PJs on - off to the stores

I've looked up lounge set now. Men certainly don't wear that kind of thing here routinely and definitely not outside the confines of their own homes. We do wear pyjamas though - well some do. Men here do wear some awful things though. Vests and shorts with shaved heads, earrings and lots of bling (gold chains etc). To answer your original question, yes I think that your lounge sets would generally be regarded as sleep wear or house wear.

I don't think so. But then again I don't really know what a lounge set is. If it is terry towelling and lurid then it ought to be regarded as bad taste if worn outside! LOL.

Well, im surprized you dont know what they are. I buy them in the mens dept. They sometimes have pics on them like the simpsons, etc. Matching t-shirt.

I do agree with you on that. The world is going down hill, and fast. At one time I thought it was only here in the US.

That's kind of my view too. I think that if we don't set ourselves some decent standards then we can't expect society more widely to have any either.

I still get dressed up. I even wear a DJ (tuxedo) sometimes!

I read this quickly, and thought you meant you wear your tuxedo for the supermarket.. That might be taking the whole thing a bit too far!

Maybe she knew and was really upset that nobody noticed!

I think that taking the bin out is different. Wandering about shopping in nightwear strikes me as slovenly. I can remember when the shops didn't open on sundays either!

I have never gone to the store in my nightdress, but there have been a few occassions where I tromped around my own property in them, but only breifly. But it was an emergency twice and a wonderful surprize the last time. The last time was when the colt was born.

I don't really think that it is a new thing and in truth I don't think that I have ever seen anyone doing it where I shop. But many people have little sense of decorum these days.

I used to live close to a mental hospital and we often saw the patients wandering around the village in their nightwear. But they were unwell - I think that we ought to maintain a modicum of time and place that's all.

I have an idea! Instead of making a rule to stop people from wearing their PJ's to the store, embarrass them out of doing it. If someone spots someone in the store wearing their robe or PJ's, announce on the loudspeaker that someone must have wandered off from the Mental Institution and that the men in white coats will be called to escort them back to where they belong. Wouldn't that be funny? I think if they actually were 'handled' by the men in white coats not believing anything they said, and putting them in a straight jacket once, in the padded wagon, they may think twice before being so slovenly again. And word would spread, too.

do you remember those harem pants from the 1980's? ick

Me neither. I do remember harem pants too! I always thought that they looked a little silly.

I could never either, but I asked my daughter once (21 yrs old), why she was wearing her PJ bottoms out, and she said that they were not PJ's. They are just the new style. I thought they looked like PJ's, but what do I know about what the kids are wearing these days.

Well maybe I worded that wrong, when I go out I do not care if you like what I have on or not, I do not know you and I am out buying groceries ,if you look down on the way I am dressed, usually jeans and a sweatshirt then that would be your problem, I don't stand in stores and look at what others are wearing, never did bother me and not going to start now with worrying about it. I have a lot of running to do on the first of the month as my husband and I are both on disability and I go dressed to where I am comfortable. Fashion has never been a big deal with me, dressing up to make an impression on someone, same as high priced clothes, i wear niceclothes, I shop Macys, Dillards, Kohl's but I guess it came from years of working at the factory and wearing jeans and boots and we are not going out to formal places people. As to what someone else wears to the store, is to me their business and if a store decides that they are too good for some of the customers then I guess those customers, (or at least I would) consider shopping else where. I think too many people into too many people's business now a days. I'm going into your store to spend my money and it is good any where so if my dress was not what you thought it should be as long as my arsss wasn't sticking out then it your loss of my money, but I be dang if anyone is going to tell me what I can wear when I go out to pay bills or buy groceries as I see it as none of your business, you should be happy to just have my business. If not there are plenty more that will take it no matter how I am dress. I am sorry to sound so harsh but getting real tired of people that seem to think their way is best and try to push it off on me. If they want to go to the store in their pj's let them, if you want to go dressed like you going to the ball then do it. Why can't people let others alone and mind their own business, gets me to thinking maybe the pj's covered up the arsss and that is what they mad about nothing to see anymore.

You say yourself that you don't care anymore. But why not. You aren't old and frankly many elderly people do care. Comfort is one thing, not being bothered is another.

I don't think that my way is best for you. As you say, we don't know each other. If we did you'd know that I live and let live. However, you dress how you want and what has your being on benefits got to do with it? You seem mighty defensive. If we don't care for ourselves then is it any wonder that we live in the societies that we do? That's the point I'm trying to make. It isn't my intention to upset you, sorry if I did.

LOL. I think that it is that people don't care too much. I don't know when or why really.

Yeah, so I don't see the difference if sometimes we think people are wearing PJ bottoms when they are not. Who cares what they wear, so long as they are clothed and relatively clean. I know I am not aware of all of the strange styles that some people find fascinating. And I don't want to judge either, just because someone wants or needs to be comfortable.

Yeah, I don't see the problem, either. I mean, most pajamas cover a lot more than some people wear that are "dressed up", and I can't see the stores banning short skirts or low cut shirts not to mention shorts, tank tops, spaghetti straps, and the list goes on and on. I can understand them saying "no shirt, no shoes - no service", but to dictate the kinds of clothing that people can wear is pushing it a little too far, in my opinion.

I think that I know the kind of pants you are talking about, and both my daughter and I have them. I call them my "lounging pants", but they really are not pajama bottoms. They are extremely comfortable, though, and I have been known to wear them to the store, especially after my C-section when I could only wear loose fitting clothes that did not have restricting fabric (like jeans) or a tight waistband (like sweatpants). My daughter also wears them out to the store. I have never seen anybody look at either of us funny when we were wearing them, but I have also seen other people wearing the same style pants, so they probably realize that they are not pajama pants.

They've had quite a vote of confidence and support. I think that we are getting tired of the minority ruling the roost!

I agree with you absolutely. We don't have to wear our sunday best - but being decently attired is not too much to ask is it?

They are comfortable, That's why we wear them in bed!

Hey, why not outside like walking your dog? Hey I do it..I try to be all covered though so I don't provoke neighbors dirty thoughts hehehe...just decent in case the police sees me and stuff :(

Do you wear your boots in bed? A rubber suit in the sauna? A swimsuit for a job interview? It's all to do with appropriateness.

Ger orf wit ya, ya git...Miss Marple I ain't! I wears me best tracky dacks...ie the ones least faded with least holes and my best (least stained) purple t-shirt. I wear my closest matching sneakers..oh and underwear. I do have a set of genyuwine cultured pearls, my boyfriend got them for a job he did, but they really don't go with anything I own. I have a greenish gold chain I wear all the time...very understated. I'm not a pretenshus person ya know.

I guess that they come for miles to see winter PJ girl in her nightwear in summer!!! I'm sure that you are always dressed up to go shopping. Twin set and pearls. Tweed skirt, lisle stockings and brown brogues no doubt!

oops-but you have done it again and made me blush! xxx

I like to be dressed when I go out LoLo and try to look fairly clean and tidy. You are always beautifully turned out. Even in your PJs and I should know! LOL. XXXX

I don't don a tux. But I do think that there's a minimum expectation. I don't like to see shirtless men out and about in town/stores either!

I think that wearing your PJs shopping says something about you. That you don't care about yourself or others. But then I am just an old fashioned fart! LOL. I am sure that you are always well turned out.

Me? You´ve gotta be kidding! I normally seem to have chicken poo on my knees for a start ....

I think that it depends where you live too. This Tesco was in Cardiff. I have to be dressed to leave the house usually!

I don't wear jeans or trainers either Tamara. I don't think that Tesco have banned those though! XXXX