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Do mums really drop their kids to school then go and do the shopping all whilst wearing their bedclothes??  Surely if they wanted ease and comfort they could stick on a pair of joggers and trainers at least??!!

I remember just after i had Freddie castrated and he would only wee while out for a walk. Late one evening i took him for a quick walk to the end of the road and back while wearing a coat over my jammies - who did i bump into??? One of the kids from the school i work at - he looked at me like i was from another planet :-) :-)  i could just about justify my reasons for wearing that attire on that occasion but to go out for a whole morning in public with PJ's on??No thank you!!!!!

My mum occasionally took my brother and I to school in her nightware LOL and that was quite a few years ago now.

Here, Here, Lokis Mum,

Very glad that Tesco's have made a stand about this, well done Tesco's. :-) I personally have not seen it happening, but have seen mum's turning up for the school run sat in the car in PJ's, which I've never understood.

Things have got lapse enough as it is, walking around in PJ's whilst shopping is just showing this country to be downright lazy and giving out the wrong impression.

It's sad watching things slide, can you imagine that happening in the 50's and 60's once upon a time we used to dress up without a hair out of place to go and do our shopping, (many of us still do :-) ) we had pride in our appearance, now anything goes. 

Glad someones said NO! loud and clear, I still want my country to have some pride.

Yes agree with Tesco's for once.  It had to be in South Wales - what a let down.  I wouldn't be seen in my PJ's shopping - which isn't to say that since stopping the papers (which would arrive about lunchtime some days) I have been known to pull jumper and trousers OVER my PJs recently and go down to buy the papers to come home to jump back into bed with a cuppa!  However no-one (but you lot) knows that I had them on!  As for wearing my slippers outside - well what is the point of having slippers if you are going to wear them outside?!

Awww NO!

Does this mean I have to stop gong to Asda in my baby dolls?

the only time I have worn night clothes in public under my coat was to go to the showers on a Caravan site!

Where we have our caravan on a friends land I will go outside to see to the dogs in the morning in nigh-clothes with coat and wellies on, but in a public street or shop, for goodness sake.

And yes I was lone parent with two tots to get off to school, but I dressed myself and then them.

I came on here just to post about the Pj's ..... OP beat me to it!

Curious about mini skirts and tshirts showing the belly and boobs or jeans showing builders bum though ;-)

> Curious about mini skirts and tshirts showing the belly and boobs or jeans showing builders bum though

Ugh, yuk yuk yuk. Fnd that really offensive to look at? Do they really think they look attractive dresses like that???

I've seen notices in the summer in Tescos/Asda/Sainsburys, asking customers to "cover up" - requesting men to put on tee-shirt and women not to wear something over a bikini top.

It quite puts me off my shopping when I see a hairy man hanging over the butter & cheese!!!

I dont know, its very popular over here to wear PJs out to places.  There isnt a day that goes by that you dont see a few people in PJs at the local store.  I must admit, I have done it too, when I go to the corner store, and dont want to change when I know when I get home in two minutes, I am changing back into my PJs.  Just wear a longer coat, and go.  Canadians, EH.  LOL

>Very glad that Tesco's have made a stand about this, well done Tesco's.

Couldn't agree more - people don't (I sincerely hope!) go out in just bra and knickers, so nightclothes are wrong too. Time and a place for everything, and nightclothes are for wearing at bedtime, or during the day if you're ill and having to sleep a lot. Otherwise it's proper clothes. "Wearing pyjamas in the daytime" is a euphemism for old-age dementia.

Oooh interesting Crespin.  Apparently it is quite popular over here too, though I've yet to witness such outrageous behaviour!
I couldn't even answer the front door in my pj's - I'd feel quite strange about that! lol

I must add, the PJs I would ever think about going out in, are not anything "risque", they are flannel sets, not babydolls (dont want to scare the neighbourhood!)

I wouldn't want to see anyone out in public in these which are hardly risqué!

My old Nan hung the washing out with her hat on! a pinney but her hat.

I think pj's should remain in the bedroom I let my dogs out in my tarten trousers (lounge ones) but as I never wear pj's Id be in real trouble!!

I have never been so weary I could not find a pair of trousers and a jumper!!

My great-aunts were the same - never went out of doors for any reason without a hat on.

> It quite puts me off my shopping when I see a hairy man hanging over the butter & cheese!!!

  quite agree seeing hairy men hanging over anything puts me off ;)

Personally I would never go out in public in PJ's, I am bad enough if I get caught by the neighbour hanging the washing out before I have got dressed. (do we have a blushing Smiley).

I was listening to a piece on the radio about this today and fell around laughing at the interview with the girl who was upset at being asked to leave the store becasue she was in her PJs "because she put on her best ones to go out in"  The mind boggles - is she has the time to change inot  best PJs surely she could have put on jeans and a hoody or similar?  Someone else on the programme brought up the point are they all going out without underwear on? If not surely they take PJs off to put undies on, so why not put on clothes!  And why the slippers!  Surely they can slip on a pair of shoes, slippers are mostly competley unsuited to outdoors wear, smooth, thin soles.  After all, how long does it take to get dressed - 2 minutes to slip out of PJs and into jeans or sweat pants and a top.

> It quite puts me off my shopping when I see a hairy man hanging over the butter & cheese!!!

LOL!

Don't you remember the folks who used to pop out with their hair in curlers?  Just pop a headscarf on over the top.  I can remember my mother having 40 fits in church once because when she sat down and her coat parted to reveal......... her apron!  Shock horror!  She had been in such a rush she had forgotten to take it off. 

ceejay, supposedly that's the fashion at the moment of going out with curlers in your hair, I wouldn't be seen dead like that either LOL>

Is it!!!!  Well well!  I gave up on curlers years ago - had those awful Carmen heated ones, then a perm - now I am lucky if I get a chance to go to the hairdressers for a cut. 

i don't really mind people shopping in their pj's, what irritated me in this article was how the woman said that it's tough getting 3 children to school as a single mum! Well i'm sorry but I have 4 children and my husband leaves for work at half six so i have to get all of them to school alone but i still manage to get up dressed,make up on, dishes washed and downstairs hoovered before the 8:30 school run and in the summer a load of washing is hung on the line too! Maybe she should try getting up before 8:20am! :)

> i don't really mind people shopping in their pj's, what irritated me in this article was how the woman said that it's tough getting 3 children to school as a single mum! Well i'm sorry but I have 4 children and my husband leaves for work at half six so i have to get all of them to school alone but i still manage to get up dressed,make up on, dishes washed and downstairs hoovered before the 8:30 school run and in the summer a load of washing is hung on the line too! Maybe she should try getting up before 8:20am! :-) <IMG class=qButton title="Quote selected text" alt="Quote selected text" src="/images/mi_quote.gif" width=20 height=10>

Exactly!   When I had 3 little ones, I would have to be out the door with them at 8.20, in order that the tw "biggies" (7 & 5) caught the school bus, and myself and "littley"  (plus "bun in oven") were on our bus to go the 10 miles to college.   I would be in full warpaint with Farah Fawcett Major hair ,  would have made packed lunches for 5 of us ....any day OH was off work and wanted to help - I'd tell him to stay out of the way - I'd sweat bottles of ink to get us all out on time - but I did it!

But of course, no TV or computer in the mornings then ....just Terry Wogan!!!

> i don't really mind people shopping in their pj's  etc

Well said.  I had 2 children but I had to get myself to work as well - and walk the dog!

> Well said.&nbsp; I had 2 children but I had to get myself to work as well - and walk the dog!

You see OH does the dogs in the morning but funnily enough i'd rather sort all the kids and the house work in an hour and a half than go out with 3 dogs in the recent weather we've been having! :)
Reckon he drew the short straw.

There are a lot of lounge pants which look like PJ bottoms which i wear and maybe some people think they are PJ bottoms, i wear a huge sweater over the top and walk the dogs in that.
I like being comfy and i don't dress for anyone else.
It is a real American and now i've read this post Canadian thing to do. I guess shopping in a supermarket with proper PJ's on and a sweater is not causing any real alarm to anyone.. Its the excess of skin which i have trouble with which some people flaunt and really shouldn't as someone has mentioned about stomachs and hair.. Yuck..

> Maybe she should try getting up before 8:20am! :-)

:-)  :-)  :-)  Too right!

I once dropped off my Toy Poodle to be clipped, and saw a car pull up, and a woman get out with her Yorkshire Terrier.  She was wearing her PJ's.  When I collected my bitch, I asked the groomer about it.  She said, oh she always gets up late!!!

And Australian suejaw!! lol

I suppose the PJs which look like  sweat pants and ops, worn with UGG type boots or trainers, well, who is to know if they are PJs, but the obviously bedroom wear, pink brushed cotton type thing, worn with fluffly mules and a dressing gown?  I can understand throwing a coat and boots on over PJs to perhaps have to drop the kids off at school if you have slept in, or popping out for the papers on a Sunday morning, but to do a full supermarket shop in what you have been to bed in?  I hate leaving the house without having had a shower first, certainly would not consider doing so without undies on, and th thought of people floating around the supermarket in what they have slept in is a bit unnerving, as is the thougth that they then go home and go to bed in clothes which have been out and about!  But it takes all types to make a world.  Maybe this thinking is double strange to us folk with animals who get up in the wee small hours to not only dress ourselves respectably for a show, but get the animals ready too! 

Just had a flashback, and remember an incident years and years ago whne I nipped into the stables to do haynets and water buckets very early before a show, still in nightwear and slippers (stables at home) and took a toe nail off by opening the door over foot!  Maybe this is so deeply ingrained in my mind, as it was VERY PAINFUL that I am unfailry against it :)

>but to do a full supermarket shop in what you have been to bed in? 

From what I read some people even change into clean pyjamas to go out! Where's the sense in that? Why not just get dressed?

Here's one example who was asked to leave the store.

That's the one that there is all the fuss about - she changed into her best PJs for the photo shoot!

> [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/gill-hornby/7105125/Tesco-and-nightwear-A-wake-up-call-for-the-jim-jam-masses.html" rel=nofollow]Here's one example[/url] who was asked to leave the store.

I couldn't go shopping in my PJ's, but I really can't see the problem with the PJ's the woman in the link is wearing. I used to have black & white striped trousers that look just liker her bottoms and the top she is wearing is no different then the hoards of summer tops about.
I see a lot more visually offensive attire than a pair of comfy, PJs!

>but I really can't see the problem with the PJ's the woman in the link is wearing.

The slippers are a dead giveaway that they're not proper trousers!

lol, it says she went in for a packet of fags ..... so why the trolly ?!?!?!?!?

Perhaps she's a heavy smoker?!! :-D :-D

A tesco in Liverpool has banned PJ wearing shoppers and slippers according to our local radio station ...I hope they add the extra large curler wearers to the list !!!!<BG>

My mum told me that when she was a baby, she had a fit and swallowed her tongue, her mum threw her to her dad, who threw her back, so Nan screamed at him to go and get help, and he spend the next few minutes running around franticly trying to find his hat. He was the same, you didn't leave the house without a hat, no matter what the emergency.

> A tesco in Liverpool has banned PJ wearing shoppers

There has been a bit of an uproar about Tesco banning them as in a previous advert of theirs, Martin Cloons was seen sporting a pair of jim jams whilst buying milk! Can not remember where I saw it either news on tv or newspapers but the complaint was Tesco are banning what they advertise themselves, people shopping in their pj's. Lol funny world :-D

> but I really can't see the problem with the PJ's the woman in the link is wearing

I can - how can she go out dressed like that in THIS weather!  I have coat, hat, gloves etc   BRRRRRR!  ;-)

.... but she has pretty ones with bears and penguins on them! I heard her getting interviewed on Radio 2 or 4 and was gobsmacked when she said she didn't have time to go home and get changed AFTER she took the kids to school! Hmmm - thought the idea was you got washed and dressed BEFORE you stepped out the door - very slovenly to do otherwise, unless you are not appearing in public (yes I have hung the washing in nightie and dressing gown but no one sees me (I hope) ! )
My daughter says its a bit of a trend at her Uni at the moment - PJ's and Uggs - they call them the Yah's! :-D They have to be mad - Edinburgh is freezing in mid summer never mind January!

This lady in the picture may not have time to get dressed but she was wearing her large earrings,does she sleep in them I wonder,because it sometimes takes me longer to locate the holes in my lobes than it does to get all my glad rags on .Why not save herself even more time and take the kids to school in their pjs,,where do you draw the line?Uncombed hair would save a bit more time,and who can see if you have washed or not so why bother.I grew up in a world where we drank from cups which all had saucers,ironed the tea towels and tablecloths.wore leather shoes that had to be polished every day , and mum scrubbed the front doorstep,Thank goodness for dish washers and trainers,but how lazy can we get in this day and age.Tesco get my vote. 

> ironed the tea towels

I still iron tea towels and tablecloths - and knickers! I draw the line at socks and sheets !! Cups with saucers are for special occasions only though! :-D :-D

> I grew up in a world where we drank from cups which all had saucers,ironed the tea towels and tablecloths.wore leather shoes that had to be polished every day , and mum scrubbed the front doorstep,

I've never scrubbed a doorstep :o) - but I used to have a line full of brilliantly clean nappies (boil washed) out on the line every morning before 9.30 am!   I did draw the line at ironing the nappies though - but some friends did!

> I can - how can she go out dressed like that in THIS weather!&nbsp; I have coat, hat, gloves etc&nbsp;&nbsp; BRRRRRR!&nbsp; ;-)

LOL, yes definately too cold to be wearing PJ's, but I have seen people in shorts and even a few women in mini skirts and vest tops

She wasn't barred for being dressed too coldly though, she was barred for wearing PJ's (stripey trousers, a tee shirt and slippers that look much like my mums sandals). The store has obviously had complaints from other shoppers about people wearing PJ's.
What I find sad is that people are spending too much time worrying about what others are wearing to the point of actually complaining to the shop about it.

I wouldn't wear my PJ's shopping and do smarten my self up to nip to the shops (I wear scruffy clothes around the house due to the amount of slobber I end up wearing!), but who really cares what ohter people are wearing??
I find it saddening that people are complaining about others dress sense. Does it matter if a person wants to shop in thier PJs (or any other clothes that look like Pj's?). I also find it saddening that PJ wearing shoppers are being judged as lacking in hygene - there is every possibility they are having a wash before putting on clean Pj's to go out in (as it appears to be a 'fashion' fad).
I pass plenty of people in the shop, wearing 'proper' day clothes that smell like they haven't washed in days

I am also very worried at the thought of this being just the start of untollerant people dictating what others can/can't wear/look like when going out for thier shopping. What next? Skirt length measured before being allowed into a food shop? Hair checked to make sure it is clean and freshly brushed? People barred for having tattoos on show in case it offends others??? People baned from shopping if they have pet-hair on thier clothes? What about people wearing clothes that look like PJ's but are not - will they have to provide proof that thier clothes were not purchased as bed-wear??? Poeple banned from shopping with babies (I personally can't stand to hear screaming babies in a shop, but am of the mind we should be tollerant of others). It's ridiculous...

It's nice that people have standards of how they want to appear to others when they are out & about, but I do not like, people forcing thier standards on others :( :(

I work from home and often will get up & washed, then put on PJ's, I find it much more comfortable slaving over the computer/desk all day in my PJ's than in jeans/trousers. I work very hard (frmo home) and work many hours. Whenever a friend visits in the day-time (they just don't get the fact that I WORK form home ) I get the comment " you're so lazy" - because I am not dressed! (deosn't matter that I work 13/14 hrs a day - I'm lazy - I'm in my PJ's), and that comment from somebody who will get up & dressed and sit on thier bum doing nothing all day. You can not judge how lazy somebody is by what they are wearing, you can only judge thier attitude to dressing.

Im feel the same...i get up, wake the kids, have a wash, get dressed then take kids to school, walk one dog come home then get back into my peejays. I spend the first part of my day cleaning a 3 bed house with dogs bouncing off me, so to me I dont see the point in wearing my clothes to bleach the kitchen floor or roll around in the back garden with the dog.

Will admit I have never been out wearing night clothes but once, answering the door to a delivery man in the afternoon he apoligised for getting me out of bed !

Well..I got a pair of all in one from Primark with feet ..love it at 51  great for early morning cleaning up after the dogs in the garden but if someone knocked at the door I would ..die!!!

Im in my office by 7am dressed, I get up on Saturday shove on old trousers and a tee shirt (& bra) and clean my house, then shower and dress for the day. Never pj's they arent loungers, my Mum used to ask if I spent such a lot on clothes I always looked like I was dressed by Oxfam - Im comfey but not smart. Smart is work and out.

I guess we all have comfey but our supermarket is a car drive away and I would not be seen dead untidy!!!

My niece has pj days with her three but thats when they are at home, its perception I think and age. I think if you sleep in something (and loose up to 1.5 pints of water when you sleep and wear no undies is unhygenic to shop in those clothes). Thats me, and I think its some clothing that should be within 4 walls not out for all and sundry to see.