We havent all been wearing lounge wear for the last year!

[MrsLargeEmbodied]

Quite annoyed listening to a Fashion Expert for instance saying that people have been wearing lounge wear for the last year and change is on the horizon

we haven't all been lounging, yet alone wfm and feel it is narrow minded to say we were!
aibu to be annoyed
would you be annoyed.

I worked outside the home throughout but there was no where to go and nothing to do on my days off so yes when not in uniform I have worn loungewear for the last year 🙈

I don’t really understand what ‘loungewear’ is 🤔, PJ’s? Jogging bottoms? If so I often wear these at home but only in the winter. During the first lockdown I got dressed into normal clothing every day, didn’t ‘lounge around’.

So ‘no’ I don’t think it’s been fashionable to wear loungewear but I do think people bought less new clothing as we weren’t going out?

I agree with you not everyone was wfh. I wasn’t. But I still wore loungewear.

@MrsLargeEmbodied

but actually the pubs/restaurants and nightclubs have been open for a while, so the so called expert is out of date

Some of us more on-trend lazy people wear lounge wear to the pub as well

I did vote YABU as there has been a decline in sales of suits and other formal clothing but only because there was an increase in sales of lounge wear. However, there was an overall decrease in sales of all types of clothes (not least because the shops were shut for a while 😀) and increases in online sales did not make up for the reduction in clothes purchased in store. I also think the expert's job is to talk up fashion and pretend everyone is desperate to buy the latest trend.

BiBabbles is right to say the pandemic reinforced the view that there was one definitive pandemic experience. I personally get irritated when the media talk about everybody saving and having more money to spend on their home and/or garden. I know that data on money held in savings accounts has increased but many people who travelled to work didn't have more money to spend and even more people on furlough, benefits or who were self employed had less.

I think this divergence is why you are getting a bit of an unfair response MrsLargeEmbodied. It's quite ok to be irritated by lazy journalism (which is often nothing but indirect advertising anyway) AND to still worry about climate change, world events etc!