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To think that women (or men) who drop their kids off at school in PJS, go shopping in Tesco in pj's and come down to the breakfast in a hotel in pj's are wrong in the head?

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YourAmplePlumPoster · 29/05/2025 19:22

I visited Amsterdam last year and was shocked to see an apparently middle class women coming down to breakfast in her pj's,dressing gown and slippers. Similarly going round Tescos where there are people, especially women in pj's and slippers. No doubt I'll be called an old right wing fascist or something.

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Bababear987 · 29/05/2025 20:06

I think its absolute tramp behaviour. I always assume that person has poor MH and hasnt worked. Just dont believe anyone with any type of dignity can be happy to be seen in public like that.
You dont need to be dressed up fancy or have make up and hair done. But hygiene and looking presentable is a basic life skill, so if someone cant even be bothered with that then standards are very low.

PinkCrochet · 29/05/2025 20:07

It’s appalling. I have not seen it but like to kid myself that it’s an urban myth…

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 29/05/2025 20:08

YourAmplePlumPoster · 29/05/2025 19:36

When i lived in Spain for a while, all the ladies dressed up to go shopping. It suggests a pride in one's appearance that we seem to have lost.

When was this? I grew up in Spain and no one got dressed up specifically to go shopping.

RedRosesAndGypsophelia · 29/05/2025 20:10

I sometimes wish we still had the 'dress for dinner' culture.
Certain items of clothing were expected to be worn and you would be heavily judged if you were not dressed for the occasion.

Namenamchange · 29/05/2025 20:10

We have parents mainly mums dropping their children at school in pj’s. This is often a small issue for them in what is very often in a very chaotic life.

Bigfatsunandclouds · 29/05/2025 20:12

I honestly have never seen anyone wearing pjs on the school run, in a hotel or in the shops. Maybe I have but it doesn't even register on my radar as I quite frankly couldn't care less what others wear.

I'm quite in awe of your make up and jewelry though OP - how on earth do you find the time before school to do all that? I know it's probably a 'get up earlier' thing but life is too short.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 29/05/2025 20:12

A hotel, yes I have noticed that.
I thought most supermarkets didn't allow pyjama wear. Never see it at the school either.

HunnyPot · 29/05/2025 20:14

I won’t even answer the door to a trades person in my PJ’s.

MyHouseInThePrairie · 29/05/2025 20:14

A few years ago, some schools had to send letters to the parents to tell them PJs were not suitable for the school run. Unfirtunately, it was Akso close to where I live…l So yes it has/is happening :(
And I’ve seen people in PJs in supermarkets too. Albeit it was a few years ago tbh.

Still makes me wonder how anyone would think it’s a good idea.
Im housebound. I rarely change into ‘normal clothes’. And I’m still uneasy at picking up parcels in my PJs. No way I’d go out like that unless I had no other choice!

Asdada · 29/05/2025 20:14

Saw it at a hotel in Blackpool at breakfast. These people did look like the scummiest of the scum though.

DissDissOrDiss · 29/05/2025 20:15

Stickortwigs · 29/05/2025 19:53

I saw it in a hotel for the first time recently. But she had Louis Vuitton stilettos as well so definitely can’t call that slovenly😀

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Absolute HEIGHT of common!

suburburban · 29/05/2025 20:16

ThatsNotMyTeen · 29/05/2025 20:02

It’s a bit slovenly isn’t it

Yes definitely

starrynight009 · 29/05/2025 20:17

There's one mum at our school who drops her son off at school in her pyjamas every single morning. I heard her laughing with another mum about it once, saying she had changed her pyjamas before coming out that day at least. I don't get it. If she has time to change her pyjamas, she has time to put some jeans and a jumper on! She is a very lazy parent though.

Dangermoo · 29/05/2025 20:18

Somebody's full of themselves 🙄

itsgettingweird · 29/05/2025 20:18

I think the hotel thing could be cultural.

I travel around Britain a lot as ds competes and I’ve been in plenty of travel lodge, premie inn and holiday inns where there have been European guests (adults and school groups) who go to breakfast in their PJs.

school run and shopping are different though.

YourAmplePlumPoster · 29/05/2025 20:20

Basic decorum has gone out of the window it seems. Hotels and pubs are already clamping down on this. This lady i saw in the Amsterdam hotel seemed to be an entitled middle class woman and was going around the whole

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Fgfgfg · 29/05/2025 20:20

During COVID all our university interviews went online. I interviewed a number of people in their pjs and some were even in bed. Make an effort!
I offered a place to the lad who was interviewed in his bedroom and had gone to the effort of wearing a suit and tie - council house, poor background for anyone interested in judging his social class.

Dangermoo · 29/05/2025 20:20

DissDissOrDiss · 29/05/2025 20:15

Absolute HEIGHT of common!

Pun intended I hope! Agree with you btw

XenoBitch · 29/05/2025 20:20

Why women? Or are men ok to do this?

Dangermoo · 29/05/2025 20:22

Fgfgfg · 29/05/2025 20:20

During COVID all our university interviews went online. I interviewed a number of people in their pjs and some were even in bed. Make an effort!
I offered a place to the lad who was interviewed in his bedroom and had gone to the effort of wearing a suit and tie - council house, poor background for anyone interested in judging his social class.

Aww bless him ❤️

YourAmplePlumPoster · 29/05/2025 20:23

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HeronTwist · 29/05/2025 20:24

YourAmplePlumPoster · 29/05/2025 19:33

I'm just reporting hearsay about the Tesco and school run, though as I said I have seen the pj's in the Amsterdam Hotel. Another hotel I visited recently had a sign saying, please come to the breakfast area suitably attired. I would feel embarrassed to go out wearing my pjs 🙃

Ah, so you’re complaining about something you have no experience of, because it gives you something to get uppity and superior about? And you kind of like that feeling?

RampantIvy · 29/05/2025 20:24

I saw a family in pyjamas at breakfast in the Selsdon Park Hotel many years ago. They stood out from the other guests who were fully dressed, and I noticed a lot of people staring at them and commenting.

It was the first and only time I have seen hotel guests in pyjamas at breakfast.

I don't wear pyjamas in bed, and always get dressed when I get up. I hate staying in nightwear. It makes me feel lazy snd unmotivated and like I haven't started the day.

We have a lot of Teams meetings at work with the camera on so pyjamas are a no no.

polarsystem · 29/05/2025 20:24

Stickortwigs · 29/05/2025 19:53

I saw it in a hotel for the first time recently. But she had Louis Vuitton stilettos as well so definitely can’t call that slovenly😀

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Pyjamas with Louis stilettos ? Wow 😂😂

Dangermoo · 29/05/2025 20:24

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You're very judgemental!

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