Pyjamas as daywear - wtf?

Aah, the Jack Wills look, I believe?

? It's for Red nose Day

The sort of people wearing their PJ's in public are rougher than a hedgehogs arse. There was a link on here a while back to a show in Ireland where the guests where proud to be wearing their pJ's in public. Will try to find it.

Having said that my youngest went to school in some PJ's today for Red Nose Day.

I have a pair of PJ bottoms that I have never worn in bed, and really look more like yoga pants, or similar, and I wear them around the house all day, but never, ever out in public ?

Was there not something about a Liverpool phenomenon of people going to the shops in their pjs?

Finn went to nursery today in his PJs ? but it was for comic relief ? I'm guessing that'snot what you're on about though?

I have to say PJs are not something I've witnessed, but I did see two girls fully made up - I'm talking the whole shebang, straightened hair, caked on make-up etc etc .... and the most ugly baggy grey tracksuits I've ever seen ? I did chuckle at the irony (as I drove past in my asda george jeans and t-shirt! ?)

Yes, but it's not Red Nose Day every day is it ?

It's not just today. In fact I think today is unusual, in that I haven't seen some skank wandering around the shops in her grotty pjs.

I may be wrong, but I believe this "trend" started in Liverpool a few years ago. I certainly saw it there on many occasions. THe odd thing was it was certainly a fashion thing as opposed to a "i've just got up and can't be ar*ed getting dressed" thing, cos it was always accompanied by full face of make up and perfectly straightened hair/extensions!!

I was about to suggest perhaps it was in aid of comic relief but it sounds as though it's not just today you've seen them??

I can't say i've noticed anyone wandering about our town with pyjamas on so it looks like that particular fashion statement has yet to make it across the channel.

Must be a bit chilly though, I know they're wearing uggs as well but still brrrrrrr

Wasn't there a story in the papers a couple of years ago about a fat girl who got stuck in some rails or something, and they were all in pyjamas? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

It's quite a highly developed 'fashion statement' in Belfast, basically the epitome of inverted snobbery.

I believe they are collectively known as "millies".

Like Flowery G&T has some slightly track-suity PJs that get worn around the house occasionally - usually on winter sundays when we aren't going anywhere.

I think the furthest she has been in them is the bin.

I first saw this in Liverpool over 10 years ago! My boyfriend at the time (a Liverpudlian) was at pains to tell me that not everyone up there dressed like that ?

Women walking round Belfast estates in all-day pyjama gear is a phenomenon that has been well documented by Robin Livingstone, a columnist in the Andersonstown News, but until now it has been confined to the west of the city.

Mr Livingstone said that he first identified All Day Pyjama Syndrome (ADPS) in 2003. He knows a student at the Belfast Institute for Further and Higher Education who is writing a dissertation on the subject.

The women are colloquially known as “pyjama mamas” or “Millies”. Their pyjama ensembles are often complemented by large, gold hoop earrings known as “budgies” – because such cage birds could swing from them. They also sport “scrunchies” to create the “Turf Lodge facelift”, in which the hair is scraped so tightly to the back of the head that it pulls the facial skin taut.

There is even a dress hierarchy among those suffering from APDS: the wearing of silk-effect, baggy pyjamas with fluffy, mule-type slippers contrasts, for example, with the traditional dressing gown and hair rollers.

Well as a scouser I can happily say that I've never worn my pjs in public. Although as much as it pains me to admit it, soooo many people in Liverpool do. Its embarrassing and then they wonder why people laugh at take the mick out of scousers. Not to be classist, but it is the people in the 'poorer' parts of the city which seem to do it.

Knownowt, I think you're referring to a scouse child who got stuck in a manhole wearing PJ's. The funny thing about it is that when the story appeared in the local paper, not a mention of the PJ's was made. Hysterical!

Oh yes, that was it ?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1565590/Liverpool-girl-10-stuck-in-a-drain.html

? Yes, I remember that.

A quick and fruitless Google reveals that women getting stuck in things is not an uncommon phenomenon in Liverpool. ?

Yes! It was in the Liverpool Echo, I'm sure - someone posted it on here, and it was the origin of the "Liverpool Echo face" as mum and daughter were pictured looking respectively disgusted and sad ?

I thought of it yesterday, as I saw someone doing their shopping in Banbury Sainsbury's in pyjamas, fluffy slippers and make up for the first time ever. Fashions are slow to catch on up here in the sticks; the skinny jeans with boots over thing has only just happened in Banburyshire.

? loving that pic, especially the person standing on the kerb with the pjs and dressing gown clearly visible ?

Also loving that it's your new avatar ?

Well I am quite shocked that this hasn't caught on in Luton then. You'd think that it would be a prime spot for this kind of 'fashion'. How grim. Apologies to the OP for the Red Nose Day mix ip.

I wear Pj's all day but I work from home and no-one else sees me. I have special daytime jammies that I wear during the day and then I have my separate night time jammies. They are cosy and comfy but even I would draw the line at going out to the shops in them (or even to the bins) and I live on a dodgy estate where no-one would bat an eyelid.

Just thinking, perhaps for red nose day the pyjama wearing fashionistas of the world might go and do something totally radical like actually getting dressed! ?

That girl is 10 ? she really does like she's had the hard proverbial paper round then.

The other week we were out for lunch and saw a girl in PJs and slippers out in the street with her wordly goods. As we walked past a van driver slowed down and said 'Oi love, why you wearing your PJs outside?' and she just replied 'I'm waiting for a lift'. WTF?!

Drove past a primary school today where lots of small children were looking very confused to be at school in their PJs and dressing gowns (presumably in lieu of coats). Twas vay cute.

I just saw a kid on the street wearing a bathrobe as coat - I wonder if it's comic relief related?

This reminds me of when I was growing up in Hong Kong in the 80s... Chinese women (older generations) used to wear pajamas out to shop (for food mainly). I always found it curious why people did that. They wore those hideous polyester pink stuff too.

Although I think I read somewhere that some women in mainland China still does it. Sorry it's completely irrelevant to this story ?

It's a popular look in Edinburgh too - especially among the Jack Wills, preppy type students it would seem.

I saw one recently in the fish & chip shop (it's a posh fish n chip shop mm'kay?) who came in for a tub of Ben & Jerry's - she then asked for a spoon to go with it. The assistant pointed out apologetically that they only had little wooden forks, so she took one of those and wandered off up the road, in her PJs, eating Phish Food out of a brown paper bag, with a chip fork.

Pyjama wearing drain girl is called Chanelle - waaaaaaaaah *snorts*

I quite like that Jack Wills look.

There then followed a barrage of articles about how schoold had issued letters to parents in "certain" areas which advised mothers to "dress appropriately" when bringing children to school and picking up.

she is also called chanelle ?

I feel i have missed out on seeing anybody wearing pyjamas- it obviously hasnt made its way to berkshire yet

I was wondering whether anyone would come out on this thread ?

Do you wear them outside, as in taking out the rubbish or topping up the bird-feeder, or out, out, as in to the shops?

I've seen 2 girls in the local Tesco sporting the look, I stared at them for a while before realising I was being rude. I think it's a little unusual and I don't really understand why anyone would go out in nightwear.