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

You should associate with YOUR mental health. Shouldn’t make assumptions about what does and doesn’t effect other people’s mental health, let alone something so small and petty as PJs

Says it all, doesn't it?

That’s interesting!

Can we stand there with hand fans clutching our pearls sniffing smelling salts pretty please?

I don't sleep in PJs either - I wear them as leisure wear and then sleep in underwear or naked. Am I allowed to wear my PJs outside the house if I promise to wear "undies" (🤮 is all I have to say about the word)?

Yes to be fair I would too but each to their own I guess.

When iv bathed my younger kids and gotten them settled for the afternoon/evening and me or my husband have to drive to town to pick up my older kids from work and go into the shops they very well are going to be in their pjs. Iv also often taken my teenage kids to the shop in their pjs. We also here in aus see people come to the shops in their pjs if its early morning or late evening. What someone is wearing around town has nothing to do with any one else. Also I dont understand how what someone is wearing upsets you so much that it takes time out of your day to post about it. It always weirds me out how people get so upset over what other people are doing in their own lives and their own little bubbles.

I suppose they're making life easier for themselves. If they've run out of something its quicker to take DC as they are than get everyone ready. At one time it would have been unheard of to take this type of short cut, but obviously people have dispensed with the old etiquette and are doing what is easiest. As it hurts no one, and life with multiple DC and presumably no available adult to leave them with while you pop out is quite hard, it's understandable.

Says all what, precisely?

To be clear, I'm very much not a fan of PJs in public myself, but you and the pp appear to be trying to make a point about benefit claimants here?

YANBU. Pyjamas belong strictly indoors, hospitalisation and mad dashes to pull the forgotten bin out exempted.

I’m judging all of this.
Not only are you wasting money and petrol on shit ( and teaching this to your kids at the same time) it’s not even a treat. Because that would require effort ie putting clothes on.

And before theres some justification like you are all shift workers and all the kids have SEN - why buy from terrible chains. Find an independent and support the flipping community.

I would never feel the need to get into this habit regularly but I have done it before and couldn't give a toss what some nosey neighbour thinks nor do I feel the need to judge anyone else who does this. They're nipping to the shop to get milk not being summoned by the queen. My dd used to go for early morning swimming lessons on Sundays. She'd just started reception. She also does dancing early on Saturdays and during the week. Yes I used to encourage her to slip a clean onesie on over her swimming costume to do her swimming lesson. So much easier than a full set of clothes and I felt she deserved to be a bit lazy after a full week of school, 6 hours of dance lessons,swimming lessons and school. You best believe that if we needed to nip to the supermarket on the way home we used to do so with dd in her onesie and I couldn't give a toss what judgey strangers think! Dd works hard and has hardly any lie-ins due to her hobbies. She does extremely well at school and her hobbies and has a strong work ethic. If a young child going to the shop in a onesie makes a few uptight people blush then sobeit.

I would estimate it takes an abled bodied person, approximately 60 seconds at the very very most to take nightwear off and put on clean pants and socks, trousers and a top. It just shows complete lack of self respect to leave the house in your pyjamas. It’s beyond fucking grim.

Admittedly it will take longer for kids to get dressed. But getting your children dressed, washed and fed is the bare minimum of what it takes to be a parent.

So not only can someone not go and grab a coffee with their child in PJs, you’re also rotating what shops they go to and how they travel there.

I’m not sure what reality you live in, but I’m glad we’re on different planets

Move away from the window and live your life instead of monitoring and judging everyone else.

I find it grim simply because it makes me assume that you’re outside in PJs, only to go home and lounge about in the very same PJs.

I have inside and outside clothes.

I agree with you. It's actually disrespectful to other people. I wonder if the "as long as your genitals are covered" brigade would think it's OK for me (not young and slim) to wander around the high street in a bikini?

I'm not, why would I be? I dress a certain way to go to my office job in central London. I'd feel silly dressed the same way in a Lidl in a rural deprived area.

Now here’s another thought to spark a debate! I wonder if having been out in said pyjama's do people get back into bed in them!

This.

It’s just attention seeking. Just a way for people to say ‘look at me. I’m different. I’m cool. I don’t care what people think. I got these lovely stripey PJs for my birthday and I want to show them off beyond my dh/dc’s’

Calling it a ‘craze’ does seem like quite the overstatement to me but perhaps your area is very different to mine. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone out and about in their pyjamas? I suppose it must have happened once or twice, but maybe it just didn’t really register? I agree that it’s not great, but there’s plenty around who do much worse!

What's wrong with "undies"? Saves itemising the various components

You really must spend a lot of time at that window.
Can you actually see what people driving past in cars are wearing? That’s some xray vision you have.

Can't believe all the excuses and justifications people are giving here. It takes a bit of effort to get dressed in the morning so it's just lazy and slovenly to go to the supermarket in pj's, a practice .mostly carried out by people who can't be arsed. And doing a regular breakfast run just magnifies the laziness of not being arsed to prepare a family breakfast in their own kitchen.