Pajamas in public...

[Justin B]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/...sign_of_america_s_declining_moral_fiber_.html

Wrong. Completely, utterly, and fantasticly wrong.

 

[Gromulus]

I concur. Heck, I don't even wear them in private.

 

[Retro_GI_Jane]

Over ten years ago, I remember seeing people in public with pajamas on and it wasn't just the college kids. Why is this suddenly news now? Because some celebrity is making it "fashionable?"

 

[Tomasso]

[video=youtube;TqzCYfcHvYw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqzCYfcHvYw[/video]

 

[avedwards]

Unlike this guy I'm actually glad that I have to wear a suit to work. It makes me feel like I take my job, my appearance and my hygiene seriously.

The only time I have every worn pyjamas in public was when I walked my girlfriend to the bus stop and didn't have time to get dressed and consequently had to quickly put a suit and scarf on over my pyjamas to hide the fact that I wasn't properly dressed.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

People of Walmart pajamas

Look if you dare.

 

[dhermann1]

I wonder how many people are wearing the same pajamas that they actually just slept in out in public, and how many are wearing "daytime" pajamas. I'll bet it's overwhelmingly the latter. And if that's the case we'll see all sorts of "daytime pajamas" being produced, which will of course not rally be sleepwear, they'll just be softer looser fitting daytime clothes. They'll be made of heavier material than real jams. But they'll have bright colors and loose comfortable fit.
Yes, kinda creepy to see, especially when you see people who are just obviously slobs bopping around the mall. But we're gonna have to learn to live with it. Personally, I don't think I'm gonna waste a huge amount of energy deploring this trend.
Sigh.

 

[IsaacRN]

It is sad to see indeed. I often see young ladies wearing pajama bottoms and tops, with actual fuzzy bedroom slippers. Who in the world told them this was ok, should be given a stern scolding. The entire bedroom slipper saga is a bit out there. I don't see how one could be comfortable wearing a huge pair of fuzzy pink slippers out in public. I suppose I just take a bit more pride in my appearance.

 

[dhermann1]

Another thought: Pajamas (or pyjamas) were originally garments worn during the day out in public during the 18th and 19th century in places like India and Persia. When the British went to these countries they picked up a lot of new habits, one of which was wearing pyjamas. They were so comfy they wore them at night.
So history is just coming full circle.

 

[Edward]

I've only worn pyjamas in public, twice. Once, just to be a devil....

...and the second time, being recently rendered undead, I think a little oversight in dressing was understandable....

AS regards the article, it's simply not worth bothering with. There will always be those thinking they're hip or arch or radical by flouting convention like this (as opposed to challenging, oh, I don't know... bigotry or racism or something actually significant). Don't give them the attention they crave.

Regarding pyjama wearing in public, I can only recall seeing it once. Just last weekend, actually, a couple of Chinese girls in central London. It does occur in the UK - I gather it is common in Liverpool - but not to the extent that the US media might suggest it does over there (I'm sure that too is exaggerated). That said, The Gap outlet I walk past on a regular basis has what I believe to be some form of combination pyjama trouser / leisure wear item in the front window. Odd. I quite enjoy pyjamas at home myself, though as a rule I prefer to dress for the day even if I'm not going out. If I can't be bothered to clothe myself, it's a sure sign I'm ill or depressed.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I couldn't wear my pajamas outside even if I wanted to -- they're worn thru at the seat. Even modern fashion hasn't gone that far yet.

 

[Edward]

Another thought: Pajamas (or pyjamas) were originally garments worn during the day out in public during the 18th and 19th century in places like India and Persia. When the British went to these countries they picked up a lot of new habits, one of which was wearing pyjamas. They were so comfy they wore them at night.
So history is just coming full circle.

Exactly. I'd find it interesting to see them return to something more like the original garment, but there are two ways it will go - either this will simply the the ext step in the long casualisation of clothing, or there will be a swing back in favour of something more formal on the basis there's not much anywhere left to go from where we are. I'm stil holding out faint hope legs will get wider and waists higher again...

 

[LocktownDog]

I sometimes get the heebie-jeebies about where our world is going.

 

[C-dot]

I quite enjoy pyjamas at home myself, though as a rule I prefer to dress for the day even if I'm not going out. If I can't be bothered to clothe myself, it's a sure sign I'm ill or depressed.

Agreed completely! I don't consider wearing pyjamas to be wearing clothing, or being "dressed". They're just that: pyjamas.

 

[bunnyb.gal]

...and the second time, being recently rendered undead, I think a little oversight in dressing was understandable....

:eusa_clap The Walking Dead, London style! This is brilliant, Edward! What was the event? Frightfest?

I couldn't wear my pajamas outside even if I wanted to -- they're worn thru at the seat. Even modern fashion hasn't gone that far yet.

Which reminds me, tongue-in-cheek though this film may have been (and after seeing the clip one may take the ribaldry a bit further if one is of such mind :whistling, I'm surprised no one's yet gone down this route...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_fFAoHuy24

I love how the article started going on about pyjamas costing $800, as if an obscene price tag makes the practice any more acceptable. (Course, then you'll get the morons going out in designer pj's with the tag still on) Jammies in public? With so many people dressing so abysmally already, I find it more and more tricky to distinguish the vagrants and the criminals from the "regular folk". Add pj's as outerwear, and you can add "people who wandered out of the mental hospital/care home" to the mix.

What "something comfortable" do you reckon these folk "slip into" after a hard day at work? Sheesh!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

The women at work don't have to wear a full uniform, like the fellas do, they just wear smocks. All too often, the 'pants' they are wearing are pajama bottoms. If I were the boss, I'd put a stop to that. Completely unprofessional.

 

[Edward]

:eusa_clap The Walking Dead, London style! This is brilliant, Edward! What was the event? Frightfest?

World Zombie Day - that's 2010. Also went to 2008 and 2011. Great day out. Usually about three hundred folks staggering down Oxford Street, banging on shop windows, as the undead..... Cracking fun.

 

[dnjan]

On a university campus, I see a lot of students wearing pajama bottoms as lightweight sweats.
Not saying that is good, just saying that as the number of pajama sightings has gone up, the frequency of students walking around in sweats has decreased.

 

[vitanola]

A sure sign that our offices, homes, and stores are terribly overheated.

In the wintertime here in the Northern United States one whoulf only be comfortable in such deshabile when between featherbeds, I think.

 

[RodeoRose]

My college roommate freshman year would more often than not go to sleep in the sweats or pajamas she'd worn that day, then put on a "clean" (I'd hope) pair in the morning, and repeat the cycle. She was in most other regards a perfectly functioning human being, and didn't seem remotely depressed, simply slovenly.

I don't wish to judge others, but as a University student, I do feel that pajamas in the classroom are inappropriate and completely counterproductive to the learning experience. See also: sleeping in class. Though at my school, many kids have Mommy and Daddy to sign the tuition checks and just see classes as something to slog through. I'm a juvenile curmudgeon, I guess lol.