Have I missed something in the last few years?  When did it become OK to leave the house in your nightwear?  I can't understand this trand at all, so may have to put it doan a to grumpy old woman type thing.  Over the past year or two I have noticed the occassional person wearing pyjamas outside (and I don't mean just fetching the milk in)  First itme was a girl in Asda one Saturday evening - I assumed she was on her way to a Pyjama party.  Then have seen one or 2 families with kids in PJs/dressing gowns when out and about, a couple of times in supermarkets, but one in a local coffee shop having lunch - seemed strange, but assumed the kids were being difficult about getting dressed, or were perhaps just enjoying new PJs and wanted to wear them.  My sister has a shop in a relativley residential area of Newcastle which has a big student population, and if visiting there on a weekend noticed lots of very sleepy/hungover looking students popping between flats or to the corner shop in night attire.
Then yesterday evening I was in a corner shop and a family came in - Mum and 3 kids, Kids all in Pyjamas and slippers, Mum in PJs, bathrobe and slippers.  So, when did it become the norm to pop out to the shops without dressing?  Other than a desperate emergency such as the house catching fire I cannot imagine appearing in public in dressing gown etc., but it seems to be something that lots of folk do without a second thought - what did I miss that caused this change?  I do remember as a small child occassionally being driven to grandparents house after being got ready for bed, and hustled form car into house for babysitting, but Mum would certainly never have taken me inot a shop on the way.  Is it an age thing on my part or was there some great social change I missed out on?

> When did it become OK to leave the house in your nightwear? 

I have missed this trend so far (luckily) and only an emergency would cause me to be outside in my pyjamas, other than pegging out the washing early in the morning!
What I am aware of though, and truly detest, is the trend for men to wander the streets topless in summer. Now this is fine on the beach but not on the high street! I think the rules must have relaxed too much, when I was little it was not considered acceptable to eat whilst walking along the street either! 

Well, they would certainly be getting some strange looks from me gwen. :-D And perhaps an "Oh dear, have you no other clothes have you had a housefire or something?" ;-) 

I haven't yet seen anyone in a supermarket like that, but have occassionally seen mothers dropping their children off at schools with PJ's on in the car, it honestly bewilders me. It literally takes me 10 mins to have a quick shower, slap on a bit of a face and get dressed, I can't believe these people can't get up 10 mins earlier and I've worked from home throughtout my childrens upbringing, but have never felt the need to not get dressed.

It is certainly becoming a trend for some 'celebs' to do this on the school run too. Maybe that is where it has been copied from.

I know when we have been travelling to a hotel and not due to arrive until very late, I've popped my young children in PJ's to put straight to bed, but there really is no other excuse unless a fun run etc.

Seems some people are getting lazier and lazier, because that is all it is. Do they really think we want to see them in their bed clothes? Bet they haven't even brushed their teeth, YUK!

my husbands cousin wears them all the time. if she goes out the house she may change but will sometimes put clothes over the top of them but as soon as she gets home from shopping etc she rushes up stairs and puts them back on again. i've always though it was a funny thing to do as if it's for comfort then there are plenty of nice clothes around that would do the same and what must her little boy think.

As much as I wouldnt dare go down the shops in my pjs, quite often in the warmer weather I can be see wandering the woods early doors in my pj's, wellies and fleece - but this is 6am and I rarely see anyone :)  there is no point having a shower until I have walked the boys so whats the point in putting on clean clothes !!

Pj's in the outside world, blimy.

I actually sleep naked so that would be a sight!!

But I do notice my son's partners wear there PJ trousers (furry ones) for a quick trip to drop their OH's at work if they are going home. My Niece has a PJ day when all the kids can keep them on all day.

Its def. a generation thing and you will not catch me joining in!

I love my PJ's and have wore them to walk the dogs in the fields with wellies, and my waterproof, I would wear them all day if I could!! lol
You get very trendy ones now, and fleece ones are so warm in the winter months.

Sophia had a pair on this weekend Blue fleecy the logo said Moody Moo with a cow cartoon and the trousers were white and black cow markings!! But she is a size 8!!!! Helen has sheep ones and sheep slippers and she is a size 10!!!!

I am the same as whistler.  I could not sleep wearing anything, feel claustaphobic just thinking about it!

The only place I've ever seen this is in airports and then only children ready for long flights.
Not happening around my area ...so far.

My nighties last for ages I tend to have a shower in the evening slip on a nightie then take it off to go to bed. All windows are open and Im still hot in the buff!! OH does not own a pair a PJ's at all.

This sounds like me and my OH Whister.  The only exceptions being it's PJs I put on at night and definitely don't sleep with the window open - there are beasties out there!!!

I'll admit to picking OH up from nights out in my PJs, but that's the extent of it and I can't say I've seen many people round where I am wandering round in theirs.  My best friend has come to ours a couple of times in hers though.

People wearing PJ's outside ????.......The're called chav's !! :)

My sons told me what Chav means do you know?

Yep i know the translation of chav not brave enuff to quote it though particulary in the borough I live in !
and the pj thingy it does seem to be getting about somehow the trackkybottoms seems to be sliding in to pj's for day wear LOL
Commented to my teenager daughters friend last week that I like her outfit came back the answer it's a set of ikea's pj!!
Still they look very nice and unpyjama like if you are size 8

that is so strange i saw a woman walking her dog in pj's today, and it was about 11 o'clock also it wasn't as is it was up the woods it was around the streets maybe theres a new fashion that we havent ben told about lol

I've seen this a few times, but it looked like they'd just been fake-baked and were wearing pyjama bottoms because the were baggy. 

The furthest I venture in mine is to the car if I've left something in the boot.

My dress downs at home are shorts and a T, but I could not go to Sainsbury's in that.
I think that kids and adults have less inhibitions.
I remember my dear old Nannie who used to hang the washing out in a hat. Even in an emergancy she would have her old slippers on (the ones with the pom poms on like a boot) her pinny and her hat!!

Times change. my mum always put on some lipstick, now its much more casual but Pj's in the street never!!

> Is it an age thing on my part or was there some great social change I missed out on?

probably not, i'm a youn un and i felt dodgy enought toileting tio in pitch dark in mine last night, and that was with a poncho flung over me :)

edited to add i have gone out in my slippers before but they could pass for shoes

Have to say that I have noticed a few young girls around here recently in what I would call pyjamas.  Wondered if it was a new fashion trend LOL and whether it was just classed as casual clothing??

Haha! If it's an age thing then I was born in the wrong decade lol!  I pull jeans over the top of my pj's if the dogs need to go out - a right pillock I would look walking round with Snoopy and Poodle pj's.  I see so many young girls walking round Asda in their pj's and slippers, why???  It would be awfully cold going past the fridges, I always have to wear my coat.  And this may be TMI, but do they wear underwear as well??? I daren't go out without underwear on, what would be the point in putting underwear on, to put PJs on, to then take it all off again when you get home?  Boggles my mind, it really does.

Have to say my day wear does get accused of being peejays !! I will drop the kids of to school in the car wearing them but I do wear my 'lounge wear' in the house in the day because there is just no point in me getting dressed, my nice clothes will be covered in hair and slobber in 2.7 seconds flat but I dont wear it out to go shops or to a friends.

I do cringe a bit though when I get a delivery in the afternoon and the driver will say 'didnt get you up, did I ?'

on my dog walks i have seen a women mowing here front garden in her pjs, another women walked to the local shop in her pjs, and another women actually took her kids to school in her pjs! I think it is lazy and horrid! :) the rule in our house is that unless you are unwell, you get up, wash and put clean clothes on! :)

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liverpool is THE worst place for the "pyjama" thing.
and its not one generation, you wil see mother and daughters walking round asda in jamas.
now dont get me wrong i have a few friends who have children who drop the kids off in the car and they still have their jamas on but liverpool is just strange where this is commonly accepted.

When we go away in our caravan, everybody is walking around in the morning in PJS or next to nothing...going to the showers or shop.
Nobody takes any notice.

I remember being quite shocked as a teenager when we stayed in a posh hotel and at breakfast all these women appeared in dressing gowns and slippers with their hair in curlers!!! Not the done thing in my neck of the woods (mind you I'm watching a programme on TV about the calvinistic Scots at the moment - so maybe that's why!! You're not here to enjoy yourself you know !!!!! :-D :-D )

> I could not sleep wearing anything, feel claustaphobic just thinking about it!

I can't wear PJ's at all for that reason, but a nightie keeps the chill off my top half and I can decide how much of the lower half is covered depending on how warm it is, but I get up several times a night for the loo, otherwise when sleeping with other half I would not wear anything as two in a bed is quite warm enough.

I will pop out to the bin or get something from the car on the drive in my nightie and dressing gown, but that is it.

Mind you at East of England I did wear nightclothes to the shower block covered in large coat, with boots on.

I do hate to get dressed until I am going to leave the house though.

In relation to PJ'S, it seems like its something of a trend which is coming over from America. A good few years back now i used to see females wandering about in a nice vest top or t-shirt and a pair of PJ' bottoms and flip flops.
They seem to have a different name for them out there, they call them lounge pants as the bottoms are sold as a separate. I have worn mine out and about, but only in America where its seen the norm, i find them very comfy.

oh we were just talking about this at the weekend, my son's girlfriend was saying that there are so many people in liverpool that go shopping in their jim jams! She was asking if we see it round here, I had to say it was a new one on me!

That's awful!  What is the world coming to.  I slop around the house in soft trousers - definitely daywear, but would change to go down the road.  One of my neighbours the other day came out of her house only wearing a towel!!  She leaves the dogs out all the time and the puppy pesters Meg as we go past.  I am terrified of this dog getting under a car chasing us across the road.  I made a fuss outside her house one day trying to get her dog to leave mine alone.  She came out to get the dog in her towel.  I did feel embarrassed - but it has made no difference - dogs still stroll all over neighbours gardens and in front of cars.  I suppose they will end up more streetwise then my Meg so I have stopped worrying now. 

>People wearing PJ's outside ????.......The're called chav's !! 

nope, I dont live in a council house and im not violent.  Maybe you should take a look at your own signature ... about juding people !

Chav's  - well I do come from a council estate, from lovely hardworking parents who I have always been proud of. A different generation yes, but it's a term I find very overused by people who think they are much better than anybody else. In fact if it wasn't for the amazing opportunities given to people nowadays they too would be in a council house or whatever they are called now. My parents were bought up to only buy what they could afford and to never owe money. A mortgage was out of the question.

was that for me ? I wasnt condoning council houses or people that live in them - just explaining what the word meant because most people use it and haven't got a clue.

pyjamas

what are they?

> Is it an age thing on my part or was there some great social change I missed out on?

A bit of both I suspect!!  As far as dress is concerned then pretty much anything goes.  I think the lines between indoor wear and outdoor wear have got a bit blurred of late.  Ugg boots look a bit like slippers used to, vest tops look like sleep wear, 'lounge pants' (US style) look like PJ's.

It looks great on some people but others really shouldn't be encouraged...

You just hope that somewhere in their day there is an opportunity for getting clean and dressed;  and going back to bed in the same outfit you wore to Asda isn't really a hygienic option.  There's nothing better than putting a clean body into clean bedding and a grubby pair of PJ's would rather ruin the pleasure :)

> nope, I dont live in a council house and im not violent.

Maybe YOU should consider that where i live the word chav doesn't mean the above...ever thought about that !

Get off your high horse.....my comment was written light heartedly.

ClareyS - no it wasn't aimed at you at all, sorry. I was trying to explain also why the term is a ridiculous and far too easily used one.

Apart from the odd trip into the garden early morning I am up and dressed by 7.30am most days. I too sleep as nature intended...in the buff... much too hot for a woman of a certain age to be wrapped up in bed LOL.
I have not seen this at all in Yeovil! but think it is the hight of lazyness, I can see the use of something comfy and relaxed to wear in the house during the day but I would always get properly dressed to go out. I do think that standards are slipping very badly, gone the days of going out dressed to the nines for a Sat night out, I feel overdressed at times in black jeans and smart tops, you see people out to a club/pub/ etc.. in shorts and scruffy T's.  We have the trend amongst the (MUCH) younger generation here in Yeovil of OTT dressing up with dresses and hairstyles that look like they come from the fasion pages (Well at the start of the night anyhow!) Somehow they have not yet realized that short short skirts and dresses look awfull when the owner is very drunk and lying on the floor!!
I do not put make up on every day and do spent most of the day in jeans and T's but if I was off to town or shopping I do make sure they are clean (Minus snail trails from 3 Berners, and designer paw prints!) I will pop round to the local shop as I am, but maybe it is my age, my Mother taught me to be acceptably dressed when going out.
Aileen

>Maybe YOU should consider that where i live the word chav doesn't mean the above...ever thought about that ! Get off your high horse.....my comment was written light heartedly.

so what does it mean then ? thats what it means everywhere else, I wasnt aware it meant different things in different places.  Im not on my high horse but if your comment was written light heartedly maybe in future you could use a :) at the end.

> maybe in future you could use a :-) at the end.

Have another look at my first post...there was a :) at the end of it.

apologies, an oversight on my part.

> so what does it mean then ?

My kids at 13 and 14 use these terms to classify themselves and each other!  If I hold up an item of clothing whilst shopping I get responses like too Goth, too Chav, too Emo. It's obviously linked to music and lifestyle choices too but mine aren't so aware of that element yet.

From what I can tell they don't see any of these as derogatory terms just as descriptions of style.  Whole shops can be dismissed as too Chav (nylon sportswear stores) unless we're buying PE kit :)

Whilst us 'grown-ups' are aware of the social element and the class aspect the kids simply claim the language as theirs and use it however they like.  After all it's not so different from previous fashion and culture descriptions such as - Essex Girl, Punk, Grunge, Sloane, and Preppie

On the topic of PJ's in public this article made me laugh

We don't seem to have chav's around here. My kids call them 'neds' rather than chavs. Apparently the 'council-housed and violent' and ' non-educated deliquent' are backronym's ie words chosen to fit the letters :-D . I always thought the terms had more to do with their fashion sense (or lack of) than their social status :-D :-D 

:-D Funny article Dogs a babe

Thats why I didnt explain what it meant but it is a commonly used phrase and it does mean what was written.
Bit like other phrases of years back its comes in and out of fashion dont be so touchy Cders!!!

Merlot me too! Im at that age where I go from -1 to Reglo 9 in about 3 seconds!! Thats why I have a cuddly OH, he stays all cuddled up in the quilt I lay on top of the bed, then freeze and cuddle up to OH then out again but he is a permenat Hot water bottle!!

My nighties are usually pink or have teddies on them - pressies and ny lounge trousers are lilac or pink striped and I could not wear them out!! But the girls seem quite happy to put te hair in a pony tail a slouch top and furry trews and there off delivering OH's to work ot putting out the bin. I have a well trained OH that does that so I dont need to show my private wear outside of my house. Only my OH and dogs are privy to my off duty sex symbol look!!

Only my OH and dogs are privy to my off duty sex symbol look!!

Ha Ha !! I'm not sure if I still have an "ON duty " look anymore LOL ;) ;)
Aileen

PS I had to go out and purchase a couple of nighties specially for a recent trip to the operating theatre!! My very own version of a "Theatre gown!!!"

Neither do i but OH thinks Im fine and I think he is so at least Im a sex symbol to someone!

I have about three big T shirt type ones with about three pairs of loungy trousers but i would not dream of scaring the neighbours by appearing outside!!

Oh the joy of very high fences all round the back bit of the garden!

He He  and after dark in the back garden in the hot balmy evenings !!

Thankfully the PJs as outdoor wear hasn't yet appeared here.

I do have to confess to taking my son to school once with him wearing his pyjama trousers and slippers with the rest of his school uniform. He was about 7 years old and I was fed up with the constant nagging for him to get ready for school each morning and so issued him with the ultimatum that he either got dressed on time or he would go to school wearing whatever stage of dress he had reached by 8:30 the next morning. Not being one to issue an idle threat we arrived at school next morning with his trousers and shoes in a bag and him wearing his PJ bottoms and slippers. I told his teacher the reason for him arriving as he did and she then told the rest of the class why he was dressed that way.

Next morning he was up and dressed as soon as he was awake and it was never a problem again.