Where did all the eccentrics go?

There were two women in their pyjamas in our Sainsburys on Sunday. I might have been less if it was close to a hospital but no...

Some of us are still around.

absent
I shall keep a good look out. I'm off to Lidl in a few mins - oh wait I'd better get dressed first.

I think it is a class thing. You have to be upper class to be an acceptable eccentric otherwise you are carted off by the men in white coats. But where are the white coats..

There was a rich woman 40 years ago hereabouts who kept a herd of milking goats. She had a parlour palace built for them while she slept in the hayloft in ( I'm told) squalor

On Monday I had lunch at a garden centre. A couple with a baby came in. The young woman was wearing pyjamas and dressing gown.
My 16 year old granddaughter is definitely eccentric. A whacky dresser. Different from her contemporaries. Her father is also eccentric in his dress as is a male friend, professor, very eccentric. They are around.

Going to the shops in pyjamas is not eccentric. It’s just lazy.

The two women in pyjamas I saw yesterday who were having a lovely chat on the street at lunch time looked much happier than me who was fully dressed rushing between workplaces. It may be sanity rather than laziness

Eccentric meaning.... Unconventional and slightly strange.Going to the shops etc. in pyjamas is unconventional and slightly strange as far as I am concerned.

It's slovenly and lazy as dar as I am concerned.

Far not dar

As I get older, I do more and more things that some might consider eccentric, I suppose. I am less likely to not do something I really want to do just because of what others might think.

If I were rich, I might well choose to live like the woman mentioned by Grammaretto .

My every-day fashion style, though, is more 'scruffy' than 'eccentric', and as far as I am concerned is perfectly suited to my outdoor life in the often muddy countryside.

Going to the shops in pyjamas. Why on earth would you? Do they stay in said pyjamas all day? Do they change into clean pyjamas when they go to bed, or do they sleep in the……no, let’s not go there!

Going out in pyjamas and dressing gowns??? I must be out of touch. It seems slovenly to me.

Our local primary school put out a note to parents asking them not to drop off children when they were in night clothes (the parents not the children). Some people were up in arms about it until the school pointed out that it gave the impression that parents weren’t coping and could lead to safeguarding concerns.

I don't really give a damn what other people are wearing. Or what I'm wearing, come to that. I do occasionally look in the mirror and think, 5 years ago you were attractive, well dressed and 'styled'. Then I think 'Oh, F* it' and carry on being a slob.

There was a person in the town I used to live in, appeared to be male, may not have been. Wore a combination of mens and women's clothes. Always had lovely earrings. Also used to be a fair number of dramatically dressed goths. And (casting back into the mists of time), I remember living on the Kings Road and seeing all the lovely punks.

Wish I had the energy for creativity really. Meh.

'People have to be so careful not to stand out in the way they dress. so many murders on the street for looking different....

remember the young girl murdered in a park because she was dressed as a 'goth' a few years ago....

corri did a storyline on the murder with 'nina' being attacked

Just a thought. Are you sure they were pyjamas. I've recently bought what is called lounge wear, comfortable loose what look like jogging bottoms and matching loose tops. My grandson, on seeing me yesterday, said " have you got pyjamas on?". My daughter in law said " great lounge wear". Maybe some misconceptions?

There are two sisters who go in our local pub. They must be in their 70s. They wear exactly same clothes usually glittery skimpy dresses or shorts, fishnet tights, glittery boots. They are covered in tattoos. People who haven't seen them before are taken aback.
We had a day trip to Glastonbury a few years ago. The town, not the festival. Plenty of eccentric people there!

I’ve got Pyjama luxe down to a fine art.
All my clothes are glorified pyjamas. Voluminous dresses and cuffed cotton trews with Ugg boots.

If you think that you are eccentric you most probably are not.
It’s the ‘normal ones’ that you need to look out for ?
Most of us are eccentric, but not for the reasons that we think

I've often been called quirky. Is that another word for eccentric?

Perhaps it depends where you live as my town is completely stuffed with eccentrics. We're not a million miles from Glastonbury and we seem to attract fabulous oddballs. They come for the festival, get into the vibe and never quite go home.

The following folk spring to mind - a man who dresses as a pirate complete with parrot on shoulder, a lady we all call The Tzar because she wears a floor length red coat and astrakhan hat and a guy in full pilot's jump suit who rides a tricycle with two bichon frise dogs yapping from the basket.

Where we lived before there was a lady who looked like Hattie Jacques who wore a fairy outfit complete with pint tulle skirts and tiara as she went about her business. Oh, and another guy called Ron who is a TV historian who daily went around dressed as a Victorian. These are only the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe I attract these people? Odd as I'm completely normal myself.

Pyjama luxe Brilliant!

Ugg-bootalicious?

We are very boring here in Urmston.
Well, apart from our ‘Elvis’ lookalike, a man in his 70’s who wears crêpe soles, long sideburns, slicked back black hair (dyed, natch).
Oh and the guy who wears shorts in all weathers, has purple hair and takes his two cream coloured ferrets out for a walk in the square most days.

When he was about 14, DS, while passing through the living room turned to us and said 'I am so glad I have eccentric parents' and walked on.

Quite how we were/are eccentric I am not sure, I thought we were boringly normal.

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