What is this new form of slobdom?

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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?

you brush your teeth after breakfast, not before - if you brush before, your orange juice will taste rank

EDIT: well shit! I'm wrong ???

Brushing before breakfast will help protect your teeth against the sugary and acidic cereals. Cleaning your teeth before eating removes as much bacteria as possible, before “feeding” them even more with food you consume at breakfast time.

I’m not offended. I’ve already said that this scenario doesn’t affect me personally, so what have I got to be offended about?

Interesting & exactly what my initial post adhered to. I've stayed in similar hotels on many an occasion & yes there have been people at breakfast in their night atire. This is exactly what I meant. It's as if they are saying I'm so at home here compared to you fully dressed people & by wearing my dressing gown & slippers I'm also telling you I'm more welcome than you. Whatever way you look at it the whole concept of fit healthy people wearing pyjamas in a public space is just wrong.

I saw my first of this just in the summer a mid 20s couple in Liverpool Hilton, we weren’t sure what was going on ??!!

That is ridiculous - get room service if you want to hang in your pyjamas. Isn't that what you do?

Maybe if you always wear a suit, but one cotton T-shirt and trackies is very much like another- you won’t know which ones are worn to sleep in and which aren’t. unless they have some particular slogan or something on them.

It really is super interesting. And although I’m someone with no spoons left today and hence still in my pyjamas & back in bed after distributing my silverware ( half term aghh) I definitely think it should all be discussed — agree that the fact there is a minority of people who have little choice does not by any means outweigh a wider discussion about societal standards for the majority who are not chronically ill/disabled etc.

It’s all fascinating and I enjoyed OP’s report today. I quite fancy some fluffy Halloween Hello Kitty pyjamas.

In your view! Luckily your authority over me is zero and I can carry on wearing pjs wherever I like!

I think the waldorf probably does like me more than you- ner ner ner ner ner!

I am kind of a slob myself in that I sometimes go to the corner shop a few yards down road dressed in nightmare if it's late and a few minutes before closing and I've forgotten something I need for a v early breakfast (I tend to be awful about not remembering to buy milk).

I would feel selfconscious and smelly about doing it in a hotel but I am a sweaty betty, and I always shower and wear fresh clothes on holiday before dinner. I'm a bit o obsessive about it, and I think that @FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper makes a good point about those who may have a good reason for being undressed at a holiday breakfast . Sick and disabled people have a right to holidays too!

Nightwear not nightmare!! Though I probably look like a nightmare! No make up and unstyled hair.

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

This. You are probably staying in a chavvy hotel OP. Spend a bit more next time!

Even the tramps on the streets used to wear suits.

Stayed in many similar although not the waldorf. By the sound of things if what your saying is correct then its too slobby for me anyway 😂

@Springforward1 nah - they let anyone in! 😉

Reckon we should ask the Waldorf what is acceptable breakfast attire at this rate

Apparently PJs, dressing gown &
Baffies (look it up) 😂

I'll think about it, as long as they accept me fully dressed 😂

I did actually look up the dress code for the Waldorf and there is none, except "common courtesy". This seems to be interpreted variously by guests on TripAdvisor as "no scanty clothes or pool clothes".

Off to find my "baffies" now

As long as your cardi goes with your starry PJs, you're golden. Leisurewear, innit.

Slovens unite! ✊

I do admit its grim

I live on a large Council Estate and there are those whom go to the shops in said attire.. and some used to take their kids to school in them
I done it ONCE and there was a reason
I had had surgery and only been home a few days and, as I smoked then, I popped to the local shop 5 minutes away . However I did stick boots on and did have a coat on as well.

And alas, they were not Ugg boots though I would love a pair . Too expensive.

Totally agree, some people have no pride in themselves whatsoever.

For all the snobs talking about the ‘underclass’ of people who do things like this or talking about council estates, based on the comments it seems like a lot more people wear pyjamas or dressing gowns in more upmarket, spa type hotels than anywhere else.
Your garden variety ‘lower class’ can’t afford places like this, so what does that tell you?

Thank you!! This is exactly the point I have been trying to make.

People with true class wouldn't turn a hair at this sort of thing. The MN pearl clutchers are showing themselves up as lacking in class, their superior attitude notwithstanding. It's a pity they are too dense to realise.

To the pp wondering about why people wear walking shoes and the like to the theatre - it’s probably because they have taken public transport and walked to get there. Posh footwear isn’t suited to rain/wet/grim streets and actually walking. Ditto for the clothing. If I went to the theatre, I would be in that type of gear.