Going out shopping in your pyjamas

[NicolaDeLaHaye]

AIBU to think it's lazy and slovenly?

@AlwaysPerfumed If I didn't bother to get dressed I'd still be in my nightie with no knickers 😂
And no.....I didn't go to my Dad's funeral in my pyjamas.
He was buried in an old favourite faded t-shirt and trackies though because that was what he liked to wear.
So .... whatever.

I never understand the over the top anger about pyjamas. Some people need to calm down.

Fine. Enjoy the society you create, enjoy men in pyjama trousers in your local park. Oh the freedom of creeps everywhere ignoring silly old dress codes designed for silly old respect and silly old decency. Oh the horrors of people assuming they could keep the lid on male sexual crassnesss to some degree, with social codes. How stupid everyone has been, for so long. Thank god for the supreme intelligence now of pyjamas in public.

I get dressed every day, and leave the house every day, unless I am desperately ill. I think that doing any more than nipping to the corner shop in your pyjamas shows a lack of self care and self worth. However, that is my opinion.

I also think that grown men dressed in grey tracksuits head to toe with the hood up look stupid and that leggings are not trousers. Again, it’s my opinion. Yes someone wearing their PJs in the street doesn’t cause me any problems but I think they must have low self worth.

@Needmorelego Did you wear something else to your dad's funeral out of respect for him?
Why didn't you wear your pyjamas-you know with you being so overweight, menopausal and sweaty. Surely your dad would have understood.

Why did you suddenly feel they were inappropriate?

I'm pleased you showed respect for your dad. Now, do you think you could extend that respect to the rest of society.

I love nothing more than getting a shower and putting on clean, fresh pjs when I’m having a can’t do much day.

I don’t go out in them though.

@BarneyRonson men don't usually wear flowery patterned loose trousers with co-ordinating t-shirts though so why would they do that just because some women choose to do so?
Very odd thinking.

I love the polite yet scathing tone of this.

Agree completely, society would appreciate not seeing the PJs.

Oh Morrisons. Perhaps you could try shopping in Waitrose.

I honestly think you are the one who’s logic is off
Wearing sweaty pyjamas that you have slept in to the shops, possibly no underwear and have clearly not showered for the day ……anyone who showers for the day Dosen’t get back into sweaty pyjamas that the slept in the night before if they are leaving the house

@AlwaysPerfumed ok seriously I have to go because I have to catch a train.
I am so very sorry my navy with a little pattern of dots loose fitting trousers that I am currently wearing offends you so much and apparently means I have no respect for society.
I'd say something else to you but the last time I did that Mumsnet suspended me for a week 😂

Yes, it’s my thinking that is odd, not your thinking that is literal minded. Definitely.

@Needmorelego

Hmmm...I think I'm getting the complete picture of you.

Hope you manage to have a compartment to yourself on the train...for your comfort and the comfort of others.

Safe journey!

Honestly, I dont care what anyone else wears.

I dont wear actual pyjamas as i dont sleep in anything.

My "round the house" clothes are joggers and a hoodie or t shirt + underwear and bra.
I have been to the shop in those, but unsure if it counts as "pyjamas".
If it does then i am part of the downfall of society but I cba changing into jeans to go get milk.

@AlwaysPerfumed I am clean and currently smell of lavender.
Ironically my Uber driver (jeans and jumper) stinks of damp and BO.
😂😂😂😂😂

I wouldn't go shopping in pjs but I do go out in the car to collect my son in them, usually with my big oodie type thing over the top. To be honest unless pjs say good night on them there is little to differentiate from comfy clothes. I have a loose pair of black tracksuit bottoms. My daughter has a pair of plain black pj bottoms. My husband frequently muddles them up when sorting the washing. The main thing for me wearing pjs is I wouldn't be wearing a bra therefore I'd feel self conscious walking round the shops. But I did pop in for one item the other day wearing a hoodie over my pj top, no bra and the aforementioned trackies.

I'd say a dressing gown looks more strange out in public.

I think the point is that they've slept in the outfit they go out in, most likely not had a wash, and who knows how many nights they've slept in the jimjams? They could have been sleeping in them for a fortnight.

As so often happens, we have people trying to portray a smug virtue e.g. Hey, I'm just such a chilled, accepting free spirit who is morally above such petty considerations.

When in actual fact it's a sad necessity e.g. my personal standards have sunk to such scruffy levels that people hold their breath when they walk past me.

Black leggings. Black hoodie. Trainers. Day clothes or pyjamas?

Then you might as well wear normal day clothes

Just to mix it up a bit…I’ve just thought, I generally wear pjs bottoms with next thin strap vests for bed (and only for bed, or as I said above, clean ones for lounging in). I also bought some jersey wide leg trousers from next last year that I decided to keep as pjs so how does that fit in with this whole debate? Outerwear as pjyamas?

I'm usually always dressed when I go to shops. However last night at 10:30pm my toddler spiked a crazy high temperature and we couldn't find the calpol or nurofen. So you bet I ran out to the car and legged it to the local supermarket that closed at 11pm to get some in my pyjamas and coat. First time I've done it, and I would do it again.

It certainly does happen! One day I went to one of those shopping parks! B&Q, Homebase, Matalan and there were 3 ladies, who’d come out together in PJs, it was about lunchtime. They were queuing at the burger van. They were
looking at everyone challengingly, everyone was trying their hardest not to look at them.

I personally do not come downstairs until I’m fully dressed. I could not function in my night clothes. I do not actually own a pair of PJs and never will.

I think enough of myself to allow myself to relax in my own home. Slovenly? Really?

I wouldn't go to my big Sainsbury's in pyjamas. But popping in to the corner shop at 10pm.in my pj's? No problem.