Going out shopping in your pyjamas

[NicolaDeLaHaye]

AIBU to think it's lazy and slovenly?

takealettermsjones, maybe she doesn’t care. Fair play to her!

But would you have slept in them the night before? That's the problem.

I think it shows how much society has degraded with a total lack of self respect and respect for where you live.

I grew up on a huge council estate (50s, 60s and early 70s) and would never see people outside in their nightwear. Apart from a very few exceptions everyone looked after their houses and gardens as well. They didn't need to be full of flowers, just a mowed lawn or put down to gravel. Had a drive around there a couple of years ago for old times sake when we were back in that part of the country. What a tip. Old furniture laying in front gardens and broken bikes, toys and litter strewn about. Dirty windows with ragged curtains. Obviously no one cared.

Back in the day people living there had their problems just like today. Very little money (at one time Mum had shoes for work and I had shoes for school but shared one pair for 'best'). But what people had was looked after, kept clean, neat and tidy. The area might have been poor but people took a pride in what little they had and looked after it to make the best possible environment for everyone to live in as they were able.

And definitely no PJ's in shops or on the school run.

I drive ds to the station at an ungodly hour in my dressing gown.. however I could never walk into a supermarket like that.

I love my pyjamas. I wear them at home after work, in the evening and if I’m not going out at the weekend. I don’t wear them to the shops but I have popped my jacket over them to pick my wife up from the station after work. Nobody can see them as I’m in the car, but I wouldn’t mind. They’re nice pyjamas.

I really dont like this and yet I see it all the time round my way. I dont see how hard it is to get dressed? or at least wear pajamas that arent so obvious.
Ive just finished nightshifts and am wearing joggers and a sweatshirt coz its basically daytime pajamas I can sleep in and walk the dogs in.

Generally round here there are 2 types of daytime pj wearers. Young mums on the school run/popping to the corner shop or older people in the high st off to buy more booze, second type usually have a faint odour of urine about them.

Nobody has explained as to me how it is possible to tell black leggings and sweatshirt worn as pyjamas from black leggings and sweatshirt worn as day wear.

We came back home at the same time as a woman from down the road. She got out of her car wearing pyjamas, (grubby) dressing gown, socks and sliders. It was pretty clear that she’d rushed out to the shops and she definitely looked as though she’d just got out of bed to go.

At one school I worked at, there was a pyjama day for charity. I bought a thick pair of pyjamas, wore underwear and a substantial dressing gown. Somehow, I felt wrong all day.

I hate it when nurseries/preschools do pyjama days! So confusing for young children and/or those with sensory issues, developmental delays, etc.

I hear you. It's a really strange thing, you'd just feel weird at work in your pyjamas, especially as a teacher!

"Life is too short to get dressed" 😂😂. All of 5 or 10 minutes.

Exactly. If pyjamas are a top and trousers they are presumably suitable for nipping to the pub for a quick drink then?

If you can bother putting clean pyjamas on you can shift yourself to put outdoor wear on.

Yes, suitable for a barrister in court, a doctor in a clinic, a teacher in school, a vicar in church, ....

This is just part of the fantasy the tell themselves, that they're so chilled, zany and alternative. They're far too interesting and exciting to do anything as mundane as, you know, putting on appropriate clothing.

You have to wonder how sad and empty their lives are if this was the only way they could get any attention and excitement in their day.

It is scummy! There is no way someone who thinks this is ok is going out with freshly washed and ironed pj’s.

What next - pyjamas at funerals?

Totally! Anything that challenges their doctrine is a pointless challenge. They will defend until the end of kingdom come.

I do believe in standards. My parents and grandparents passed standards down to
me and I will pass standards down to my descendants. It does them no harm. Them seeing me slouching around in
PJs all day is……I’m lost for words.

And many may say that there is more to teaching our youngsters about being functional, productive and mentally resilient people in society than whether they wear their PJs as day wear.
But I think it is all part of the whole.

No wonder some of them think that wedding outfits are fancy dress! Formal day wear must be quite a shock to people who live in pyjamas.

Actually prefer it to sweaty Mamls and yummy mummies in their butt-munched gym kit if I’m honest.

Oh my, I wish I could go out in my PJs but I just cannot do it. Most of the time, I am all dressed up and have a make up on too. I do sometimes walk my dog in my pjs, when she wakes up early in the morning and the trail is right beside my house. I pray no one will see me and usually run back home though. 🤣

I agree, not sure what the point of it all really is.

To teach children that it is ok to pop to Tesco in your PJs.

Well, that is an important lesson to learn, I guess, in the whole scope of things.

Don't do it myself, but I couldn't imagine caring what someone else chooses to wear.

If the objection is that they haven't washed, then that's silly because someone who's dressed in day clothes could have been wearing them all week without regularly showering, too.

It's just another form of bullshit snobbishness that people can use to "prove" they're better than others.

I suppose it goes hand in hand with some of the other outlandish things that they are
teaching them at school now days.