Sartorial statment - wearing day time pyjamas.. Is this happening in under privileged areas in the uk ??

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Maybe this should be on a different board, as it's a social issue, but I'm just wondering if this is unique to inner city Dublin, or if it's a global anti-establishment kind of phenomenon. It's definitely reaching the suburbs now here! I saw two girls in pyjamas in a cafe in South Dublin today. Everybody did risk a quick stare, so it's not the norm, but still......

Is this anti-establishment sartorial statement sweeping Britain too....?

Are we really talking proper, proper bedtime PJ's? Or just loung-y wear, lying-on-the-settee slobbing-around type stuff?

I saw 3 girls (late teens/ early 20s)
Sat in their flannel sheep print pjs at their plastic table in the front garde, smoking and drinking white lightening whilst their offspring ran a around clad in their nappies ( one of whom was drinking tea from bottle) in a rough deprived part of town.
Judge?
You bet your ass I did.

There was a girl in my local Spar wearing her dressing gown and slippers over PJs

She had make up and hair done

I don't think she looked as sexy as she might have hoped

I have driven once in my Pjs and my wet hair in a turban - my shower was broken and I had gone to my Mums for one!

Scousers have been doing this for years. In fact it's a bit passe now. The new trend is wearing velco curlers in your hair on a Saturday shopping trip in town

Maybe it was awfully daring in Hilda Ogden's youth?

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Velcro curlers here too. Very Alex Gerrard/ Colleen Rooney. There was an article in our local paper about it!

First time I saw a couple of girls in their PJs in Sainsburys, I thought they were going to a fancy dress party. Then I realised that that particular Sainsburys often has girls/women wearing them to do the shopping. Only ever been there in the evenings though, is on my way home, so not sure if people are similarly attired in the daytime.

It looks really slutty.

I agree with woopsidaisy - this happens in certain areas of Belfast all the time. I used to drive through one particular area to get to work and used to bump into lots of women going to the shop in their PJs and slippers, and not even putting a coat over it to disguise it - they were in their dressing gowns too! Thw worst was that I didn't just see it when I was going to work, it frequently happened on the way home too!
I seem to recall the local news being all buzz about a year or so ago when Tesco banned people from entering their stores in their PJs!

What??! I've never heard of this! Mid-Wales is ye to catch up with you city fashionistas... :o

Thankfully the west midlands doesn't seem to have caught on to this trend yet! I small secret part of me yearns to be able to go out in my lovely comfy PJ's.........I could never actually do it though!!

I've noticed a few cases of this too. It's quite weird. I remember at Uni there was a culture of wearing pyjamas outside to smoke or to pop round to other halls, it was a kind of "look at me and how hungover/lazy/unbothered by attending lectures/cutesy I am, I haven't even got dressed!" statement. I suspect this is something similar.

The only time I've ever come across pyjama wearing in public was with very posh students at university. They get taxis to their classes wearing their pyjamas, but somehow seem to have found the time to slap on loads of make-up and tease their birds' nest hair into an oh-so-fashionable mess.

I've seen this at preschool but thankfully not at primary. Its generally PJ's with jumper and uggs although the odd dressing gown has crept in. We have coined a name for this - Lambrini Mums.

It's really irritating seeing people in jammies at 3.30pm picking up from nursery. FFS get dressed.

DD is learning about night and day at pre-school atm and this morning, they all had to go in their pj's etc. for a pyjama party. We got some seriously weird looks walking to pre-school and she's only 3

Definitely not something I've seen anywhere near here (albeit its not inner city/deprived)

It has nothing to do with not showering- the girls I see wearing them have ironed them specially and are generally in full make-up. It is definitely an 'outfit'.

ironed pyjamas? ironed pyjamas?

Some of the ones I've seen would be stretching the term 'girl' quite a bit. Here its definitely about being a lazy cow - bed hair and yesterdays slap still caked on.

i have never encountered this in my part of Scotland thank God .Why?

You don't live in Glasgow vintage

Can I just ask why people think it's 'slutty'?
Lazy - yes I understand.
But surely it's the opposite of 'slutty' ?
Do you mean slovenly?

I have to admit as a student *many years ago in the early 90s) we used to go to the Union shop in PJs after a heavy night.... but I have recently noticed mums dropping kids off to school in PJs, and I have seen them in Tesco as well (after the school run). I am in the East Midlands. I read a local newspaper article that one supermarket had banned people wearing PJs from the shop!

I was confused because they always have makeup and jewellery on? So surely not that much in a hurry to get out of the door?

I do have to admit that I once woke up so late that I had to drive to the stables in my PJs to feed (shove wellies on, run out of house) and turn out our horse and pony before school/work and was terrified that the car would break down and I would be seen in public like that!