PYJAMAS!!!! NOOOOOOOO!

[sparkindarkness]

Ok, so  apparently a school has decided to chastise parents for going on the school run delivering or picking up their kids dressed in pyjamas. This follows a Tescos’ shop in Cardiff banning customers for also wearing pyjamas

My initial reaction is “do people do this?” I mean I just can’t picture running around outside in my nightclothes (ok,

Comments

[pujaemuss]

The whole walking around in pyjamas thing baffles me too. I'd recommend not walking around in pyjamas because you look vaguely silly, rather than because it's unsuitable for anything. It'd be like going into a McDonalds in a tuxedo; just the wrong clothing for the wrong place.

PJW

[sparkindarkness]

Aye uit's certainly silly and unsuitable - I just don't get why it's ZOMG so awful rather than a "giggle look at them!"

[elrohana]

I remember calling in to a very large Tesco store we normally wouldn't visit, on the way home from somewhere or other, one Sunday morning. As we headed from the car to the store, shuffling across the car park was a wild-haired elderly lady in a nightdress, dressing gown, and fluffy slippers. She looked vague and confused, so we assumed she was a dementia sufferer. Tescos security fetched her indoors as we were wondering what to do, so I guess it was a regular occurrence

[suryaofvulcan]

I don't give a shit what people wear as long as I don't have to look at unlovely bits of their anatomy ...

So clothing-policing is wrong, but you're up for a bit of body-policing?

See, as a disabled person, I have a problem with this. Many of us have scars, other disfigurements and deformities which make our bodies 'unlovely'. Many of us get stared at, abused, and asked intrusive personal questions about them. And many of us still wear them with pride.

My 'unlovely' body might offend your delicate sensibilities, but I refuse to hide it from you.

[elrohana]

That's your right, its a free country. I would never stare at you, make remarks to you, or any any way let you know if I find you 'unlovely', and I don't think anyone else should either. Howevert if I find my own rolls of flab, stretch marks, and saggy arse repulsive to look at, I don't see why I should find them attractive on anyone else.

[suryaofvulcan]

I never said you should. I know most people would not find my body beautiful.

Look again at what you said: "as long as I don't have to look at unlovely bits of their anatomy ..."

What you said here is that those of us who have 'unlovely' bodies should hide them from your gaze.

Can you see what I'm getting at? Can you see how that's ableist?

Now I realise that might not be what you meant to say, but I can't get inside your head. I have to challenge what you actually said.

[addisonalbright]

Ha! Well, I wouldn't go walking around in PJs, but I have made the school run in them in the past. Understand that this was full flannel pajamas with a long raincoat over the top without needing to get out of the car. I did stop doing this after the car got rear-ended on the way home from one such trip, and I was stuck on the side of the road dealing with the police, etc. in my pajamas. :-(

[sparkindarkness]

hee that's why i'd flinch at it - sure if everything goes fine it works - but if it doesn't?

[lydiabell]

Maybe it's because I live in a college town, but I don't think twice about, for instance, seeing someone make a late-night grocery run in pajama pants and a T-shirt. I've done it myself a few times.

[sparkindarkness]

I'd probably blink and double take - then move on. Because, really, pyjamas? Not important :)

[klgaffney]

...srsly? all the moms around here drop kids off in our flannel and fleece pj pants all the time, or wear them while running in to the convenience or drug or grocery store, and i see teenage and college age girls running errands in them all the time. there was a girl in pink pj pants at the michael's craft store today. what's the big deal? i don't see how they're any different than sweatpants, they just have patterns on them. why NOT wear them out? they're cute, they're warm, and not to mention half of those pj outfits can get rather pricey, last i looked. what, women have to be dressed to the nines whenever we step outside now? should i never be seen without my make up, high heels and pearls? screw that.

and since those parents aren't in school anymore? i think they can wear whatever they damn well please. that school would get a nasty chastising letter right back.

[sparkindarkness]

It is rather a rarity to see people wandering around in their pyjamas here - I'd be boggled to see it :) But really - they cover what we generally assume needs to be covered why do these people care?

So very yes - I mean, doesn';t the damn school have anything better to worry about?!

[klgaffney]

*laughing* uhoh, are we being a bad influence? i admit, someone wandering around in a nightie and bathrobe and slippers might get interesting looks, but the fuzzy flannel pants are pretty common.

maybe it's such an AWESOME school it doesn't have anything better to worry about. *laughing!* but i really, really doubt that. experience has found that schools that are that hung up on appearances are not the best of places to attend. (my very liberal elitist high school had a kid that declared himself a monk and showed up in a robe and flip flops every day. he was a genius, he was happy, his grades were good, so nobody minded. they were accustomed to dealing with many, many eccentric kids, me included.)

[sparkindarkness]

I'm usually the bad influence :) It's a refreshing change.

Tbh the fuzzy trousders? How cna you even TELL they're pyjamas if it weren't for preconceptions? They're trousers. A trouser is a trouser is a trouser.

I doubt it. And maybe I could give it something to worry about :)

They're more concerned with perceptions and apparent standards than actual achievement and helping and teaching.