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?

well then -you arent allowed out of the house in such disgraceful footwear!

the irony of some of these! beautiful! 😂

Well you aren't supposed to walk in your trickers/manolos etc except for getting out of a cab and into restaurant/theatre or similar. These are foot decorations, not shoes

I think it's terrible that some people don't even bother to get dressed anymore.
My last job was in a secondary school and I regularly witnessed parents in pyjamas dropping off their kids at the school gates. 🙄

I don't care what people wear! I've gone to sainsburys in what is essentially "loungewear" which I have indeed worn to bed. I've also gone down to breakfast in a hotel fully dressed without underwear, last night's make up on and unbrushed teeth after a big night out. I would have showered the night before. Your not dirty and it's really no one else's business so long as you don't have your boobs and/or bum hanging out.

I stayed at a hotel over the Summer and saw noone in pyjamas at breakfast 🤷

This does make me think of when I was in a psychiatric hospital. Obviously there are lots of blurred boundaries as you live there. But there were rules around having to get dressed if you attended a group. Lots of us would wear loungewear which was fine. So if someone tried their luck wearing pyjamas to a group and were told they couldn't wear PJ's, they would look offended and say 'this is lounge wear!' 😂

I find many of the replies here very weird. But then I am really a member of Grans' net. I see the majority of votes about wearing nightclothes to breakfast in a public place support the complainant. If very rich people want to breakfast in their night wear, I am pretty sure they would order room service. Thus some arguments here seem to be inverted snobbery. I rarely stay in hotels, but in a chain hotel recently, saw absolutely nobody in obvious nightwear

I must have missed the comment about the theatre, but you see very few people dressed up to go now. I’m all for that, you’re sitting down in a dark room for a few hours, people should dress comfortably. Especially as you said, if they have to walk any distance to get there.

I stayed in an hotel about 40 years ago & a man came down to breakfast in his PJs & dressing gown and slippers. He sat looking around in horror as he seemed to realise he was the only one dressed in this way. Afterwards the hotel staff whispered to me that “he’s French you know, that’s what they do there” I have no idea if that’s true. I have never seen it since in the uk or abroad, though I’ve never stayed in a French hotel.

Stayed in quite a few 4-star hotel (1 just last weekend) and have never seen anyone come to breakfast in their PJs. Most of these hotels have been up t’north. Women save their PJs for nipping to The Asda or Aldi up here. Must be a southern thing

This thread is hilarious! I couldn’t give a shit what other people wear to breakfast. It has no impact on me whatsoever.
i often work away and throw on some leggings for breakfast then go back and have a shower afterwards. It’s not uncommon to see guests in pjs but it’s never crossed my mind to care

I got a bit obsessed with loungewear during lockdown and have a couple of sets of matching velour joggers and hoody if I’m not going out. Just as easy as pyjamas but not obvious nightwear, I don’t sleep in them, I just feel more dressed in them than in pyjamas and would be quite happy to slip a waterproof jacket to go to the shops. I wear them to the gym over my gym kit too.

I have stayed in French hotels. Never seen anyone at breakfast in pyjamas.

Shame taste, sense of occasion, or even common sense.

Although actually I don't care what you wear or when, no one really wants to see you in your pj's.

I was in a hotel in June when some people were turning up in night wear/ bathrobes for breakfast on the Saturday morning. Their excuse was that they had been celebrating a wedding the night before.

Now that would depend, I stay in a hotel that supplies robes and slippers and invites you to breakfast in them. It’s not exactly cheap to stay there.

No we went to a very big Resort hotel in South Wales, ( Celtic Manor) and was shocked when we went down to breakfast to be confronted by loads of families with kids in onesies and PJ,s and after queuing for breakfast with kids running back and fore to the buffet , I said never again.

People with true class wouldn't turn a hair at this sort of thing

This is just incorrect. You obviously don’t stay in “nice” hotels. I regularly stay at very nice 4 and 5 star hotels and have never witnessed anyone attending breakfast in their pyjamas. The only time I have seen it is when I was forced to stay at a premier inn when attending a wedding as the wedding venue itself was booked up and this was the only other option. It would be completely weird and unacceptable for someone to go down to breakfast in their pjs at say, the Shelbourne in Dublin (where I am staying this weekend coincidentally). It just isn’t done and would be looked down on, although the hotel staff and other guests would have more class than to react or say anything they would be silently judging believe me.

It’s completely slobbish, lazy and lacking in social awareness or being so ignorant as to just not care about personal standards for people to do this.
If I’m paying a lot of money to stay in a lovely hotel I do not what to sit at breakfast with people unwashed and slovenly in their bedroom attire. Luckily as I said, the hotels I frequent tend to have a better class of guests. I am working class btw - this isn’t social class I’m talking about but a persons individual standards.

Before children, a group of local friends and I used to spend each Friday night at each other’s houses, having a drink and a chat. We always got home from work, changed into fresh pjs and wore those to chill out together. Didn’t think anything of it then.

Note sure I’d do it at a hotel breakfast though. I don’t know why it bothers me; leggings/joggers are commonly worn out and about and are basically pjs by another name.

Is this something that’s going to be so completely normal in 20 years time that everyone wonders why it was an issue?

you sound fun

Beds and bedrooms are private.
So it doesn’t feel right to see people in public in the clothing that is for the privacy of bedroom and sleep.

🤮 I couldn’t !!

You were ‘forced’ to stay in a Premier Inn!! Dear god, how did you ever survive?

How far does your pinkie stick out when you’re drinking from your bone china teacups?

You may be working class but you’re definitely one of those who like to pretend otherwise.

Not acting like a stuck up snob on MN, ‘’It just isn’t done’’.

you should never set foot out of the door if you haven’t brushed your teeth.
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I'm in the US. Its been common here, in family type holiday/vacation areas, since 2005. I'm just glad people buy good sleepwear.

My US visiting students find the home student body very formally dressed here! They say it’s not unusual for students at their home institutions to attend lectures in pyjamas.