Ever go shopping in your pajamas?
By adamg - 10/25/09 - 8:40 am
Rick doesn't get it:
... A couple of weeks ago at Stop & Shop there was a girl - probably in her early twenties - that literally looked as if she rolled out of bed, drove herself to the grocery store and began her shopping. Perhaps it was to just pick up a few things. Regardless, slippers (however shoe-like they look), Simpsons' lounge pants, an oversized sweatshirt and hair tucked up under a baseball cap are an ensemble that are not to leave the house. On a Tuesday morning, I have a hard enough time going to the curb to add my empty bottle of water to the recycling bin let alone go out and do my food shopping. ...
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Obviously she has not been
Obviously she has not been on a college campus for a while. I remember people showing up to classes in this sort of set up.
Yep
Well, college campuses that aren't in a major city, anyway. I don't think a lot of, say, BU students are wandering around taking the green line to class with pajama pants on, though I could be wrong. Definitely very common in colleges that are in college towns.
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I work close enough to
I work close enough to Suffolk to see kids strolling around. With the possible exception of wearing flip-flops instead of slippers, they do in fact wear this out on the street, though more commonly with sweatpants instead of pajama pants. I see pajama pants sometimes though.
Ah, so they do!
(BTW, I'm long out of college, but I love those Old Navy "loungewear" pants that are pretty much thin sweats and/or street-appropriate pajama pants. I'll totally go to the store in those.)
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Indeed
You see a fair amount of this in Allston of a Sunday morning. Plenty of PJ-clad undergrads shopping in the Packards Corner Star.
According to the Globe, a trend from a few years back
I remember a story in the Globe a few years back The Slept in Look that discussed the "trend" of pajama look for young women. (like most newspaper trend stories, especially fashion trend stories; little information on how infrequently it was before, how frequent it is now, or how much more frequent it is expected in the future.)
The quote that has always stood out in my mind from that story was: "It takes work to look like you rolled out of bed instantly fabulous. Schiffer knows it's no accident."
well..
Once I forgot to put up the top of my aging Pontiac and went out to do it at midnight wearing my robe
I think its because
people in Boston are so unattractive that they just completely give up and figure what the hell.
Its certainly a look you don't see in other cities where people actually have style and know how to dress.
Nope, not true. Get out
Nope, not true. Get out more. I went to college in California and everyone wore pajamas to places like classes, stores, and restaurants near campus.
I was wearing sweats to
Pssh, I was wearing sweats to college classes a decade ago. This is hardly new. Even 4 or 5 years ago, I would go out in my Guinness pants, these men's pajama pants I have, to run to the Store 12 or Stop & Shop in Southie .
This is as bad as one of those fluff pieces in the Globe magazine. Oh, people don't conform to the grooming standards that I choose to! Woe! Who cares?
And by the by, the girl was probably just wearing Uggs, not slippers. I'm no Ugg fan, but they are, technically, shoes.
Who cares?
So long as basic standards of hygiene and coverage are met, I don't think it is the least bit of my business what somebody else wears.
Rick changes clothing more times in a day than most barbie dolls at a 8 year old's sleep over. That's his choice. Otherwise, he should just shut up. Maybe he could use all that free time he has to change clothes 20 times a day to go back in time and have a hemorrhage about women wearing curlers, scarves, floral housecoats and flip flops to the grocery store. I remember that going on all the time as a kid. I'd rather look at sweats and jammies.
I never understood the
I never understood the middle aged/older woman in curlers thing anyway. I had a relative that always had curlers in her hair, I do not think I ever saw her without them...
This isn't new or just in
This isn't new or just in Boston. People were doing this around the colleges I attended outside of San Francisco 10 years ago. I was never big on the PJ-pants in public thing, but a pair of comfy lounge pants to go to class or the store or the 24-hour Denny's that was near campus? Bring 'em on.