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What is this new form of slobdom?

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Theokaycokey · 23/10/2023 21:17

Staying at a seaside resort in the UK. Large Hotel has a massive open atrium that is overlooked by hotel rooms and anyone walking along the promenade. The hotel restaurant is located smack bang in the middle of the atrium and is open to the reception area. I come down to breakfast this morning and a significant number of guests are sat in their pyjamas having their breakfast! Different families, all scattered around the restaurant or queuing at the breakfast buffet in their nightwear and fluffy slippers. This is the first time that I have come across this. Is it a relatively recent phenomenon?

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WinterDeWinter · 23/10/2023 21:18

Eww that would put me off my meusli. Morning breath and fanny wafts.

DustyLee123 · 23/10/2023 21:19

I saw a guy in PJ bottoms, slippers and a coat in town today.

Fionaville · 23/10/2023 21:20

I don't never seen that! I hope it's not a new trend, although it might have been handy for the kids when they were younger.

AgnesX · 23/10/2023 21:22

🙄 People seem to live in their pj's these days.

We stayed in quite a posh hotel last December. They had a sign at the restaurant door saying that people had to dress for breakfast and that PJ's weren't allowed.

ActDottie · 23/10/2023 21:23

Yanbu it would put me off too

XenoBitch · 23/10/2023 21:24

WinterDeWinter · 23/10/2023 21:18

Eww that would put me off my meusli. Morning breath and fanny wafts.

I used to go to the breakfast buffet in the clothes I wore the day before. Still had morning breath and "fanny wafts".
The people properly clothed are not necessarily clean.

Antst · 23/10/2023 21:24

Certain people have done it for years.

I understand that someone else's attire doesn't affect me and isn't any of my business. That said, it's always a type and it's a type I wouldn't want to know. It's gross to show up in public in sweaty pyjamas with bits hanging free, having clearly not washed. The women always have heavy makeup on with crusty eyes.

TheChosenTwo · 23/10/2023 21:25

Bloody hell they’d get a shock if I went to breakfast in my Nightwear, I sleep naked!
my bare minimum for a hotel breakfast would be some leggings and a sweatshirt that covered my bum, clean and definitely not slept in.
Have taken the kids in to roadside places/services etc in their pyjamas when we’ve started long journeys at 5am (car sick so always best when they fell back to sleep after we’d lifted them into car and then half an hour or so before arriving at the destination they’d be awake and ready for breakfast), I think that’s very different from
a hotel breakfast and I would certainly notice someone turning up at the breakfast buffet in their pyjamas!

Antst · 23/10/2023 21:26

XenoBitch · 23/10/2023 21:24

I used to go to the breakfast buffet in the clothes I wore the day before. Still had morning breath and "fanny wafts".
The people properly clothed are not necessarily clean.

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Maybe so, but the people in pyjamas definitely aren't. If you put clothes on, there's a higher chance you'll have washed and put underwear on.

Dunnoburt · 23/10/2023 21:26

What is a "fanny waft"? that's made me laugh 🤣

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 23/10/2023 21:28

About 8 years ago I arrived at a Tesco on the outskirts of a Bristol and was greeted with several groups of shoppers in their nightwear, it was late at night but was still odd. 6 years ago people at a table in the local carvery were also in nightwear but it was the middle of the day. Surprised it’s allowed in a hotel though.

Fulshaw · 23/10/2023 21:29

Some people have no shame.

XenoBitch · 23/10/2023 21:29

Antst · 23/10/2023 21:26

Maybe so, but the people in pyjamas definitely aren't. If you put clothes on, there's a higher chance you'll have washed and put underwear on.

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No, I really didn't. I just chucked yesterday's clothing on and had a shower and change after breakfast. I can guarantee a lot of the people properly dressed have not washed either. And I can guarantee that people who claim to know the difference are talking out their arse.

RudsyFarmer · 23/10/2023 21:30

It’s a sign of poor social etiquette, probably a class signifier.

Ponoka7 · 23/10/2023 21:31

Antst · 23/10/2023 21:26

Maybe so, but the people in pyjamas definitely aren't. If you put clothes on, there's a higher chance you'll have washed and put underwear on.

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I wouldn't do this, but like a pp I sleep naked. I get up, have a shower and put clean PJ's on, if I'm not going out, I put the bins out, tidy the garden etc in them. Here in Liverpool girls buy designer PJ's to walk around in, they do so with a full face of makeup. There's a lot of assumptions about not being clean. MNers pride themselves on not getting a daily shower.

Fuckitydoodah · 23/10/2023 21:33

'Fanny wafts' 🤣

itsmyp4rty · 23/10/2023 21:34

Oh I love the idea of that - you're on holiday, why get dressed if you don't have to.
Fanny wafts is as bizarre as it is grim - I've never smelt anyone's fanny or cock from being stood next to them. Sounds like a misogynistic slur to me.

JollyJolene · 23/10/2023 21:35

If people are walking around town with curlers in and dropping kids off at school in their dressing gowns, people having breakfast in a hotel in their PJs really isn’t too surprising.

Figgygal · 23/10/2023 21:36

There's a growing shameless underclass who think shit like that is OK when it's not its just grim as

sqirrelfriends · 23/10/2023 21:36

It’s a thing, I didn’t know it was a thing until I saw it myself.

I stayed in a premier inn for a Christmas party years back which had a brewers fayre on site. We went down to breakfast at about 10 and a fair portion of the clientele were in their pjs. Not ideal when you’re already a bit queasy.

The Tesco near my uni accommodation actually banned nightwear.

LegendsBeyond · 23/10/2023 21:36

It’s not just about being clean though. It’s about having respect for yourself & others. It says a lot about the people doing it.

Mummysgogetter · 23/10/2023 21:37

I have got to admit, even if I had showered etc. if I was in PJs in the middle of the day, I would feel ‘unclean’ somehow. I certainly wouldn’t go out anywhere- I hate even answering the door in my night attire. I think it’s just the way I have been brought up.

I also hate it on holiday abroad at an all inclusive and in the morning people have bikini tops on with burnt scabby skin standing in front of me whilst I’m getting food (vom)

Ponoka7 · 23/10/2023 21:38

JollyJolene · 23/10/2023 21:35

If people are walking around town with curlers in and dropping kids off at school in their dressing gowns, people having breakfast in a hotel in their PJs really isn’t too surprising.

In all fairness women have always worn curlers, they just covered them with a scarf.

PuttingDownRoots · 23/10/2023 21:41

Years ago in university halls there was a group who were known to get up, shower, do hair and make up, then put pyjamas on to go for lunch so it looked like they had just got up.

Fulshaw · 23/10/2023 21:42

Oh I love the idea of that - you're on holiday, why get dressed if you don't have to

Yes but you do have to. Because you’re going out into a public space.