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Are you a Pyjama Mummy?

69 replies

Lilymaid · 08/06/2007 13:45

I don't know why some of you complain about mums dressing up to collect DCs from school. You need to go to Belfast

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kittylette · 09/06/2007 10:35

Thats awful , why on earth would you leave the house in your PJs???

yowch · 09/06/2007 10:42

Women, Know YOur Place!

michymama · 09/06/2007 10:50

a few years ago my little sister (when she was about 17) went through the stage of wearing her pjs wherever she went, her and her mates. One night they were going to a club, they got into the car with their pjs, drove to the club then got changed in the car ????? they would go to the supermarket too, actually this is quite normal where they live, I've been to asda many times and seen women in pjs and slippers. BTW they live in Liverpool.

madamez · 09/06/2007 11:07

It's just more woman-bashing, really, coupled with bash-the-working-class. Why shouldn't people wear what they want?

NKF · 09/06/2007 11:13

People can wear what they like. They're not being arrested. It's just that if you go out without getting dressed, nobody takes you seriously. Of course if you don't mind being laughed at, then there's nothing to worrya about.

michymama · 09/06/2007 11:38

I'm working class, people should wear what they want but if u sleep in ur pygamas all night then just roll out of bed and go out in them, makes me wonder, well did u brush ur teeth ? wash ur face ?? If its just for a few minutes then fair enough but if ur wearing all day the pygamas u slept in then I find it a bit disgusting.

Ripeberry · 10/06/2007 22:25

At my DD1 school quite a lot of parents come and collect their kids barefoot, even in winter! Weird.
AB

Lovecat · 10/06/2007 22:47

Michymama, there was a big hoohah in the Liverpool Echo a few years ago about these 'pyjama women', I remember reading about it on a visit to my parents and thinking wtf?! because they certainly weren't doing it when I lived there in the eighties!

It's commented upon in the link here (hope that works!)

ja9 · 10/06/2007 23:04

hilarious!

i'm from belfast. i'm about this!

TooTicky · 10/06/2007 23:07

This is beyond belief! Are you sure it's not a wind-up?

Frizbe · 10/06/2007 23:08

went round woburn abbey in my jammies a few years ago, when young free and single with my mates Heavy night out in London day before n we couldn't face the flat full of people we woke up to, so we bailed in our jammies and went home (north) via a few service stations and a tourist attraction

Shrinkinglily · 10/06/2007 23:17

Yep, I'm in Belfast and I do wear pyjamas alot and mule type slippers. Don't wear them to school though

RosaLuxembourg · 10/06/2007 23:22

These are my pjs - should I wear them on the school run tomorrow?

EricL · 10/06/2007 23:31

Bloody hell Rosa - they look like something you could wear out in the evenings......

I have heard about this from one of my friends in the US. It's all the rage over there to come to school in your pj's and get changed. Norway too.

Don't see the attraction myself. We don't own pj's anyway - we wander round in the scud as much as we can!

NikkiBFG · 10/06/2007 23:32

I don't see the problem with it...I've driven past our local school while taking DS to nursery and honestly, some people look total skanks..I'd rather see someone in a nice pair of pjs and funky slippers!!

RosaLuxembourg · 10/06/2007 23:37

They were a Valentines present from DH - actually I only wear them on special occasions, more like to sleep starkers - that look wouldn't go down will with the headteacher methinks.

fireflyfairy2 · 10/06/2007 23:46

Dh works in Belfast & told me months ago about some women wandering past the building site at lunchtime in their pyjamas! I have to say, I laughed at him & didn't believe him

Then it was in the paper last week & he said "Sure I told you that already, they are scruffy looking idiots"

In all seriousness, how long does it take to pull on a pair of jeans & a top? Why walk to school in a pair of jammies you have been laying sweating in all night

Shrinkinglily · 11/06/2007 08:10

I have a friend who wears pyjamas all day but they are clean on. It's actually her chosen outfit for the day

Hi Firefly! (It's Rosy by the way)

Oblomov · 11/06/2007 08:57

Wasn't all the hoo-ha, re the fact that the mums were colecting their children, in the AFTERNOON, in their pj's ? Which I do think is taking it a bit far. We could all rush out in the mornings in our pj's and be forgiven.
And this is Oblomov talking - Oblomov = Russian who held court, the whole story revolves around his flat and that is he is always in his 'dressing gown' = me - I live in my dressing gown and would never wear anything else given the choice - I have got up in the middle of the night and driven to the petrol station in my dressing gown before.
So, for me to say that it is a bit much, really means it IS a bit much !

noddyholder · 11/06/2007 09:22

I often did that when ds was little Don't see the problem although having been brought up in Northern Ireland I know that they are very much into what does and doesn't 'look'bad.Where I live no one batted an eyelid

Vulgar · 11/06/2007 10:38

A couple of years ago, I saw a woman at Bluewater shopping centre wearing a long t-shirt nighty with cartoon character on front and slippers with an older woman dressed normally carrying a small baby.

We tried really hard to think of why . . .we came to the conclusion that maybe she had gone into labour in the night and had been discharged in the morning . . .but neither of them were carrying a handbag or pushing a pram.

Not that we were staring of course.

fourboys · 11/06/2007 10:51

In the winter i have often worn pjs
to drop off the dc, but always wear a big coat and dont own comedy pjamas! Id hve a good laugh if i saw someone in sleepy bear flannelette pjs and slippers on the school run, even though I have no problem with anyone wearing whatever takes their fancy!

Housemum · 11/06/2007 14:42

Even Boden have stopped doing their "baggies" for adults (pull-on trousers that looked like PJ's)!

Is this inappropriate for the school run?

fin54 · 11/06/2007 22:23

I live 12 miles outside Belfast and can assure you this story is true, and no I don't go out in my PJ's but know loads of young girls who do.

MrsSpoon · 11/06/2007 22:29

ROFL!

I do know someone who did the School run in PJs and her car broke down.