I am curious about people's behaviour.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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!

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

Welcome to Gransnet Hyacinth Bucket

Speechless.

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

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.

I presume that you mean slippers !

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.

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.

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

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.

Gave up...

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.

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 ?

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!!