AIBU to think children should not be taken shopping in pyjamas?

[NoahVale]

what is the craze for taking y our young dc to the shops in their pyjamas?
bad enough that they drive there but walking down the high street in pyjamas,
it looks appalling.
i just saw a man going past my house, he had been to the shops, and i thought, i bet he didnt wash before he went to the shops, next thing a woman coming up the road with 3 dc in their pjyamas

No one should be shopping or going out in public in their pyjamas.

You seem to be over-invested in what other people are doing.

Honestly? I have never ever seen it

just musing as people walk past my window

We regularly do the breakfast run in pyjamas! Also, just because people are dressed, does not mean they have washed!

What is the breakfast run?

Generally I don't think anyone should go out in pyjamas but I can't get het up about young children. A few weeks ago DS and I were dropping DH off for a night out, ds had already had a bath and was in his pyjamas, he was coming home to brush his teeth, read a story and go to bed. On the way back I remembered we were low on milk so stopped at the shop to get some, I wouldn't leave ds in the car on his own so he came in with me. We got the milk and he went home to bed. Why does it affect you?

ETA the pyjamas were from John Lewis if that makes it any less traumatic for you

I think it depends, when my son was young after his swimming lesson he would get into a onesie or pjs and we might then pop to the shops with him on the way home.

Where do you live where you have a stream of people walking past your house in pyjamas?! Are you sure they’re not those co-ord sets? They look like pjs on me, that’s why I don’t wear them.

Why not?

So they are walking not driving

I take it you have no plans for this bank holiday Monday other than to sit on your coach and watch people living outside?

positive that all 3 of them were in pyjamas, mum wasnt
i live en route to a corner shop

i take it you take your children out in their pyjamas, bank holiday monday morning @ 9.00 am?

I don't care what other people wear as long as their genitals aren't exposed.

Who sits at the window passing judgement over people and making assumptions about the last time they showered? Can you smell him through the window?

Do you like people gawping into your house and looking in your windows making judgements about your hygiene or sartorial choices?

where we live everyone puts their DC in Pyjamas after swimming lessons. We quite often make a pitstop on the way home from this. Can’t get wound up about it

Never seen it
I did however see 2 teenage girls in pj's in a park last week, late morning

i wasnt sitting, i was standing, doing the washing up, i grow plants so people can't see to pass judgement,

Yeah, it's been a thing for a long time now... this headline is 9 years ago (Tesco was downplaying a complaint from fellow customers).
Those here who claim never to have seen or heard of it must be Waitrose or Ocado shoppers. I've seen it loads round my way. I find it slobby, and I most definitely judge (adult) people who do it 🙂

I live in an area where pyjamas is totally normal wear for going about the streets or to the local shop. They are usually much nicer pyjamas than I wear (at home only) with matching nice dressing gowns and the children have coordinated jammies/slippers/dressing gowns. Not ideal, but as long as kids are clean I'm not going to waste more than a few seconds thinking about it. I'm more judgey when the grown kids are all carrying bottles though, it's very bad for the teeth/jaws.

It’s the adults out in pjs/dressing gowns that are the real problem! Every time I see them I’m embarrassed on their behalf. How hard is it to put on some basic clothes ffs 😂
Although I do remember hearing a teenage girl crying to her dad in Asda that people were staring at her, she was out in an oodie and pjs. Like what do you expect?! People will look if you’re wearing something stupid.

Adults yea, means you’ve not showered when leaving the house and that’s a bit gross. Kids though? Couldn’t get mad about that. In fact when my DCs were baby to toddler it saved me a load of laundry 🤣

I put my daughter in a onesie after swimming and the leisure centre is on the high street so she does walk out afterwards with it on, would that bother you?

a onesie isnt the same is it?

I read a tip on here about putting dc in their pjs after swimming which I thought was inspired.

Mine (6 and 8 at the time) were mortified at the idea, and refused point blank. Maybe I should have trained them up young by taking them out and about shopping.

Not true necessarily. People have day pyjamas and sleeping ones. This is quite common in council estates. Your proper clothes are for 'going out' ie when you leave the estate.