People walking around in their pyjamas

[Lionel Ritchie]

...is this just happening here in Limerick or is it going on everywhere/ anywhere else?

I've noticed it over the last six months or so ...people (99% women) dropping their kids off at school or creche, wandering around supermarkets, just taking a wee dander to nowhere in particular for all I know ....All done in a pyjamas/jumpsuit type get up ...often set off with slippers and completed with a Hugh Hefner style silky dressing gown.

Is the place going fcuking nuts or have I missed some new fad?

Oops move to OT please. Thought I'd backed out of Current Affairs

[BohsPartisan]

Is the place going fcuking nuts or have I missed some new fad?



A little from column A, a little from column B.
Its fairly prevelant around where I work (north inner city) in the local Spar and SuperValue. Saw one a few weeks ago wearing BIG F.O. fluffy rabbit slippers and her pj's. Never thought I'd support introducing a dress code for anything but I'd support a no pyjamas in public rule!

[Risteard]

I'd talk at the door in my dressing gown or do a quick drive in my slippers if i was dropping someone off nearby.
I often see the women in the park at about half 7 gathered at one door craving for some gossip but actually going out and about and doing your business in pyjamas is ridiculous.
I'd assumed it was a bit of a poverty thing. Women have often came into my workplace in their pjs and runners and started talking business-like about their financial business.
I think its hilarious.

[Risteard]

Very common among traveller women aswell.

[holidaysong]

I see it a lot around where I live in D1 / D3 when nipping down to the shop for something. I suppose the least they have something on!

[Risteard]

Ya, sort of thing that wouldn't bother me now at all.
Just find it funny, especially when they wear runners with them cos they obviously weren't even rushing.

[jebus]

First noticed this trend when living up near Christchurch in Dublin, but have spotted it in Cork and Limerick now. Is this a hip hop trend that we don't about or what?

[Thunderblaster]

It's done in Liverpool. Saw that over two years ago and the house I was staying in, the grandkids were brought to school by the granny in her pyjamas, and yours truly went for the spin to see them off in.................a pair of pyjamas!!:eek: :D :eek:

[Peadar]

Not sure how these fads spread but I saw an Eastern European girl in Tesco, wearing a jacket over her PJ's. She was rambling away on a mobile, while filling a trolley with groceries. I mention this because it's not as if she just ran down to get some painkillers or something, which you may be able to understand.
The local Spar near me, in northside Dublin, is always full of women/girls in their PJ's.

[ForzaWexford]

Was working in Enniscorthy on Monday + saw 5 young ones walking around in pink pyjamas at around 12 o' clcok. Not a bother on them at all. Turned out there was a travellers wedding on and they were bride + bridemaids!

Saw them going into the church about 2 hours later + the brides dress was that big there was 6 people holding it off the ground for her......the dress was literally as wide as the road.

[OneRedArmy]

Rampant in the Talbot Street area of Dublin.

I suppose if you don't have a job to go to its easy to just not bother to get dressed, but I thought central heating made pajamas a thing of the past?

[Dricky]

There was an artical in the Irish Times about mid November about the craze, as ORA pointed out Talbot st etc is swarmed with the little tikes

[BohsPartisan]

Hmmm... seems to be alot of us working in the Dublin 1/talbot st area of Dublin.
Peader you weren't by any chance in the Paddy Power on Amiens St on the last day of Cheltenham wearing a Cork City jacket?

[Peadar]

Peader you weren't by any chance in the Paddy Power on Amiens St on the last day of Cheltenham wearing a Cork City jacket?

No, I'm Dublin 7 based and am almost never in a bookies.
Actually, I was in Tully's Bookmakers in Clonakilty, wearing a Cork City polo shirt, on the last day of Cheltenham. :D

Spar at the Maple Centre on the Navan Road is a hotbed of PJ action.

[Maz]

Have been known to ramble to the shop in my pjs and even to the off licence...Its not a new fad its pure and honest laziness on my behalf

[Peadar]

Na Maz, this is a fad. There's women and young girls walking around the place in their PJs. They're all at it in Dublin.

[Risteard]

Good girl Maz(it is girl right?).
Heroic.
Anything where people decide "Ah i don't give a crap what I look like" is heroic.
Although maybe i'm just saying that cos I'm an ugle ****er.:( :cool: :D
Beats those people who get dolled up to go to the shop anyway.

[Risteard]

I'd say its not a fad.
In fact I'd say it's more of an 80s poverty/ possibly rural thing.

[BohsPartisan]

Its not a new fad its pure and honest laziness on my behalf

Yeah but a lot of these girls look like they've spent ages doing their hair and make up before going out.

[Maz]

Good girl Maz(it is girl right?).
Heroic.
Anything where people decide "Ah i don't give a crap what I look like" is heroic.
Although maybe i'm just saying that cos I'm an ugle ****er.:( :cool: :D
Beats those people who get dolled up to go to the shop anyway.
Girl is right Risteard! Heroic? No. Lazy? Yes. Bothered? No.

Cant speak for everyone but to be honest I'd only do it here in Maynooth and not when Im at home.

[Maz]

Yeah but a lot of these girls look like they've spent ages doing their hair and make up before going out.
Oh no thats definately not me. I have the just got out of bed look down to a fine art! :p

[Risteard]

Yeah but a lot of these girls look like they've spent ages doing their hair and make up before going out.

Really?
Now thats completely different.
Maybe they're halfway through.

[Lionel Ritchie]

I'd say its not a fad.
In fact I'd say it's more of an 80s poverty/ possibly rural thing.

At a risk of over doing the pop-sociology I'm beginning to incline to agree.
Even a scan of the addresses involved suggests this ..erm ...phenomenon is largely played out in areas of socio-economic deprivation and stagnation.

Could it be a frothy manifestation of a burgeoning new social underclass and their disenchantment with the society from which they've largely de-coupled? :(

Or am I just blowing it out my ass? :D

[Roadend]

At a risk of over doing the pop-sociology I'm beginning to incline to agree.
Even a scan of the addresses involved suggests this ..erm ...phenomenon is largely played out in areas of socio-economic deprivation and stagnation.



I've seen it a few times this week at that shop in Kileely where Susan's used to be passing on the way home, so I'd say its in line with you're assessment.

[Over the post]

Rampant in the Talbot Street area of Dublin.

I suppose if you don't have a job to go to its easy to just not bother to get dressed, but I thought central heating made pajamas a thing of the past?

Me too; I haven't worn PJs since I was about seven. Mind you, I remember the missus throwing a long coat on over her pijamas to nip out for fags back in the days.

[Anto McC]

It's one thing for someone to be lazy and not get changed to pop down the shop but it's another to go shopping in your PJ's. Yes,i've actually seen a few young girls browse through shops on Henry st in their PJ's and it's actually so common that some shops on Henry st have put up signs saying people wearing PJ's will not be admitted.
On the bus only this morning 3 young girls wearing PJ bottoms under their school skirts.

[cheifo]

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[Risteard]

I'd love to see that sign.


On the bus only this morning 3 young girls wearing PJ bottoms under their school skirts.
Serious?
Do they wait until they're just outside the classroom to put them on.
They sound nuts.
Were they down the back playing loud unrecognisable dance music on their phones?

[Anto McC]

Serious?

Very


Were they down the back playing loud unrecognisable dance music on their phones?

Yes they were actually,at first i thought someone was strangling a smurf.

[Ash]

Maybe they're all in training for National Pyjama Day (http://www.makeawish.ie/)

(Just seen a card on a work colleagues desk about it!)

[Peadar]

Walking back from the game last night, turned off Parnell St., heading for Cathal Brugha St., and saw two seperate instances of "mature" women wearing PJ's.

[Dricky]

From ireland.com.... pity the photo's aren't there, as cool as they are trying to sound the photos help paint a different picture.

Pyjamas - once reserved for nightwear only - have come out of the bedroom and are walking down a street near you. Our under-the-covers reporter Róisín Ingle meets the PJs generation.

Most of us have done it. Too lazy to get dressed, you throw your overcoat over your pyjamas, nip out for the paper and run home before the neighbours spot you in your slippers. Recently, though, wearing pyjamas outdoors has ceased to be an activity cloaked in shame. In fact, in certain pockets of Dublin these days, you'd feel more out of place with your regular clothes on than you would in your jim-jams.

Welcome to the world of the PJ generation. Where I live, on the North Strand in Dublin, the community is divided between those who do and those who don't. And just in case you thought this was a purely working-class phenomonon, even Miriam O'Callaghan, the broadcaster, has been spotted in her slippers popping over to the local newsagent in her leafy Dublin suburb.

When a girl in fluffy blue pyjamas served me in the chipper the other day I couldn't help grilling her about the phenomenon. Our conversation led to a fashion shoot with 18-year-old Edel Sheridan and two pyjama-wearing buddies, 18-year-old Donna Molyneux and 19-year-old Melissa Thompson.

The sleepwear-as-daywear trend is thought to have begun in the council estates of Liverpool at the beginning of the noughties (though there were sightings around Dublin before that), when pyjamas took over from tracksuits as the leisurewear of choice. Now you can spot women in their pyjamas all over that city. They have even acquired an uncomplimentary (and slightly tortuous) acronym, Yuans, for young, unwashed and no sense.

"That's disgraceful," says Molyneux, who is currently unemployed but would like to be a lawyer or a hairdresser. "I never go out in dirty pyjamas. I wake up in one pair, then get a fresh pair and iron them. Later on in the day I might change into another pair of clean pyjamas, and then put a different pair on going to bed. I would never go out the door in dirty pyjamas that weren't ironed. You'd look like a crinkled tea bag."

Sheridan, who works in a local chipper part-time, and Thompson, a trainee beautician from Sheriff Street, reckon they own about 100 pairs of pyjamas between them. "I like the ones from Penneys the best, but I have a few from Dunnes Stores," says Sheridan. "They are just really comfortable. There's more freedom wearing pyjamas. Sometimes my fiance might give out to me, saying, Would you ever get dressed? But I don't care. I love my pyjamas."

Thompson started socialising in her pyjamas when she was 15 and always makes sure they are freshly pressed. "I didn't go far at first, but then I got more confidence, and now I'd go to the bank or the shops or to visit friends. I wouldn't go into town, though. That would be embarrassing," she says. "Where we live there isn't much to get dressed for, so I suppose that's why we don't bother."

The stylist for this shoot, Jan Brierton, says she has noticed that most department stores have expanded their sleepwear ranges and that most of them now include clothes that could easily cross from night to day.

The teenagers say they sometimes get funny looks from "people driving past in fancy cars", but it doesn't deter them. "I think if they stopped worrying about what people think and realised how comfy it is to wear pyjamas all day, more people might do it," says Thompson.

[Erstwhile Bóz]

Sure the Herag had an article three or four years ago about girls from Hardwicke Street and Fitzgibbon Street each claiming to be first to start the new trend. Don't think it's any older than that, though.

By the way, Róisín Ingle needs to be strangled slowly with the cord from a pair of pyjamas.

[Babysis]

Saw it for the first time in Dublin, but I see it in London now all the time. Woman this morning strolling down the cally road in her Jacket and Pyjama bottoms!!
If its not that its lads thinking it looks great to walk round with their hand shoved down the front of their baggy trousers/tracky bottoms, playing the whole rude boy bit! :eek: does my head in :mad:

[Monkfish]

I've seen it a few times this week at that shop in Kileely where Susan's used to be passing on the way home, so I'd say its in line with you're assessment.

Stand out side the bookies in the Moyross S.C. and you'll see them in all their glory!

[Magicme]

Jesus, I am far from vain & can be really lazy, but despite the fact that I usually wear trackie bottoms & a t-shirt on cold nites going to bed, I wouldnt go to the shop in them. In fact have only once dropped the kids to school in such attire coz was too sick to get dressed!

On warmer nites I prefer to wear nothing so defo not goin out in my "nightwear" coz dont want to scare the local population!