Pj wearers taking children to school,

Mind you, I'd probably say "Yes, miss, thank you, miss"
And do as I was told.

I would very strongly object to being told what I should not wear by a headmistress.

The joy of being an adult is indulging in harmless behaviour, just because you can.

The clue is whether these mums still have pjs on when picking up their offspring. I don’t think it sets a good example for children. At my school , our head had a quiet word about this with some parents. It doesn’t look good.

Trust me, I couldn't.

You could write The Modern Guide to Fashion Does and Don’ts, MissA so everyone could be kept on the straight and narrow.

Where my son lives, near Swansea, this is quite a common phenomenon. I think it looks awful. As bad as wearing a coat and flip flops.

I bought myself some new pyjamas at the weekend. My husband saw them and said, "Are you wearing those to work?" not realising what they were.

This practice was banned by Tesco in Camborne some years ago. We were on holiday there. There was a sign on the door forbidding entry to anyone wearing pyjamas. I also saw people in Liverpool doing this and going around town in their hair curlers.

With a new baby and no one to help get 2 elder kids to school after being up all night I did put big coat on over pajamas to get kids to school on time, back in those days, over 30 years ago, when husband was milking cows and not done in time to help me get 4 Yr old and 6 Yr old ready for school while I grappled with the new baby..

Pyjamas and "Loungewear" seem interchangeable. Patterned trousers are daywear now in summer anyway. Socks, trainers and a jacket added does not look as if you got straight out of bed. What would distress me is going out without make up !

I have to admit that I have been out in my pjs! I was in New York and the fire alarm went off in the early hours! I had pulled jeans and a jumper over the top though. After waiting outside for ages went in Pret for breakfast as soon as they opened! Didn't feel decent though!

I must remember to take a notebook next time I'm out, so I can check out bra, washed or unwashed, knickers, the smell of half a pint of sweat or not, and all the other vital info.

Were they wearing PJs or Onsies? If PJs I can't figure how anyone can go walking, shopping in them especually in cold weather. Don't know about others' habits but wearing outside would surely mean washing everytime. Onsies are usually worn over some kind of light clothing. Why bother dressing the children when adults are out and about in PJs?

My only concern is the effect on the children.

If they are stigmatised because their parents are wearing nightwear, then I'm against it. If other children are the ones stigmatising those whose parents do this, then it's not good.

From my own personal POV I don't like mixing with smelly people (who does), but who's to say they haven't showered and put on clean PJs hoping to hop back in bed when the kids are safely in school?

... and some people do lead haphazard lives and find it difficult to cope. I've every sympathy for them and if they manage to get the kids to the school, well, at least they're making the effort...

That's the trouble with humans.

They smell so... human.

MissAdventure

Of course, if you have a partner, that's a pint of sweat you're lying in... 7 pints a week of sweat.

And that takes us back to the old, of discussed story of should you shower off the day’s dirt before bed or wipe it off on the covers and shower in the morning- or less often than that now to save water and fuel.

Night wear is a bit like "the latest iphone" I think.

Everyone is an expert at sporting it, but nobody can tell you how, or what, exactly, they look like.

It's lower class common....
The only people I've seen in nightwear first things in the morning have been wives dropping their besuited and bebriefcased professional husbands off at the station, so no need to pay for parking
I'm sure that they would have been delighted to hear that judgement

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rowyn Just exactly how do you know what is or is not night attire?
At the beginning of summer I bought some M&S summer trousers and have worn them regularly

Precisely my point to the 3 quite different photos.

Agree

This is one of the funniest threads I have read. I’m amazed at what so many people find offensive.

Look at it another way, Mum would have liked to stay in her nice warm bed, but instead she has got up, had a coffee, hopefully fed the kids and got them ready for school because school is important. It’s a possible scenario and a good message.

Living where I do we worry about the dealers at the school gates, the whiff of weed in the air and the teenagers carrying blades and robbing younger kids of their dinner money and phones, not what parents are wearing.

I do wonder where a lot of Gransnet members live and no, even where I live I have only rarely seen mums in nightwear though our school serves a sink housing estate two minutes from the gates.

I did once get my four to school, after a battle with the autistic beauty who as fast as I put her shoes and socks on had whipped them off again multiple times, stepping out of the car to find I had slippers on my feet. No-one gave me the impression that they were shocked or judging me.

MissAdventure

Yes, that too.
Lots and lots of reasons, none of which any of us can know just by glancing at a stranger.

I think it's low class to do that.

I think I might organise a GNetters meet up and turn up in my PJs

I suppose using 'nightwear' as an extra layer or using day cloths by night is nothing new- more a change in customs.
I read children used to sleep in their school coats to keep warm on winter nights. In the devastating east coast floods (1953?) people had their coats upstairs with them- because they used them to keep warm overnight so were able to wear them awaiting rescue from upstairs windows and rooves.
I remember using my coat over the bed as an extra layer at night in the days before central heating. A bit different to wearing nightwear as day wear.

Doodledog I too have a velvety pullover and trouser set from M+S from a few years ago- bought from the nightwear department, but never used as nightwear. Very cosy in the winter. They were probably meant to wear over PJs instead of a dressing gown as they are quite thick. I still use the top half ( with a warm cowl neck) on cold draughty evenings.

Not indecent ….just slovenly and very lazy…. and I suspect an embarrassment to the kids with them.