To ask if spending ALL of Christmas Day in your pyjamas appeals to you or

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gives you the ick?

It seems very popular on Mumsnet. Do you stay in the ones you slept in or shower and put on fresh ones?

Personally I could never

I don't possess a pair of PJs

I'm 65 and we used the word when I was a teen, so it's been around for a while.

Why is wearing luxurious new pj’s not making an effort - it’s a fun day. What makes you think we will slouch around all day?
Wear will you be going on Christmas Day in your’best’ clothes?

Pyjamas on Christmas Eve. Apart from showers, and if I can possibly get away with it, a succession of pyjamas till January 3rd.

Bloody hell unclench!
Your home sounds like a dictatorship.

Christmas day is meant to be a joyful celebration filled with love and happiness.

Yours sounds fake and forced.

If there’s one day where you (and more importantly your kids) shouldn’t worry about appearances, then it’s Christmas Day or one day over the Xmas period.

People who choose to wear PJs or normal clothes or Xmas jumpers, aren’t doing anything differently to what you do on Christmas Day and so I don’t know why you assume they’re slouching around and you aren’t.

You aren’t better than anyone else just because you wear new clothes on the day and make your kids and DH do the same.

It's one thing your own immediate family wearing pyjamas but you really want to sit with your in-laws and extended family in their pyjamas? I can't think of anything worse!

I really don’t mind. I adore my in-laws and want everyone to feel comfortable.

We will have both sides of the family - in laws, niece and nephews and DD’s boyfriend as well as my parents. Why would it be worse with the extended family? We always spend Christmas together and everyone wears pj’s.

It’s funny I don’t know anyone in real life that spends Christmas Day in their pyjamas only on Mumsnet.

@Wonderi

It's hardly fake and forced to be well-groomed and festively attired. We've always done this on Christmas Day.

I am 61 and have family photos from when I was a toddler in a red velvet dress, shiny black shoes, with my mother in a cream silk blouse & pearls, skirt and sheer hose. Dad in a suit. I can't remember a Christmas we didn't dress well. Easter as well.

It's not a class thing. My dad was a factory worker & my mum a secretary.

But are they really more comfortable wearing their pyjamas in someone else's house when they're not staying there overnight?

We are all staying at my DSil’s house - it’s a flight to get home for everyone.

Where will you be spending Christmas Day?

I don't understand anyone having strong opinions about what other people wear, in or out of the home, on any day of the year. I never understood the pearl clutching about pyjamas at school drop off either - if people are up and out and showing up for their kids, making sure they're safely away to school, that's the sum total of my business, and even then it's a stretch.

I wear a nice but comfortable dress on Christmas day. The emphasis leans to comfort. Why should anyone else care though?

Of course it is.

If one person is forcing everyone to wear new outfits then it’s exactly that.

What if someone wants to wear a Christmas jumper or just more comfortable clothes?
They wouldn’t be allowed to, so then it is forced.

The person in the new dress, heels and new perfume isn’t happier than a person in normal clothes or PJs.

It is all about appearances, which is fake.

It’s absolutely fine if you and your family want to dress a certain way for Christmas but that also means it’s fine for other families to dress a different way and it doesn’t mean they are less than or slobs because they’re not wearing pearls or a new dress and are wearing PJs, normal clothes or Xmas jumpers instead.

If you think that someone not dressing up for Christmas is slobbish, then the only reason you’re dressing up is to fake appearances.

Nope, out walking dog early at Christmas....then dressed properly. At about 9 when hopefully the last of the hoard leaves and it's me and DH it's likely the comfy trousers will come out. Or slightly earlier if no on taking the hint.

Even if just me and dh I wouldn't wear pjs all day. Unless I was ill.

Clothing and adornment has varied by occasion, and used symbolically to denote the importance of certain events, nearly as long as humanity has existed.

Suiting one's attire to the occasion, or even having dress codes, is not "fake," whatever that means.

Many of us enjoy elevating our attire to reflect the specialness of an occasion, be that a wedding, an important professional event, a night out or a festive Christmas meal.

I couldn't care less what anyone else does but it's not for me. It would just feel weird. We host my parents and siblings and their partners and children. The thought of us all sitting around the table having Christmas dinner in our pyjamas is just odd!! But we've never been the sort of people who wear pyjamas in the day. It wouldn't feel relaxing to me. But if other people enjoy it, then fine.

No any day spent all day in PJs doesn't appeal to me let alone all day on Christmas Day. I like to get dressed for Christmas Dinner.

Totally agree on the heating.

To be warm enough wearing only thin clothes like PJs would require a much warmer house than mine.

You’d have to be quite privileged!

That sounds like heaven!

I love a good nightie. I've got some Victorian ones - I lounge around like one of Poe's consumptive maidens and feel fabulous!

I'm always dressed on Christmas day for the first part of the day at least. But I don't make any extra effort just because of the fact it's Christmas. I'm not going to be wearing a dress and heels when I'm at home with my husband and kids. I would get more dressed up if I was going out on Christmas day. Otherwise I don't see the point. But everyone just does things differently and there's no right or wrong way. People have their own traditions and to do anything else would feel weird.

My dilemma is which pj’s to buy for this Christmas? The theme is wildlife. I’m in the UK for a few days so can shop here but otherwise will need to go shopping when I get home next week.