Shopping in your p.j.s

We have a traveller community not far from where I live and a tesco on my doorstep virtually..mum and daughters all in grubby pj's and grubbier dressing gowns..all with those fake ugg boots.....having said that all are very polite when you say morning and will exchange pleasantries with you...they are all like peas in a pod and beautiful girls,mum and dad very strict with them and you never hear of any trouble with them.My son works permanent nights in Tesco Extra in another town says people shop all the time in pj's...or just pop in for milk bread fags and condoms

Sorry, I should have said the reason I mentioned the young women being from the travelling community is because according to the DM report, they feel they're being victimised because of racism.

The two young women photographed in Salford's Tesco have now been identified. According to the DM on line, they are from the travelling community. Their main home is Nottingham but they were visiting Salford. One of the young women complains she only has to get dressed up and put make up on to impress her husband, not some random bloke in Tesco.

I agree with Ana - it isn't laziness, though it feels like that. It's some kind of fashion statement. I also think it's a rebellion against us old duds who find it lazy, offensive and imo, slightly dangerous to hang out in your pj's.

It does so much depend on the night clothes. As has been pointed out, a onesie or flannelette jim-jams with a big fluffy dressing gown is more decent in the covered up sense than a bloke with a beer gut, Bermuda shorts and flip-flops or a woman with too-tight, too small mini shorts and a vest top with no bra, especially if she really needs one! And as for those lads who insist on wearing outsize trousers with the waistband at the thigh and the crotch at the knee....

If its a fashion statement then really they've ceased to be night attire in the accepted sense as they've probably never been slept in.

The only place I have seen young women shopping in nightwear/leisure wear was our local Waitrose I think that it is a fashion statement for most. The press pics and young women I saw were perfectly groomed: hair and make up etc. For many it is a deliberate action not just a "oh buggr I need some milk for breakfast but I'm not dressed' moment!

Waitrose will change their tune when their customers, disgusted by the slovenliness of others, boycott their shops.

WHY is it "disgusting"to go out in the morning without washing? If they bathed before they went to bed 10-12 hours previously.. went to be , got up and went out ..why are they disgusting..sorry I do not get it? Over focus on unnecessary ablutions! I gues if they spen all night having hot sex they may need a shower but if they just slept....

I assume these people have not washed prior to going out and these pjs must have been worn the night before just disgusting to go unwashed and sets a very bad example to children. I do hope the wash the children and dress them in clean clothes for school

I don't think it's a matter of low self-esteem at all. Among some young people it seems to be fashionable to go shopping in nightclothes - not just to the supermarket but in shopping centres etc.

They really don't care what we oldies think!

I think a lot of it is a lack of self-esteem IMO, and at the other end of the spectrum are those .. thinking the Kardashians now... who never venture out unless they are photo-shoot ready. Do they, and their like, acerbate this condition? Personally, I think vacuous celebs such as inhabit the right-hand column of the Daily Wail are contributing to this in a back handed sort of way.
I don't know which are worse... the 'slobby mums' or the 'celeb mums' (who can spot a paparazzo at 200 yards.)
Anyone remember Cherie Blair caught in her dressing gown bringing the milk in off the doorstep, bleary eyed and probably hungover after Labour had won the 1997 election?

You see people on my estate going out everyday to pick up their bits and pieces of shopping in PJs and slippers and I'll be honest - it strikes me as alipshod and lazy.

Aldi? Must have missed that, Jalima! But no, I don't want to see topless men in supermarkets, and certainly not those huge hairy legs in short shorts and flip-flops!

ElaineRI55 Those were my initial thoughts, it's people already who feel they are at the bottom of the heap with no chance of improving their lot.
Is relative poverty an issue.?
Calm down nelliem

I am quite surprised by how horrified I am about this. I must be turning into a really miserable judgemental old git.

I can't help feeling this is the slippery slope to being a slob.

If you have to go out to work you get dressed at least appropriately, going to do your shopping is the same.
I might on an odd occasion wear my PJs under trousers but its just a big NO from me.

It appears to me to show a total lack of self esteem and I worry that it does somehow make people feel that they need not bother about anything like work, or organising the home, or the children etc.
I do wonder about the demographics of the supermarket PJ shoppers.
Now I need to calm down over this there are far worse things in this world.

I think it was men wandering around Aldi topless Ana - at least I am presuming so

Yes, but a male instructor isn't allowed to say that about a semi-clad young woman these days...double standards.

If i were that female driving instructor it would make my day!

It was quite cold yesterday but up at the cathedral there was a man in a vest,and trackiebums wandering about . I did wonder if he thought there was a clothing bank up there as he was quite grubby( I didn't stare but did a double take as I wondered if he should be offered something warm) here did look inappropriate for the time of the year.
On a personal level I wouldn't dream of wearing my gorgeous silk velvet dressing gown with brocade collar and cuffs and my silk night dress in Tescos ,Waitrose or Harrods! I save them for the perfumed boudoir. Distinctly more prosaic clothes shopping in Tesco.

My husband has a very expensive leisure suit (tracksuit of old) which he wears all the time. Our daughter and I think it looks like pyjamas but definitely not. i have managed to persuade him not to go out in it.

All these posts are about women though, aren't they?

I know young men don't wear striped pjs any more, but if they did, and wandered round Tesco in them, what would the reaction be?

What would a female driving instructor's reaction have been if one of her pupils had 'slid into the driving seat' wearing nothing but a pair of speedos?

Manners used to be about knowing which knife and fork to use....now it's about telling people that they should really get dressed before they go out the front door.

I bet he did know where to look! even if embarrassed.

at judyparks post

There was a phone in on my local radio station on this very subject yesterday. A driving instructor called and said it was not unusual to pick up young ladies early in the morning for a lesson who were still in their PJs. He said he had become quite used to it now. The one that did surprise him was the a very attractive pupil who slid into the driving seat sporting a very brief bikini. Poor chap said he didn't know where to look. ?