What is this new form of slobdom?

[Theokaycokey]

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?

I don’t think you’d be able to smell anyone breath and I don’t think anyone’s fanny will smell just because they’re in PJs.

But it is so lazy and it doesn’t take much to shove some clothes on.

Most eating places have a dress code and I’m surprised this doesn’t.

The curlers are often accompanied by pyjamas and Ugg boots. 😃

MN is so touchy about PJs 🤣

I did go to breakfast in a posh hotel in my slippers once, but it was the morning after a wedding, and I'd arrived in my posh dress, and heels, planning to wear jeans and smart top the next day, but unfortunately had completely forgot to pack other shoes. As the wedding outfit complete with shoes, would have been way over the top for breakfast, and the heels totally unsuitable with jeans, I had no choice but to wear my slippers, which I had thought to pack, but even then, I was extremely uncomfortable, thinking that everyone was looking at me, and wondering why I'd gone to breakfast in slippers! I simply couldn't bear to be seen in nightwear next morning, especially in a hotel, and even if we stay with friends, I always make a point of getting dressed before making an appearance, it's called having standards!

On Friday when it was pissing down and I was soaked I came in and changed into my pjs. Then remembered I had no milk. I put my big coat on, ugg boots and sprinted to the shop. First time I’d ever done that in my life. Of course there was a big group of kids from school in there. 🤗

I used to work in a delightful village in the heart of Surrey. I was reading a similar thread a dress years back and thought "that would never happen here". Lo and behold, that very same day, two women drove up to the village shop both in pj's, slippers and big fluffy dressing gowns. They probably heard my jaw clanging open.

Hahaha! That is brilliant!

@Revenants 🤣🤣🤣 ahhhh lmao.....I call that particular waft "Nana's Gusset" 🤣🤣 brilliant.....

I remember a thread where the OP was invited to dinner at a friend’s house and the hosts wore PJs the whole evening. The thread got so heated!

I have seen it. Mostly Up North and yes I judge too.
My least favourite is topless men though. All that sweaty skin and hairy paunches. Put it away.
On that theme what the hell was that trend for wearing basically bra and knickers this summer? Those Primark matching two pieces of cycle shorts and bra top made out of thin thin stuff. Young girls barely covered and vulvas on show. (I feel old 😁)

Only because they are nightwear and social norms dictate they are warn at specific times/in specific circumstances.

I stay in hotels a lot and saw it for the first time this year in Portugal, a group of ladies coming down each morning to breakfast in skimpy pyjamas. One of them at least had the semi-decency to put a silk robe over hers.

I'm not especially easy to ick, but they gave me the ick.

Not unlike the unmistakable humm of Morbier cheese?......

It's a business style hotel, but had a fairly reasonable rate available for Sunday/Monday night (room with two queen beds for £150 a night, so could sleep a family of 4). I'm guessing that it's the demographic and that it's the price to pay for a reasonably priced last minute getaway. For what it's worth, I couldn't detect a waft of fanny, although as I have said, the atrium was very airy. However, one could most definitely see the jiggly bits jiggling underneath unsubstantial lightweight polyester night apparel. It curbed my appetite somewhat!

I have witnessed similar attire in supermarkets/Boots the chemist first thing in the morning or late at night in specific parts of my hometown, but that is most definitely a very specific demographic.

One lady was also wearing a slightly see through miniscule skin tight white strapless dress (that, if you had the figure for it and were under 25, you might wear out clubbing on holiday). She had paired it with a big pair of pink fluffy slippers and left the hotel like that. Do these people not also feel the cold or worry about the insubstantial barrier between their feet and the dog poo on the pavements?

The first time I remember noticing it was at a Sunday morning breakfast at the Malmaison near the Millennium bridge in Newcastle — it would have been about 2014 or 2015.

I saw the same in my town two weeks ago. A woman in dressing gown, pj bottoms and trainers. Had to double take! 10am!

Eww this is grim.
I am due to stay in a Premier Inn in the North this weekend, and have booked a breakfast in the brewers fayre, next door.
Am bracing myself for Fanny wafts and cheesy helmets.

It was like that when I went on holiday overseas recently too, wtf!!!

You're not in Brighton are you by any chance OP?

Came across this in the Village Hotel in Hull. It’s just so common. Yes, I am sitting there eating my toast and judging you, if you do it.

You win. Well done you.

NB If the rest of you ever wondered "Don't they know they are the only one stinking?" here's your answer

Ugh that is awful - how grubby

I think since Covid and the explosion of lounge wear, people often wear pjs out and about.

I have seen people in pjs (obviously patterned snoopy pjs) at the local swimming pool (taking their kids to lessons) and also in the mall.

It's odd but I presume they are wearing them like clothes and not like they just rolled out of bed and got in the car - though I may be wrong about that in which case yuk!

I wouldn't personally but can't see why it bothers you so much.

You do you and let others do what they want. Unless they're uncovered pj's are no different to most clothes.