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?

I don’t own pyjamas because I don’t sleep in clothes, I put on a pair of joggers and a tshirt to do stockings and have breakfast and then shower and change into leggings and a sweatshirt so definitely comfortable clothes. We aren’t a house who dress up for Christmas Day/visitors, always have a house full and no one has been so repelled at my outfit that they’ve declined an invite the following year 😂

Some loungewear you can get away with wearing outside.

Got navy and light grey oversize hoodies which go about halfway down my thighs (I'm 5ft 8). They would silly outside on someone 5ft 3

I spend as much time as humanly possible in my pajamas. Except when actually sleeping 😆

Christmas day I'll happily spend in pjs if we aren't visiting anyone or hosting. I'm sad I'll have to put on "proper" clothes (and a bra) this Christmas.

It's not the all day pjs that get me it's the fact that you presumably are t going to leave your house all day....that's the bit I would find hard to deal with.

I'm walking dogs, exercising, going to the shops or just going for a walk several times throughout the day. I'd only have a pj day if I was ill (and I'd still have to walk the dogs at some point!).

Showering and wearing “outside” clothes is completely optional in my world. I’m personally #teamjammies but I don’t have to entertain anyone and am a big believer in live and let live. I don’t judge people for wearing sparkles so they shouldn’t judge my jammies! 😘

I don't own any - and never sit around in nightwear after a bath either -H doesn't either

Hahaha genuinely took the words right out of my mouth!

Kids requested it last year. Went out for a big walk back home and into matching pjs cringe but they loved it.

I don’t own pyjamas, but do have great leisurewear. Up until last Christmas I’d either have been visiting family or had them over for Christmas dinner. Part of the ritual was always changing into smart clothes for Christmas Dinner.

Last year with both my parents passed away (in their 90s, so sad but ok) we had our Christmas Dinner in the evening. Did I dress up - of course I did. Did we do pjs the rest of the day. Nope.

Same, I get dressed as soon as I’m up

it’s a no from me OP. I like to dress up a little on Christmas Day

I always get dressed! Out of interest, i don’t wear underwear under my pyjamas presumably all-day pyjama wearers have knickers on underneath?

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But if I don't, they get washed after a single wear. I don't wear knickers to bed so it depends how "dressed" I've got when putting my PJ's on in the morning.

I don't think it's gross for you to do it, just that I don't want to do it. I feel uncomfortable being anything other than dressed during daytime hours. Unless I'm really quite ill. I think there three reasons for me personally...
A. The fact I've slept in the pjs, or look like I may have slept in them (thinking of the people who have said they'd change into fresh ones) which then has associations with being...I don't want to say dirty, but less than fresh I suppose?
B. The association with laziness. If the doorbell rang and I was in pyjamas, any time between idk...about 8am and 9.30pm I wouldn't want to open it. Or if I did, I'd be explaining to the person behind the door why I wasn't dressed (IE I'm ill). I'm sure they probably don't care, but I care. Annoyingly. More on that later.
C. Being undressed also has associations with vulnerability/letting people see you in a relaxed manner or with your guard down. Which is not something I do often.

I can tell you when it started. When I was a young teenager/prenager my mum would buy me pyjamas with cartoon characters or animals and stuff on them which I thought were desperately childish. I'd ask her not to and she'd forget (unsure if this is true but it's what I was told). Then there were multiple occasions (birthdays, Christmas morning, other random times) where you'd have a camera shoved in your face before breakfast. Then the photos would resurface down the line and shown to people and there would be comments about 'and here's >name< in her pjs!' in a tone which suggested you were a slovenly wench and regardless of whether that image was from 7am or 11pm I would feel as embarrassed as if they were handing around photos of me in my underwear. So I stopped leaving my room unless I was dressed, even on Christmas day. There was a whole psychological warfare in my family around trying to make people feel bad about themselves. I can imagine to alot of people this wouldn't seem like much. But yet here I am approaching 40 and I still rarely go downstairs in my adult home in my pyjamas. The fact that I do it ever is real testament to how much trust and love I feel to/from DH. Don't feel like he's going to tease me about my attire. Safety = comfort = allowing yourself to feel vulnerable. Which isn't something I felt at home growing up and I'm still growing out of the mental and behavioural consequences.

Phew, that got deeper than I anticipated when I started the comment 😂

Wearing pj's all day is only for when I'm sick. Even at that, I'd need to be pretty unwell.

Ick. I rarely even wear pyjamas all day if I'm ill. I love Christmas. I don't associate spending the day in pyjamas with celebration and social occasions. I associate it with being ill or depressed and not being able to face company or interact with the outside world. I find this desperate need to be super comfy and cosy a bit infantile tbh.

Can’t imagine sitting round the dining table in jammies 🤣

big ick!

I don't sleep in pyjamas, but either way, I'll have to wear a bra so I might as well just be dressed.

No, I wouldn't enjoy that. I need t9 get dressed.

Doesn’t appeal at all. I’ve only done it when I’ve been very ill with flu.

Couldn’t care less if other people want to, but it’s not for me.

@okayhescereal but if a person's pyjamas were literally just a plain navy pair of bottoms and a plain red t-shirt/sweatshirt - how would anyone know if they are wearing pyjamas or "loungewear" or just a pair of navy casual trousers and a red top?
That's what I meant.

No, I like a bit of glam on Christmas day, however, in the evening when I'm full and just want to relax I will put on something comfortable to laze in while I'm watching TV and eating chocolate and drinking wine.

Thank you for all your replies.

I'm a nightie woman myself but can't imagine staying in it (or changing into a new one) after my morning shower.

And I'd find DH slightly ridiculous if he spent the day in pyjamas. He'd actually give me the ick.

I'll wear these with a Christmas jumper. Warm and comfy.

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I don't do pyjamas on Christmas day but I don't dress up either its usually a Christmas jumper and leggings

Neither.

It doesn't appeal but also doesn't give me the ick. It's just not for me but I wouldn't bat an eyelid at anyone else who did it.