Shopping in your p.j.s

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

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!

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.

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?

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 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

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....

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

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!

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 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.

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.

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

And beer

I love my fake Uggs - they're comfy, warm and safe in icy conditions. Not overly stylish, I grant you...

Would love some real ones maggie..oh so expensive

I never notice what customers are wearing in supermarkets, but I suppose that means that they are never clad in anything outlandish!

I've just been looking at the online sale prices, downtoearth. Ouch

I can dream * maggie*

I worn Uggs in Norway to see the Northern Lights; no socks in minus temps. very warm feet. For most of the year in the UK they are just too warm. Useful after swimming or the gym to slob home in. My OH hates them and says he can hear me shuffling like a weary duck, miles off.

I've seen a spate recently of young ladies going out with their rollers in, and sometimes in Pjs too
The rollers, I rather like. With the big false lashes and the bright rollers it looks quite glamourous!
My PJs are the kind bought for comfort, and kept for years for that reason - certainly not fit to be shown in public.

If people want to shop in their PJs that is up to them.
But they can't control what other people think about it and them when they do so.

Is 'travelling community" the same as being a Gypsie? We had Gypsies when I was growing up in the UK. Pyjamas in the supermarket hasn't caught on in NZ, there are some very pongy people about though!

Why are we only discussing women shopping in their pyjamas? Are any men following this trend and if so why are we not hearing about them? If they aren't, why not? Do any of these pj clad women have men shopping with them and what are they wearing?

Is this a gender issue?