Onsies - is it purely a UK phenomonen?

[MrTumblesBavarianFanbase]

I see constant references to onsies on my fb newsfeed and sometimes on MN chat...

Is everyone in the UK wearing babygrows outside working hours?

Do people over the age of 2 wear "onsies" where you live?

I wanted to ask on "living overseas" because it sounds as if onsies have become "normal" in the UK, but I've never seen them in the shops here in Germany, and children who stay at ours for sleepovers don't bring babygrows onsies, so I don't think they exist.

Am I the only one living overseas who thinks the UK population have possibly gone a tiny bit loopy, with their apparently wholesale rush back into nursery sleepwear, or is it in fact perfectly normal?

:)

[tabulahrasa]

Balaclavas and onesies seems a bit, well hot, lol.

Besides DD is a teenage girl - I can't see her covering the hair it took an hour to straighten with a balaclava...though to be fair, I'd you'd asked me beforehand I'd have laughed at the idea of her wearing fuzzy monkey clothes to her friend's house, so maybe it could catch on?

[qazxc]

thepig oh i'm in ireland and sadly seen them on adults. it started at festivals, then people on nights out being "hilarious", but now some of the "pyjama brigade" have switched to onesies, most recently seen one in supermarket with fake uggs and faceful of orange slap.

[ThePigOfHappiness]

Qazxc NO! I really thought we were safe from that phenomena...
Where abouts are you?

[meditrina]

"did people used to wear onesie like long underwear, with said trap door, night and day, long, long ago, in the days of being sewn into your clothes for winter?"

I have no idea! But it would be quite pratical, wouldn't it? Maybe that's why it's more popular in UK than elsewhere in Europe - the cost of fuel and other ways to keep warm.

[qazxc]

meath/louth.

[IHadADreamThatWasNotAllADream]

I have seen them twice in the street in London - once on a hungover student type grabbing a lunchtime patty from the bakers - he clearly lived just next door, and once on a bunch of people attending some kind of sporting event with a dress as an animal theme. They were all on the platform at Clapham Junction in broad daylight, it was most disconcerting.

DD wants one for Christmas .

[MrTumblesBavarianFanbase]

Does one sleep in a onEsie? Or are they like dressing gowns? If one sleeps on them, doesn't the risk of yeast infection or dehydration outweigh the anti threadworm powers? If not how do they prevent scratching?

I never knew onEsies were such a health benefit/ hazard minefield, only that they look like fancy dress babygrows...

I don't usually say "one", btw :o

[qazxc]

also i am worried as DP has expressed interest in getting one for christmas, hopefully not to out in. And i've just found out he knows all words to cheryl cole's fight for this love. Am i living and reproducing with a twat?

[starsandunicorns]

You are overdressed in normal clothes at the local co-op where I live I havent got one but every other person seems to have one where I live though it feel it is a stage up from pjs and dressings gowns and wellies on a sunday morning getting the milk bread etc

[starsandunicorns]

Also see loads of people wearing them at motorway service stations

[BaronessBomburst]

They have them in the Netherlands. They seem to be some kind of dressing gown. I'm not convinced......

[IHeartKingThistle]

Onesies don't fit me . I have a ridiculously long body and they are a bit, ahem, uncomfortable.

But I want one!

[tabulahrasa]

You can't scratch like you could in pyjamas because they cover everything and zip up at the front...not because they have anti-scratching powers, lol.

Yes children definitely sleep in them as well as just randomly...no clue about adults.

[3bunnies]

I can turn the heating down lower when they are in onesies so I save on heating and threadworm medicine - the onesie is a fabulous invention just don't make me wear one!

[smokeandglitter]

I wear a onesie when it's cold. It has feet and a hood with a leopard face/ears. Inside the house unless nipping to the corner shop for milk (with no orange slap). It's lovely, I'm snug as a bug in a rug.

[smokeandglitter]

Oh and I'm in England!

[prettybird]

One of the local rugby clubs near me has a club onesie! .

Only saw it 'cos I was at the sports shop that does all the local kits getting a base layer for ds.

[goodasitgets]

I wear them but more cotton/jersey ones than those disturbingly static fleece ones, and they don't have feet
I get freezing in bed when my top rides up, they're comfy and I wear a vest under for toilet trips. Would never ever leave the house in it

[WallyBantersJunkBox]

None in Switzerland yet.

I was amazed at the choice there is this year online. My DH wants one too. He'll look like bloody George Dawes in one.

In H&M they have always sold a footless version for kids up to 11 years old.

I bought DS a cute one in H&M when he was 3. It was a dinosaur skin pattern and the back had scales sewn in up the spine. I went upstairs one night in the dark, and he must have crept out of his room for a sneaky post lights out play on the landing.

He was fast asleep stretched out on the floor with this Dino onesie on.

I nearly shat myself. I thought it was a giant lizard. I nearly drop kicked him.

[BeCool]

I don't sleep in mine. Think if it as the new jogging bottoms and sweatshirt/lounge ware

[AdoraBell]

I've seen them here in Chile, but only in the shops and only since Top Shop, Wharehouse et al arrived earlier this year.

[MooseBeTimeForSnow]

Here in Canada they call the ones with the trap door "flapjacks"

[TheZeeTeam]

I hate to tell you all this, but Onesies are another American import. They have been around for years in the US. I don't know any grown adults that would actually wear one though. Here, it's for the kind of family that also wear matching Christmas sweaters and then go to a local "beauty spot" to take photos for their cards. My kids love 'em though!

T-shirts and ugly fleecy pants (ie pajama bottoms)? I'm right there.

[TheZeeTeam]

Also, you need to look out for ugly pants (trousers) made out of towels for the pool. They are HUUUUGE over here.

You swim, you shower, you don a hoodie and towelled pants and you go home. Not me, obviously. But the kids love it.

[WallyBantersJunkBox]

DS used to love his Boden toweling hoodie on the beach, so I can see how the pants would catch on.


I had always thought the Onesie was a US thing first actually, as was the Slankie - I remember seeing the ads consistently on TV in Vegas years ago, along with the super annoying Chia 'Erb Garden ones.