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Why do people walk about the streets in Pyjamas?

66 replies

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 17/03/2008 20:16

I have noticed it over the last 12 months.People at retail parks,supermarkets and in the post office,wearing pyjamas!

Saw a whole family once complete with dressing gowns and last week in PO i saw a woman and her daughter both in them??

Find it really shocking.What on earth is going on??

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Tutter · 17/03/2008 20:19

are you sure? have yuou bneen on the cooking sherry?

or are you thinking of thjose velour loungesuits?

eekamoose · 17/03/2008 20:20

Watching with interest. Can't offer an explanation but have also often thought the same. Very judgey on this issue. If I can get clothes on every day by 8.45am (and I have exceptionally low standards) then why can't these others?

Youcannotbeserious · 17/03/2008 20:23

Where do you live / shop? I've never seen small families wandering around in night clothes and would be pretty if I did...

That said, I do often walk the dog in my PJs (with jeans and jumper over, so you'd never know )

GermaineSneer · 17/03/2008 20:23

i see sloaney girls in kind of pyjamam bottoms tracksuits

FrannyandZooey · 17/03/2008 20:24

I have heard a few people saying this

I have never seen it myself, I wish I HAD, I would love a good gawp

Oliveoil · 17/03/2008 20:25

dh works in a shite area and the local mothers do this

school run

so they can go back home and get back into bed imo

expatinscotland · 17/03/2008 20:25

Where the hell do you live?

There was a thread on here a while back about this, with some people believing it to be some kind of rebellious, cutely behemian chic statement to go out all minging and gross too fecking lazy to get dressed in pajamas.

lou33 · 17/03/2008 20:26

i saw a woman wearing a pair of these in bright green today

pooka · 17/03/2008 20:26

I was in boots recently and a young woman in her 20s was in the queue in front of me wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown. Wasn't buying anything that seemed particularly urgent or that would have necessitated mad dash from house - just some make-up and a magazine.
I was quite taken aback.

rantinghousewife · 17/03/2008 20:28

Blimey, where I live is really boring then, we don't have mad pyjama people on OUR streets.

Taweret · 17/03/2008 20:28

What on earth is the world coming to?

norkmaiden · 17/03/2008 20:29

oh Lou I like those!

At least pyjamas they ain't..

FrannyandZooey · 17/03/2008 20:29

I want mad pyjama people
I demand to see them
I may have to become one myself

Tutter · 17/03/2008 20:30

a story from last summer

lennygrrl · 17/03/2008 20:30

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Lmccrean · 17/03/2008 20:34

its pretty common still, in some places in belfast. saw a few millies out the other day in matching pjs in a cafe, and two in the tesco. never seen it where I live (about 10 miles from belfast)

lou33 · 17/03/2008 20:35

lol you like them?!!!

i was with my friend , and we both looked at each other and started quietly singing mc hammer, you cant touch this

not when she was in earshot tho

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CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 17/03/2008 20:36

I live in a nice area on edge of Bolton but shop in an d around Salford/Manchester

I haveto add that whilst I have seen some real trampy looking chavs wearing them I have seen some quite clean respectable bods too!!

Last ones I saw (in Tescos in Prestwich) I shouted "Are you sleepwalking???"

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expatinscotland · 17/03/2008 20:36

What are millies?

All these terms.

I have an Irish pal who went to university in Belfast and throws out stuff like 'spides' and 'skangers'.

I had a hard enough time learning to speak the language here.

PJs in public - minging.

stleger · 17/03/2008 20:42

Now also available in North Cork. Millies are usually wee millies, kindof chavvie I suppose.With attitude.

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CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 17/03/2008 20:44

I think that is really really bad too.What sort of an example does it set? Not to mention when you get up (or is it just me)you look like you have been dragged through a hedge backwards and the very thought of even opening the door in them makes me shudder as I usually have a load of baby sick down them by 8.00am

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Lmccrean · 17/03/2008 20:44

spides as in spiders =creepy=creeps

millies were mill workers - generally poor women. nowadays, its girls who wear tracksuits and huge hoop earring and a load of scrunchies in their hair who would be called millies. not that i like to generalise, of course)

minko · 17/03/2008 20:47

We walk through a v. pikey road on the way to school. There is one mum who appears from her house every morning in her Pjs and coat, dragging her kids behind her to the car. The other day her little boy, about 5yo, said he needed the toilet. She shouted 'well, you'll just have to fucking wait won't ya'.

Nice. All you need to know about pyjama wearing mums...

norkmaiden · 17/03/2008 20:53

Hmm, ikwym Lou! still like them though - with some cute sandals/feminine stuff to banish all thoughts of dodgy 80s rappers. And I bet they're dead comfy

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CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 17/03/2008 20:53

millies??

Women who worked in Mills may have been poor but they had standards.
These women are just tramps.

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