I am curious about people's behaviour.

This reminds me - at the start of lockdown, I got some lovely comfy velvet trousers from Monsoon to wear around the house. I also have velvet pyjamas in nearly the same colour.

Guess which ones I put on my bottom half when I went to get my eyebrows done without realising?

Let's start a new trend -when we go out it's full make up plus coiffeur ,evening dress ,gloves with rings on top and a tiara !

I can remember being told that it was not appropriate to
to wear a denim dress to afternoon tea .

I was shocked to see a cousin dressed in bright canary yellow shrieking with laughter at a relative's funeral .
It looked so disrespectful .
About to have a quick shop - having dozed off after lunch (my father is in hospital )I'm dressed very casually .

Talking to a friend today about going out to lunch I was visualising a dress .

I look back on old photo of myself and say 'did I actually wear that?!

Newatthis me too ??? None of them were PJs, but it may have been better if they had been ?

Riggi
Did it cross your mind for one second that the woman you saw in the petrol station might have had mental health problems ?
I think the answer is probably no, am I right?

The women being described on here and the one you saw are worlds apart.

Shawlands2000

My daughter had MS and was confined to a wheelchair. It was such a struggle for her to get dressed that she spent most of her time in her jammies. The MS nurses wanted her to make the effort to dress in the morning to inject some "normality" into her life but she continued to resist them. When she died and we were asked what she should be dressed in, there was no hesitation, her favourite jammies.

Oh Shawlands, I'm so sorry to hear that you have lost a daughter, I can empathise on every level as I lost a grown up daughter too, also wheelchair bound, following a head injury. I do hope the pain is manageable.

I've seen people wearing all manner of clothes outdoors and never given it a thought other than to imagine why it might be - and there are tons of possible reasons. I can't recall going out myself in my nightwear but if I did there would be a very good reason which would be my business and nobody else's.

I am constantly amazed at this obsession that everyone must shower daily. There are lots of reasons why it isn't necessary and may even be harmful for some people. It certainly isn't good for the environment or helping people struggling to make ends meet to pay their current rising heating bills.

I think pyjamas, rollers and (now I believe slippers) is actually 'up to the minute' fashion for ladies of a certain age group. I look back on old photo of myself and say 'did I actually wear that?! and wonder why some of my (very critical) family members didn't say anything. I was very fashionable at the time - huge platform shoes, micro mini skirts, twiggy lashes and various hair styles and from this I went to being a hippee!

I have never seen anyone out shopping in pyjamas. Personally I get dressed as soon as I get up, and don't put nightclothes on until I am about to get into bed. I can’t understand people who wear them outside the house, though loungewear is a different matter.

I was at the local M5 services meeting my daughter a few weeks ago, and a family of 6 (from baby in arm's to 30s) were travelling wearing matching onesies and slippers...

My daughter suggested that they wouldn't reach home till bedtime so we're travelling prepared

I’m a dog owner and I’m curious about people who go to the trouble of picking up their dogs poo only to hang it on a tree or leave it on somebody’s wall instead of taking it home with them and put it in their own bin . It’s not like they arnt going there anyway ?

My daughter had MS and was confined to a wheelchair. It was such a struggle for her to get dressed that she spent most of her time in her jammies. The MS nurses wanted her to make the effort to dress in the morning to inject some "normality" into her life but she continued to resist them. When she died and we were asked what she should be dressed in, there was no hesitation, her favourite jammies.

The other day I saw a young woman walking through town in her pyjamas and dressing gown. I just wondered where her pride was, or was she a patient from a hospital?

welbeck

Growing0ldDisgracefully

I wouldn't go out in my nightwear, as I don't wear anything to bed, and it would need ironing first.

is that some kind of SMBD practice ?
ironing a naked person ?

I could do with ironing my neck!

Not something I could/would do as I sleep in the buff! However, what I find unpleasant are overweight men with man boobs and belly hanging over trousers showing the builder's bum, going without a top, particularly in food stores. Most unhygienic - ugh!!

Growing0ldDisgracefully

I wouldn't go out in my nightwear, as I don't wear anything to bed, and it would need ironing first.

is that some kind of SMBD practice ?
ironing a naked person ?

To those who are harking back to how things were in the 50s: Do you not remember that then you were lucky if you got 1 bath and 1 hair wash a week? Water was heated by a back boiler on the coal fire and there was never enough for everyone to have a bath, wash their hair or do laundry on the same day, never mind household chores e.g washing kitchen floor.
My mother was a hairdresser back then. Her regular customers had a shampoo and set once a week and did nothing to their hair in between visits. I worked in a Bank from 1962 and can recall that all the male staff frankly stank of old sweat because they mainly had only 1 suit for work and sending it to the dry cleaners took 3 days* - impossible when we worked a 5.5 day week. The female staff were better because we wore skirt, blouse and horrible overalls, all of which could be washed and dried overnight.

Once my DH contracted dementia and I became his 24 hour carer, I was unable to have a daily shower and hair wash -had to wait until a DD came to visit and supervise Dad while I showered. All you who criticise have no idea of the home circumstances of those you pillory And rose coloured memories of the 50s.

* The same was true of many of the male teachers at school.

Gave up...

My granddaughter changes into her PJs almost as soon as she gets in from college, as long as she's not goi gout again. If she then wants chocolate or extra milk or anything else she will go to a supermarket or a garage in her PJs. As I refuse to go out that late for shopping. She has been known to go elsewhere in PJs but not so much lately. She so has "lounge suits that can look like PJs but aren't.

Don't you just hate auto correct? I dye my hair....

My grandmother (well ahead of her time) always maintained that, " Too much washing is bad for the skin!" It's also bad for the environment and the bank balance. However, if you sleep next to a man, he definitely, and you, probably, need a quick shower in the morning. That, surely, is when you get dressed?

Unless we are saints, we all judge others, even though we might not admit it. It's human nature, surely? I do it. ?

My mother would have had an opinion and an uncomplimentary name for a woman who shopped while wearing pyjamas and slippers, but she enjoyed bandying sayings like, 'red hat, no draws' and criticising various clothing and make-up choices e.g. large bottomed ladies in tight trousers were likened to 'two boys fighting in a sack' and those whose eyes were outlined in black, 'like two burnt holes in a blanket', and they were all 'common as muck'. She was happy to come out with these comments in a loud voice, causing any companions to wish for the ground to open and swallow them up! She also had opinions about the likely morals, or lack of them, of women who dyed their hair and/or had pierced ears! I She my hair but have up on earrings decades ago. Mum made an exception for the Queen being obliged to wear earrings.

And don’t get me started on men who walk around the streets or in shops with their shirts off. I don’t want to look at a half dressed man over the cereals in the supermarket.

I presume that you mean slippers !

One thing I have noticed in people, especially those younger is the inability to speak at a normal volume

Not just the young - we were seated near to three older women in a cafe a few days ago and had to leave to get away from all the cackling. Nice that they were happy but oh lord! the noise. And the extra loud phones constantly going off that they insisted on yelling into. I did wonder if they were perhaps all a little deaf but at one point they were obviously relaying a juicy bit of gossip as they all leaned in and whispered - I did consider asking them to speak up a bit so we could all hear that too.

mistymitts: I have to agree - topless anyone is not for public consumption in my book.

Regarding women in pjs the only words to describe them are slovenly and slattern and yes I judge them! There must be standards in society

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