Pyjamas as Daywear?
Dervla | December 4, 2006What is it about wearing pyjamas out and about? Is it the comfort factor? Or just pure laziness? I don’t so much notice it in town but in the suburbs I’ve seen girls standing at bus stops in pj’s and this morning on the way into work I saw a girl walking down Thomas St with her pink flannel pyjamas. I must admit I would have preferred to be in my pink pj’s at that time this morning, but in bed rather than walking down the street!
is this just a Dublin fashion craze?
Not so much a craze as a laze(?!).
It’s a real pet hate of mine and it’s especially prevalent in Ballybough and Summerhill.
Really gets on my nerves, at least have enough respect for yourself, your home and your city to put some clothes on when you walk out the door!
Have you noticed it’s only girls who do it?
That’d be pretty funny, a bunch of “hard lads� swanning about Dublin in their Thomas the Tank Engine PJs.
I remember an issue of Face magazine where they discussed this ‘style’ around Manchester.
The one thing I really loathe about this (and ehm don’t check my profile at the side before or after reading) is that every now and again the Herald does a big photo piece from a flat complex with the anchor message ‘we all know each other so well that we walk about in our pyjamas, aren’t we great). Nonsense.
I have even seen the pink fluffiness pyjama-clad women walking into Busaras at night to buy cans of coke from the vending machines. What must tourists think of it all?
Unfortunately this is not a Dublin-isolated incident, I have seen it in Cork too.
Put your bloody clothes on.
There was an article about this in the Irish Times magazine a few weeks ago along with lots of photos. The girls wearing pyjamas wear “clean, ironed” pyjamas that they have not slept in!
What is the big deal?
Are pajamas any worse that footless tights and ballet pumps. Or pink juicy couture tracksuits?
So its not just in Crumlin and Inchicore, or even Dublin for that matter! Besides the strangness it must be damn cold in them.
And the conclusion from this Irish Times articleis “There’s more freedom wearing pyjamas”.
Nope! Blackrock too as the end of this testifies…
http://ricksbreakfastblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/far-side.html
Haven’t got a clue how anyone can feel comfy in jammies in a cafe but there you have it. I am officially getting old
R
Funny that, we were only talking about this the other day.
I was in my local newsagents one morning a few months ago in East Wall and I swear to go it was like a slumber party.I think that it is a fashion thing, but within a fairly specific class of people, for want of a better expression. Some of the PJs you see around East Wall are actually quite fetching. I have yet to see any blokes start doing it – now that would be funny.
Not so sure funny is how I’d describe it, scary more like!
I live in Stoneybatter and PJ clad women are everywhere – Just yesterday I saw one pushing a trolley around Tesco’s wearing pink flannel PJ’s adorned with teddy bears, classy bird. I’ve been to a fair few European cities and I have never seen it anywhere but Dublin.
As ‘joey joe joe’ said earlier this fashion trend is contained within a fairly specific class of people – the type that live off the State and wear it as a badge of honour by not even bothering to get dressed. Really irritates me, as you can probably guess! Is it jealousy?
I’ve noticed that the chinese are “pyjama people” as well,
but have a few millenia head start on their neighbours..
They’re maybe just on a cigarette break from the sewing machine
Alex is right – it’s a welfarist “badge of honour”, proclaiming not just that the State funds their leisure time, but also that they’re staking their claim over the wider neighbourhood as an extension of their bedroom.
You have to have a grudging respect for that kind of statement!
cheers
i dont know wat the fuss is about, im friends with a group of about eight lads, nearly all of them over 20 who wear pink flannel womens pajamas to concerts, we go to dance concerts and the boys ALWAYS wear their pink pjs and the girl…we wear orange boiler suits… its just a laugh…you get some looks walking down the streets in dublin..its hillarious, everyone loves it!
WE intend to wear pyjamas in a week or two into a nightclub in London, UK and its both blokes and girls who will wear them -its called FUN. To those above who criticise – stop thinking about societies norms so much and have some f–king fun!!
I’ve seen a couple of Skangers wearing stained ones..
Christ on a bike.. if you’re wearing red and white striped pyjamas, at least take the time to check for shite or chuff marks.
Q of people behind them in the shop left a good few feet between themselves and the two flannel princesses..
A tracksuit/shell-suit will also ‘hold in’ that smoked cabbage, bitter onion-like shite-cake smell of people allergic to water, flannel will not, it celebrates that whiff.
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