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?

Can't get past fanny wafts , sorry 🤭🤣🤣🤭

Given the amount of people who WFH in their PJs it surely can't be long.

Our office has very much relaxed our dress code since covid but it now rests somewhere around 'no active wear / lounge wear'. I hope we don't have to explicitly add the unspoken 'no pyjamas' to that.

Wondering this too but didn’t want to ask 😂

Just back from a uk caravan holiday - had to take the dog out first and last thing for a wee, did it my pjs and felt very odd. No way to a hotel breakfast.

Is it a joke about fluffy slippers and pulled up white socks being the latest thing? 🤔

Oh god is this really a thing? I despair!

This thread brings back memories of my uni days: I would go to the library to study and be confronted by greasy people in none-too -clean pyjamas. I personally thought that the library should have banned it.

Hadn't heard of that before and Im someone with a chronic illness (Graves disease), fair enough could of been that.

When I went to the theatre for the first time after covid I was slightly "dressed up" and I looked completely out of place. Everyone else looked like they were about to climb Snowden, it was all hiking jackets and walking boots. It's good to know about these developments in a way.

Was in a department store last year wandering through the night wear. Some looked like evening wear, some beach wear. So I'm not sure I'd notice to be honest. I do like a shower, teeth brushed and fully dressed in a hotel personally.

Is this yet another ‘are you middle class enough’ MN thread? Because we couldn’t ALL be lucky enough to inherit the sterling silver salad spinner from Great Aunt Edna.

If I was in a hotel and people in pyjamas and slippers sat at the table next to me for breakfast, it would suggest a level of intimacy when I don't know them at all. But others may not be bothered in the slightest.

No-one can control or even know for certain where their hands go while asleep.

that’s why it’s very important to wash your hands, at the very least, before breakfast.

its a juice station not a bumjuice bar.

This goes with my objection to sitting in a spa restaurant eating in your damp cossie and bathrobe. Yuk

"Bumjuice bar" 🤣🤣🤣

Some people definitely do smell fanny wafts, I know a few people with a very keen sense of smell.

“I don’t never seen that”

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YANBU. It’s gross.

They could have put leggings and a teeshirt on and MN would still be outraged because leggings aren't allowed outside the gym 🤣

Clothing does indeed affect others beyond the wearer.

For all of humankind, attire/apparel has been used symbolically, as messaging and to create an ambience.

Those who think "it's nobody's business what I wear" are self-centered fools. Of course there is appropriate attire that is situation-dependent. And in our culture, nightwear is not suitable for appearing in public.

I wonder how they'd feel if their airline pilot turned up in PJs, or the officiant at their wedding wore Daisy Dukes, or if their restaurant servers were in Speedos. Anything goes as long as it's comfortable, right?

A couple of years ago I stayed in a hotel popular with cyclists. Lots of them came down to breakfast encased in tight lycra. I'll take PJs over shrink-wrapped meat and veg first thing in the morning any day.

How sad.

Dressing up for an evening at the theater is a great pleasure. What is it lately that people can't stand the idea of wearing tailored clothing, or anything without stretch fabric and an elastic waist?

I wish, but it is a thing. I see well dressed people out and about and then I see their foot wear and think "ooookay". Slippers and socks are the latest thing. Coming soon to a town near you.

The opposite of: I do ever see this.
Hope that helps. 🤣

One of the ‘dress up’ days at a school I was at, was a pyjama day. Despite wearing proper underwear and pjs covering neck to toe, plus full length coat to get to school, it just felt wrong all day. I was so uncomfortable with the whole day.