Pajamas in public...

[Amy Jeanne]

This should be a happy compromise for everyone

lol lol lol
I AM DYING

 

[LizzieMaine]

Incidentally (and this is 100% true): W.C. Fields ordered one of these (in terrycloth) for himself. Can you imagine what he must have looked like in it?

Like an overstuffed living room chair?

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I reckon a lot of people will laugh at themselves for wearing PJ bottoms in public years from now.

I remember in the 80s my aunt (who was IN her 80s at the time) was looking at photos of herself from the 20s. I remember she sneared and said "Goodness, I look like something the cat dragged in!"

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Like an overstuffed living room chair?

Worse: like an ill-fitting one. When Fields came into the store, he was mismeasured by a salesman. The "lounge suit" pajama didn't fit him well at all. The store's founder/owner, James Oviatt, sent ol' W.C. the most groveling, apologetic letter you can imagine. (That letter is now in the W.C. Fields file at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.)

 

[Pompidou]

Sorry, but some people happen to believe that decorum still has a place in society even in 2012. Manners. Politeness. Respect. Decency. Taste.

Sorry, but somethings NEVER go out of style. People can dress like Lady GaGa if they like, or wear pyjamas outside, but I reserve the right to look down my nose at it.

We're in a community that exists because it believes they already have gone out of style. Wishing it was the golden era won't make it so. Now I do agree with you. Manners, politeness, respect, decency and taste never go out of style. What it means to be those things does. If we unthawed a man from the 1600s and set him loose on the town, he'd surely look down his nose at pretty much everyone. That's the problem. Values change every generation, and picking any one generation as the one that had it right is too arbitrary. You like your way of life, and more power to you. You've got every right to look down your nose at others. Some values never die. Would that one fall under respect? I'm not sure.

 

[MisterCairo]

^^^
A chacun son gout.....

 

[MisterCairo]

Not everyone in Britain is happy with pyjama-cladders out in public:

http://www.thefashionpolice.net/201...s-not-to-wear-pyjamas-for-the-school-run.html

The question is what to wear? The Harris tweed?

Well after reading this BBC news report about how the good people of Cardiff like nothing more than popping down to the supermarket in a pair of PJ’s and comfortable slippers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8484116.stm

I thought tomorrow I will be mostly wearing pyjamas.

Well why not?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Not everyone in Britain is happy with pyjama-cladders out in public:

http://www.thefashionpolice.net/201...s-not-to-wear-pyjamas-for-the-school-run.html

Again the mind boggles!

Calling all cars... Calling all cars...

I thought you were the little boy! :doh:

 

[LizzieMaine]

I thought you were the little boy! :doh:

And you just know that has a drop flap with big white buttons on the back.

 

[Feraud]

Don't Tread on Us-

 

[AtomicEraTom]

You know, I've been thinking about the Pajama wearing public a lot since this thread began.

I was also thinking of how when I was a kid, I, and many others like me, wanted so badly to be like adults. We wanted to dress like adults, drive cars, own houses, make money, do everything grown ups do. It seems so many people got so close, except for dressing the part! I think it's almost like a last grasp at youth.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

You know, I've been thinking about the Pajama wearing public a lot since this thread began.

I was also thinking of how when I was a kid, I, and many others like me, wanted so badly to be like adults. We wanted to dress like adults, drive cars, own houses, make money, do everything grown ups do. It seems so many people got so close, except for dressing the part! I think it's almost like a last grasp at youth.

That was me when I was a kid. Oh how I hated being a kid back then! I couldn't wait to be a grown-up! As far as the idea of taking that last grasp at youth, I get that. Only the difference is that the youth that I'd want to revisit, if it were at all possible, is that of 18-25, not eight-years-old!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Oh, you never miss being eight years old? I sure do miss being a kid that young now and then. When 'grown up' life gets me down, I think about how easy being a kid was. I sure don't wanna go back, though!

That was me when I was a kid. Oh how I hated being a kid back then! I couldn't wait to be a grown-up! As far as the idea of taking that last grasp at youth, I get that. Only the difference is that the youth that I'd want to revisit, if it were at all possible, is that of 18-25, not eight-years-old!

 

[Nathan Dodge]

That was me when I was a kid. Oh how I hated being a kid back then! I couldn't wait to be a grown-up! As far as the idea of taking that last grasp at youth, I get that. Only the difference is that the youth that I'd want to revisit, if it were at all possible, is that of 18-25, not eight-years-old!

Like it or not, the whole friggin' society is geared towards eight-year-old kids. The grown ups defer to children in all matters of import and things like holiday conversations among adults are now spent gathered around the children like we were the cast of It's a Good Life. I remember at one of my own family gatherings, when we discussed the death of a loved one many years before. My nine-year-old niece said "What are you guys talking about?" and my panicked brother-in-law replied "Ch-change the subject!" , as if the mere knowledge of this subject would shatter his daughter's fragile psyche. Unbelievable. What Hell hath these Boomers wrought?

 

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

PJ's in public is just a craze the kids are going through, like Pogo-sticks, yo-Yo,s, Streaking, Hot Pants, see through Blouses, seeing how many you can cram into a VW Beetle, and more recently planking! (remember that?) the more people talk about it the more folk will try it, and then it will burn out! I personally do not think it's the end of civilisation as we know it as some Gurus may profess, unless it becomes a craze to hold up Banks in your PJ's, and post video on YouTube

 

[Edward]

Oh, you never miss being eight years old? I sure do miss being a kid that young now and then. When 'grown up' life gets me down, I think about how easy being a kid was. I sure don't wanna go back, though!

There's not a lot I wouldn't give to spend a few weeks as an adult now back in the late Seventies / early Eighties, catch up with a few people we've lost with whom I didn't have enough time and whatever. Nothing, however, would make me willing to go back to being a kid again. Not unless I could skip out my twenties. I'd rather be fifty now than twenty again.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

PJs in public is just a craze, like ... see-through blouses...

Ah, but that particular craze should never have ended.

 

[Edward]

Ah, but that particular craze should never have ended.

Meh. I prefer women that aren't so obvious about themselves.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I'd rather be fifty now than twenty again.

I'm with you 100%, there. I'm 21 and this is a lousy age.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Meh. I prefer women that aren't so obvious about themselves.

Well, sure: it should be just semi-transparent. Even better if it seems accidentally so.