I am curious about people's behaviour.

I did spot someone pop to the shop in dressing gown and slippers walking back home, it made me laugh, I really wouldn’t do it, sorry ladies it’s a yuk from me!

People can discuss whatever they want to, no one is forced to join in.
I think it’s lazy to go out in pjs (not counting ill people or people in labour who are going into hospital.) It’s just as comfortable to wear a sweatshirt and joggers, no need to dress up to drop the children off or go to the supermarket.

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

Pantglas2

I’m intrigued with the pyjamas thing I’ve read/heard about but not actually seen with my own eyes.

Do they get out of bed and leave the house without showering? Or do they hop into the shower after discarding last night’s attire and pop clean ones on for the shopping or school run?

It probably ly varies. I ha e seen people in fresh looking pjs, dressing gown and slippers bit a few weeks ago I was at a petrol station, it was about 3.15pm as I'd just collected ds. Woman strolled into the shop with bed hair, along with pjs and dressing gown that had not seen the inside of a washing machine for some considerable time. Yuk.

From a Previous poster, I wish I had had the courage to take a child who refused to get dressed to school in their pjs. I bet that was the last time the child tried that one. Well done Mum, but of course it’s not the teacher’s responsibility to get the child dressed. Hope that she saw the life lesson for the child and was willing. I don’t agree with humiliating a child but on occasion, under pressure, that would have worked for me. Sometimes there are not enough minutes in the morning to try to reason with a stubborn child.

Nordstat. You are able to shower and dress yourself so 9am at home, is no problem for you to have an appointment.
Most people who have visiting hairdressers are unable to dress and shower without help. Most carers have children and see them off to school before starting work.
So it’s not surprising that many clients for a home visiting hair dresser are not dressed for a 9am appointment.

I'm wearing a housecoat as we speak!
It was my mums.

Does anyone remember Hilda Ogden from Coronation Street? She always was out and about with her hair in curlers under a headscarf, and usually wearing a ‘housecoat’. Do they still exist?
Maybe a housecoat over PJs would calm people distaste?
I am one of those people who does not wear shoes in the house, so going out in slippers would not work for me.

Elizabeth27

I assume that people out in pyjamas do not care what others think, rightly so.

I am more curious as to why people are indoors not planning on seeing anyone but have full makeup and are dressed as if going somewhere special. I know it is none of my business, I am not judging, just curious.

I am not dressed up to the nines but at present I have a really bad kidney infection and, while I am recovering, I still have no energy. I find getting dressed; at present an Aran jumper and trousers plus slippers, and putting on a little lipstick makes me feel better and less of an invalid, especially as my skin, very fair at the best of times, has taken on a ghostly pallor. I might be spending the day downstairs in a chair but I feel more human than if I were in bed in night clothes.

I have gone out in my PJs but I put a long coat on top and stayed in the car, dropping off at school. I would feel very uncomfortable shopping in PJs and slippers but so what if it’s what some people do, maybe they are having a duvet day and ran out of milk or something. It takes all sorts, I have seen some strange outfits, what really gets me started is when the hot weather comes, and the male species think that walking around town, or in shops is ok without a top on, now that’s a big NO from me.

AmberSpyglass

I love seeing women doing their shopping with their hair in rollers as part of their getting ready to go out routine. It’s this deeply Northern working class glamour - I only wish I had long enough hair to get away with it!

If you look at old film from the forties and fifties you’ll see that many women who worked in the factories had their curlers under a headscarf all day. They then removed them before going out for the evening.

Because it was implied that people wearing pjs don't feed their children.
Touche.

MissAdventure

Do those of you who get dressed and put on make up have time, or were your children neglected?

I was always showered, dressed and made up first thing in the morning. Still am, even though I’m retired and often don’t leave the house. And no, my children weren’t neglected. They too were showered, dressed and breakfasted before leaving for school. You don’t have to be a slob to have time to look after your children which is what you’re implying.

Petera

Esspee

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

I fell the same way about trainers...

'feel' obviously

Esspee

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

I fell the same way about trainers...

I don’t understand going out in slippers because surely one of the ideas of having slippers is so that you don’t wear dirty shoes indoors. If you take your slippers outside, that element is gone?

Oh dear Esspee that's a bit harsh! Frankly I couldn't care less as what people wear is none of my business, I personally wouldn't go out, or even spend the day indoors in pyjamas as I would definitely feel slovenly and , as my parents would have said, be slopping about! But that's up to me, other people? well, that's up to them.

It’s seems as if this thread has given some ladies a touch of the vapours: smelling salts anyone ?
I bet those pearls have taken a bit of a bashing.

i hate shopping anyway and just get on with what I have to do, regardless of other peoples dress wise . I actually expect I am seen as quite a weirdo myself by the people in the supermarket as I am sublime to ridiculous in a way. I hav e been a singer all my life and have been in opera , sung in churches and all sorts of venues. So , when there is a rehearsal close to the concert time we will rehearse in the actual venue, where part of the efforts involve sorting out where different parts of the choir will sit, and the effect of the building on the sound, so if you are stood up in the choir stalls it will be very different or if you are singing a solo part you may have to stand in the pulpit etc. So the conductor will firstly be checking the sound effects and may decide to move parts round to accommodate to the best sound effects he wants. In the meantime the person involved in all the seating plan will have been putting chairs out or working out who sits where, and after much effort will feel they have managed to sort it out and will have been placing chairs etc with speciffic names or parts labelled so you know where to go. the change in the sound means the conductor now wants people moved about. The seating person is now tearing their hair out trying to place some tenors so they are not hidden by immovable columns etc. So all this is going on and then the actual rehearsal itself and like most places there is little or no heating until the actual concert. Consequently I may get to the supermarket muffled in large heavy jumper , boots etc and carry on shopping. The next time they see me is in the gap between the dress rehearsal and the performance. so now may be dressed in black skirt , white blouse and silk stole etc , hair done and make up on. If I call in again after the perfomance on my way home, the hair and make up still looking good but now skirt swapped for easy pull on trousers to get the shopping. Once I was singing in a G and S in aid of Cancer research and had all the kimono stuff etc on. Have no idea what other shoppers thought of me!! Well probably gave them something to laugh at on their tea break. I had a friend who had her own cafe and her staff knew people by the food they chose, so the regulars who always had cheese on toast or whatever they would be getting it ready as soon as they saw them coming in. My friend and I used to meat occasionaly in a Brewers fayre when they had a great offer of 2 fror the price of 1 or something like that so we had a piece of fish and vegetables and 1 small portion of chips between us both but the maing thing was we would ask form more lemon , not just one atingy piece , so we were the lemon ladies!! I have moved now so who knows they might wonder where we have gone and wonder what happened to the lemon ladies? I too like people watching but wouldnt go out in my pajamas, probably an eage thing. I did once get in line in long black skirt etc to process down in a cathedral and suddenly realized that I still had my very scruffy driving shoes on and my black patent heels were still in the car and no time to get them. Had to slightly bend my knees as I walked along to make my skirt cover the shoes (quite hard to do!)

Never seen it. I don't wear PJs because wedgies.

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

Chestnut

MerylStreep

Nortsat
Why yuk Most people are clean, their beds are clean and I assume their Pyjamas are clean.
You might be a bit sniffy about the look, but it hardly warrens a yuk

What on earth makes you think everyone is so clean? The ones in pyjamas are most likely the one who change their sheets monthly and haven't showered recently. If they were decent people they would be up and dressed. I can't begin to imagine what the folk of the 1950s would think of anyone going out in their nightwear! Everyone dressed so properly and tidily then, men wore suits and ladies dresses or jackets & skirts with stockings. They made the effort to look presentable even if they had no money.

A lot of things have changed since the fifties. There was racism, sexism and homophobia with nobody called out on it, in fact being gay was illegal back then as I am sure you know. Appearances were important because there was so much judgment. But that is not what the OP was asking about. She was talking about the mindset of someone who wears their jammies but insists on putting false lashes on, which I find quite odd but it’s up to them isn’t it?

EkwaNimitee

I’d be arrested if I went out in my nightwear

Ah, me too. I've never understood it (please note - this is just a comment, not a crticism of those who wear it)

I can’t tell the difference between nightwear and daywear and don’t suppose it matters really. They are just clothes.
I am fascinated by people and love that we’re all so different. Perhaps judging others by appearance is a natural instinct to keep ourselves safe in tribal days.
Perhaps we still are tribal ?

My slippers are made of leather and I often look down and find I have forgotten to change into shoes. Does this count? I wear nighties so would never go out in my sleepwear. I have never seen anyone in their jammies but would think they were rather lazy and lacking in self esteem if I did.