Wearing Pajamas in Public

Over at Boing Boing, my pal Xeni Jardin points to a Chengdu Business Daily item that reports a.) people in Shanghai sometimes walk around in public in their pajamas, and b.) the city government is cracking down on the practice because the World Expo is coming to town next year, and they don't want everyone wandering the streets in their jammies. According to the story, some of Shanghai's residents are crying foul, deeming the mandate a civil rights violation: "Aren't education and skill more important for people than the cosmetic beauty of acceptable garments?" Now, I know some of you out there have worn pajamas in public. I know this. Of course, others of you have not. Sometimes I see what appear to be sorority girls from the local university walking the supermarket aisles in their nightwear. Personally, I don't really care, but the more style-minded among us may take offense.

Would you wear pajamas in public?

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luke15chick
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 08:46 am: [report]

in college my roommate and i used to make late night/early morning runs to Super WalMart in our pjs, but would I do it today? No.

alliem
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 08:51 am: [report]

Hahaha! I’m a student at Texas and the sorority uniform here consists of sperrys, nike shorts, and one of your sorority or fraternity t-shirts. My parents have told me so many times that it looks like I’m wearing PJs to class. Which, let’s be honest, for my 8 ams sometimes, I may sleep till 7:30 and just wear what I wore to bed to class…

spatula
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 09:22 am: [report]

Not if there is any way I could absolutely help it

mayorbubbles
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 10:59 am: [report]

i wear my pjs out all the time. more so in summer than winter. but they have to look halfway decent.

pinkwhiskey
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 11:06 am: [report]

My PJ’s double as workout close. They’re typically very un pajama like. Sweats or yoga pants/shorts. I will go to the store in them no problem.

pinkwhiskey
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 11:07 am: [report]

*meant workout clothes

C.Munro
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 11:12 am: [report]

Hell, I’ve gone to bars in my PJs.

QTKT
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 11:21 am: [report]

When I was younger and in school pjs every now and then were the norm. But once I got in the real world (aka work and grad school) that was done with. Now, it maybe happens a few times a year when either my dog or my guy wake up in the middle of the night sick and I have to hightail it to the 24 hour CVS.

LostInStars
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 11:59 am: [report]

NEVER. It doesn’t take that long to put on pants.

Just the other day though, I was out jogging with my boyfriend, and he needed something from the store so I had to go in with my workout pants on. I was deeply ashamed.

You don’t have to take 30 minutes to get super star glamorous, but you can at least put pants on.

lea322
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 12:06 pm: [report]

I have a pair of really comfortable jeans just for this purpose. They aren’t doing a lot for me in terms of style, but they look better than sweat pants.

Arsenic
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 12:10 pm: [report]

NEVER! Sorry, but it really is trashy. Late night at a 24 hour store to buy essentials when you’re deathly ill or shopping for someone who is- not so bad, we’ve all been there. But wearing your boxer-shorts and a bathrobe to lunch is gross (and yes, I have actually seen this - granted it was my college’s cafeteria, but still) and wearing your pjs to class is disrespectful.

joyy
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 12:24 pm: [report]

I used to do this in college, but I’m out of college now, so NO. I will occasionally wear my slippers out in public though.

LilMissSunshine
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 01:58 pm: [report]

I responded with only in dire emergencies. Then I remembered during a dire emergency first thing in the morning I still managed to put on jeans.

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