I am curious about people's behaviour.

Oh dearie me @Chestnut how very judgemental Being a dec my human being has NOTHING to do with what they wear No matter how you dress you are narrow minded and judgemental

Decent human being my post should say

A friend and I were walking the dog by a local canal when we met a lady strolling along in pjs, dressing gown and slippers. We said 'Hi', she was friendly and seemed 'normal' apart from the attire... No idea where that comes from. America, maybe?

The two supermarkets local to us have banned people in nightwear from the store. Not sure how it could be enforced if it came to it though.

Yes - pyjamas and false eye lashes.

Do they sleep in full makeup and false eye lashes. Or, do they have time to do makeup and eyelashes and just not enough time to get dressed?

I wonder if they have time to give their children breakfast?

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

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!

Thankfully the fad of going shopping in nightwear hasn't reached Denmark yet, and it seems that track suits are out of fashion too.

However, we can still compete in the slovenliness line. My husband's chiropractor told him how much she appreciates that he has clearly always showered and put on a fresh pair of boxer shorts before turning up for an appointment.

She said she was innudated with clients who were frankly sweaty and dirty.

And as if that was not bad enough, a nurse in the gynae dept. thanked me for having washed properly prior to an appointment!

I won't even go to the door without make-up, hair done, and fully dressed. I grew up with my late Mum always making a huge effort - stilettos, hat and coat to go to town, and my Grannies were the same.

Where we notice the decline in dressing most is at the theatre - I love to be dressed for various occasions, and find it sad when the majority of the audience are in anoraks etc, etc.

Tasteless, shows no class whatsoever

Not the same thing I know but it reminded me .. once , when I was still teaching, I had a child turn up in their pjs . The mother brought him in and gave me his clothes saying that he refused to get dressed . Of course , I just gave him the clothes and told him to get dressed, which he did , immediately. ?

I can remember, when I lived in Nevada USA in the early 80s, seeing women, with hair in rollers and dressing gowns, at the gambling machines at 10 o'clock in the morning. This was not just quarters they were playing with either. Silver dollars were going in one after the other.

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.

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 ?

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)

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?

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

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

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!)

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.

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.

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?

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...

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