To have driven to MILs in my dressing gown?

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I didn't even leave the car. I drove 10 minutes up the road to MILs house to deliver some Piriton to DD, she came out to meet me and grab it, and I drove 10 minutes home. I didn't want to change into a hoodie just for a quick drive (I had other clothes on, not JUST my dressing gown) DH said a dressing gown is "Not appropriate clothing for driving in" and that it was stupid because "It's all baggy" it's no baggier than a maxi dress or my favourite jump suit that has really flappy/baggy legs that I drive in a lot

Was I unreasonable or he is just weird?

You mean you don't have a top hat for every occasion? Shame on you! 😄

You didn’t even get out the car and there’s no safety issue so I don’t see the problem! Your MIL and DD presumably didn’t care (because they didn’t know) so I don’t know why your DH cares about something no one could see. It would’ve been a waste of time to change for 10 mins then change back. I presume DH always looks immaculate and dapper on his frequent short trips to help DD out?

but presumably OP's clothes below the dressing gown were also not suitable to be worn alone (or at least on their own outside at night) - otherwise she wouldn't have bothered putting the dressing gown on in the first place. So either she's in a dressing gown at the side of the road (embarrassing) or in a see through vest top and pj bottoms or similar (embarrassing and cold!)

Which is why I myself wouldn't do it, although I wouldn't go as far as saying you doing it makes you unreasonable, it's your life.

Have to admit I roll my eyes when people say 'couldn't be arsed to put a hoodie on.' It takes about 3 seconds. Less time that tying your hair back in a ponytail. You'd have spent longer putting your trainers on and looking for your car keys.

If it was a choice between getting dressed in a full shirt/tie/trousers/smart shoes or blouse/skirt/tights/heels OR PJs I might understand why people go out in them. But luckily we have loungewear for that exact reason. Pulling on joggers and a hoodie takes a few seconds and are equally as comfortable as PJs

I go to the bins occasionally in a dressing gown in a dash if they're about to be collected.

I would never get in the car in sleep wear. I would throw on leggings or tracksuit bottoms.

A dressing gown in the car - never

It's not about anything to do with flapping about in my opinion. Imagine if one of the 25% of unfit drivers crashed into your car, 100% their fault, and you had to get out of the car to exchange details, for example.

I drop dd every day at the station in my dressing gown.. no one sees so who cares?

Okay? If someone crashed into me I wouldn't give a shit about my clothes

I wouldn’t do it, definitely no self esteem issues! Quite the reverse…

A local paper scaremongering article?
I can’t see how a long dress could get tangled in pedals, so you wouldn’t fall foul of the rule. It’s not the dress that’s illegal, it’s having something that could tangle.

It’s having something that could impede pedals. I don’t see how a dress could.

I must be wearing my maxi dresses wrong. You would find it inconvenient, others reckon it could impede the pedals…mine stays well away from the pedals and impedes nothing.

Yes I own plenty of coats and jackets. But if I am already wearing my dressing gown over my loungewear and I fancy a McD’s drive through, then I’m going to leave it on.

Bless you, it’s okay if you don’t get it. Don’t fret. You don’t need to participate in the ‘weird’ clothing choices of others. We are all different.

I didn't write the highway code, I don't know why they think a maxi dress could impede pedals.

Silly local rags love to print these sort of "here's a mad interpretation of the law that makes a good clickbait headline" - has your friend google shown you any cases of drivers actually being fined for their dresses?

Your choice, we all have different standards.

For me it would be a definite no.

I'm all for comfort, but for the sake of a 2min change....

I think I would feel, maybe irrationally, completely undignified.

My dh has a horror of what used to be more common - adults walking around supermarkets at night in ONESIES.

I get kids going home from swimming lessons in pjs (I guess) efficient parenting time management.

But going out in a onesie or a dressing gown is just gross to me. Even if no one sees you!

It's irrational I agree, up to a point.

My mother used to hate us smoking or eating in the street - (many years ago now) she said it was u dignified - I didn't get it then but the dressing gown thing I do get.

My neighbour walks her dog in pj bottoms and my DH calls her a slightly rude word under his breath - old fashioned maybe to be snobbish about it.

I’d take a minute to put a bra and a tracksuit on.

Ah, I see, you are actually in your pyjamas , sorry ‘loungewear’, not normal clothing.
Patronising me doesn’t make you less weird.

Personally I wouldn’t, I don’t really like dressing gowns anyway and I certainly wouldn’t wear one outside of the house, but I couldn’t get myself worked up about it if someone else did as you did 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s just basic bloody standards. If you’re going out get dressed. I’d feel such a slob wearing a dressing gown in the car. You’re not elderly or ill. Wear a coat! All these people saying it takes two minutes, it doesn’t. It takes two seconds.

Would I put a dressing-gown on over clothes to drive somewhere? No. But I can’t begin to imagine to caring if anyone else does.

Pyjamas and loungewear are different. I do not wear loungewear to bed. Loungewear are soft tracksuit sets, which are perfectly normal items of clothing.

And patronising me doesn’t make you less superior.