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Redhead56 Tue 08-Feb-22 17:02:33

I wonder how women of all ages can actually walk around shops in pyjamas and rollers. But some how they manage to bother putting their false eyelashes on.
Is there some thing that you are curious about when observing other people?

HazelEyes Wed 09-Feb-22 20:07:58

I've never seen anyone shopping in their pjs.

Pammie1 Wed 09-Feb-22 20:11:18

AmberSpyglass

It’s definitely a Liverpool thing, Redhead!

I lived in Liverpool for 47 years - never saw people shopping in their PJ’s. Where we live now, our local supermarkets have prominently displayed signage banning anyone in nightwear from entering the store. Evidently not just a Liverpool thing.

GreyKnitter Wed 09-Feb-22 20:25:58

I was brought up to believe that pyjama or nightdresses when I was a child were to be worn in bed and not for people outside the family to see you in. A bit like your undies! I often put my pjs on after my bath mid evening and wear them to watch tv but if I’m not up and dressed in the morning I do worry that someone might come to the door and see me in my bedclothes. I’d never go out of the house without wearing day clothes - unless it was a dire emergency. I guess we all have different views on things but I hate to see people not dressed when they out - it shows a lack of respect to others.

AlisonKF Wed 09-Feb-22 21:40:43

Maybe these reviled women actually sleep in tee shirts and track suit bottoms so who can know what pyjamas are theses days? The rollers bit sounds unconvincing as nobody has slept in rollers since I was young in the fifties and sixties. Plenty of men get straight out of bed and do nothing more than struggle into a pair of jeans before sallying forth.

MissAdventure Wed 09-Feb-22 21:43:14

Yep.
Men start work at 8, so they get up at a quarter to.

Battersea1971 Wed 09-Feb-22 23:10:55

Well I dont know where you live but ive never seen anyone shopping in their pyjamas and rollers. I can understand rollers if they are going out that night, but are you sure they are not trackies and tops. I remember my brother popping in unexpectedly one day and I was in loose patterned trousers and t shirt, and he thought they were my pjs.

hollysteers Thu 10-Feb-22 01:09:50

Maybe the false eyelashes are extensions which last a few weeks, so no extra trouble taken.
It hurts my eyes to see people wearing baseball caps the wrong way round and as far as I’m concerned, bedroom slippers are solely for the bedroom, house shoes the rest of the time, then outdoor shoes or boots.
I’m also intrigued how quickly so many women hurtle themselves into old age; a sea of white short hair “snowcaps”, specs and outfits of varying degrees of beige. Surely life has more to offer than that?

Mummer Thu 10-Feb-22 09:28:30

My curiosity runs to whether they have first dropped the jamms, donned bra and kex, then put jamms back on?! OR are they are going commando under the jamms?! Answers on a postcard?? option #2 sounds a bit of a gamble!!

Mummer Thu 10-Feb-22 09:34:31

hollysteers

Maybe the false eyelashes are extensions which last a few weeks, so no extra trouble taken.
It hurts my eyes to see people wearing baseball caps the wrong way round and as far as I’m concerned, bedroom slippers are solely for the bedroom, house shoes the rest of the time, then outdoor shoes or boots.
I’m also intrigued how quickly so many women hurtle themselves into old age; a sea of white short hair “snowcaps”, specs and outfits of varying degrees of beige. Surely life has more to offer than that?

I agree with exceptions, the white hair is purely practical I've just given up trying to maintain my short Auburn hair after several phases over last 5 years of going au naturel/dyeing! It's a losing battle and very expensive even with non salon colour, but there NO excuse for badly groomed thatch either, if ONE HAS to 'go white' one can at the very least have a demon style and for heaven's sake keep plastering on the warpaint! Nowt more ageing than grey hair/brows/complexion, not a coordination that suits ANYONE ?
Beige can look good but it has to be stylish and voluminous Cashmere at least in winter, linen/silk in spring/summer.and setoff with black/navy.........

Pepper59 Thu 10-Feb-22 09:54:03

I think natural coloured hair is less aging , than some folks who dye their hair far to dark in a bid to look young. All it does is accentuate the wrinkles. Trying to look 20 when you are 60 etc, what's the point? You are still going to look 60.

ShazzaKanazza Thu 10-Feb-22 09:57:25

When my DS was in the last year of primary school I’d often drive him to school in my PJs and drop him off until the time I broke down and had to walk home in them. I was mortified. I got a few amused looks but it taught me a lesson.

suzikyoo Thu 10-Feb-22 11:39:01

When shopping in Frankfurt a couple of years ago, a portly man with briefcase walked past us, stark naked, tackle swinging, without a care. No-one took any notice and the friend I was staying with told me it was not uncommon. Cooler than PJ's and slippers, I suppose!

Aldom Thu 10-Feb-22 11:53:55

OMG Suzikyoo that's incredible grin. But, I used to regularly see a lady in Oxford who wore a skimpy bikini, not much of it at the back. This was winter and summer. The lady is still about, but I think perhaps she has had treatment, perhaps mental health issues. She's now fully clothed. I see a young man in my small town near Oxford, who except for in extremely cold weather, walks about bare foot.