why someone bother with nightwear at all. Why not just be in a big T shirt ? Why dress up for bed if your attitude is " why do people care what I wear"

It's about self respect, hygiene and self pride - you get dressed, you make your bed and you are ready for your day. People who can't be bothered are just lazy slob and embarrassing.

I am glad it's not that common.

Isn’t the real issue whether you’re obviously in nightwear or not? To those who throw a massive coat over a pair of tracksuit bottoms and a pyjama top, and all anyone sees is the coat, how are they to know you’re in your pyjamas?

That said, if you’re obviously in pyjamas I do reserve the right to judge. I once dropped my DD at school and saw a mum of a girl from her year walking the girl and her sister 200m (if that!) from their house to the school unmistakably in pjs and fluffy slippers. My jaw just dropped.

There is something inappropriately intimate about nightwear - seeing it makes me feel like I’m intruding in their bedroom, iyswim.

Absolutely.
How would people feel about their doctor or dentist wearing pjs? Going to parent's eve and seeing a teacher in them?
I know someone on here will claim it's fine, but, seriously?

Yuck. That's grim.
Pjs are for the house.

I have ONCE been out in mine when I had to drive to my pals and collect something. He opened the door in his pjs, we had a laugh about it and I went home.

Would never venture out in public otherwise.

This really annoys me when I see this, I have loads of question going round my head when I see this...

I couldn't believe what I saw boxing day, a woman was shopping in morrisons she was wearing jeans and a t-shirt but had thrown on a grubby dressing gown over the top....

I have no problem with it whatsoever. Love the fact that someone doesn’t give a toss what other people think. It’s not doing anyone any harm.