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I have just been reading in the paper about a headteacher who felt she had to send a letter home to all the parents due to the number of them dropping off and collecting their children from school wearing pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers. Not only are they showing up at the school gates but also to Christmas shows and parents evenings dressed in night attire.

The parents who dress this way have now taken umbrage and are claiming the headteacher dresses too well for school and will continue to dress in night attire no matter what example it sets.

What do others think? Would anyone be brave enough to do it?

We were in Morrison's and an old lady was shopping in her nightie
I often see Mums dropping their kids off at school in their PJs

I would always get dressed in my day clothes
before taking baby Satan to school
As I wouldn't want to show him up :-D

Brave enough to tell the mums they should buck up, or brave enough to have a go at the head for dressing too well? :-)

no one would dress like that round this neighbourhood as the local psychiatric hospital is just across the road and anyone seen out in night clothes is assumed to be from the hospital and promptly taken back there!!!

I wouldn't be brave enough to drop off a child in my nightwear.

I certainly wouldn't drop off a child in my nightwear...there's no room :-D :-D :-D :-D

I definitely wouldn't drop a child off in my nightwear - I sleep naked :-0

I also have 'inside' clothes (old and comfy, crocs, minus bra) and 'proper' (newer, but still comfy, with nice shoes/boots, and includes a bra) clothes.
I never venture further than my garden in my 'inside' clothes :-D

I would often see a lady walking up our road to the local shop dressed in what looked her long nighty with a slightly shorter coat over it . It looked so obvious she was in her nighty that I felt a WHAT !!! and she ain't fooling anyone

See her later still wearing th same coat but without the longer dress !! showing

One time too I was getting the Sunday papers at about 9.30am and a young lady drew up in her car outside the shop and was obviously in her nighty and dressing gown and slippers and she came in the shop and bought newspapers and milk and bread and was quite unworried about her dress. I thought blimey that's not on even though she was dressed it didn't seem right

What an example to set to their children. Why can't they put on a track suit/leisure suit if they want to 'dress down'. I think the headmistress was right.

That is just lazy in my view....I don't even like answering the door in my dressing gown.
Not sure I like the modern laid back attitude....but then again I am ancient!!
The headmistress is right....there are rules...as Ann says...compromise and slip on a track suit if you've been rushed,but PJs and slippers..!... :-S

I don't like seeing it ...............


but over here (I don't know about the UK), they do sell "leisure pants" that look like pyjama trousers

they're supposed to be as comfortable as pjs, made of flannel, similar patterns etc, but to be worn in the daytime.


we even see kids going to school in them ......... especially high school kids who ignore mother's "advice" to dress properly.

I've never seen it..

Although I do have to confess that I have taken our collie into the field wearing pj's, welly boots and big, waxed jacket :-0 :-0

I don't encounter anybody and it is our own field :-P

Its one thing to open the car door so the child to get out if you've been running late, but quite another if you need to escort them into the school/playground.

As it so easy to pull loose sweat-suit bottoms & tops on, habitual offenders are just lazy!

As regards the elderly lady shopping in the supermarket - when he was developing dementia my dad used to go out in his PJs with a coat on. His arguement, apart from that it was more comfortable, was that ladies wore vests so what was wrong with PJs? He failed to accept that the 'vests' were T shirts. It caused no end of arguements. If he had his way, he wouldnt even have bothered with clothes. :-0

There are quite a few young mothers around here who venture as far as the corner shop or school playground in dressing gowns or onesies.

I think it looks terrible.

Like maggiewinchester I, too, have inside clothes which are very old, baggy trousers and tops that are very comfortable to sit around or work in but I wouldn't be seen dead outside in them - and as for nightclothes, I think I would frighten the horses!!

Kath. x

I'm like Kath and maggie .......... I have indoor comfortable old clothes and outside clothes


I love having a "slob" day, when I don't have to go out and no-one is expected so that I can "slob" around in my very comfortable inside garb :-D

One of these years.........

I'd like to open a morning coffee shop/wine bar/cafe, just for mothers in their pyjamas!

<3


With a soundproof creche :-)

Good for that Head teacher. Teaching begins in the home - parents have a responsibility to set their children a good example. Going out of doors in PJs is neither acceptable nor trendy - it's a sign that standards are slipping.

However, I have double standards in a way. Many moons ago, I picked up our then teenage son from a party held in a pub. It was late at night and I was ready for bed and I didn't need to get out of the car. On the way home, we were stopped by the police as they had seen me emerge from a pub car park. Not sure if I was over the speed limit or what, but when they noticed my night attire.......I was shoo'ed on my way. :-D

Hot mums only! ;-) ;-)

remember a (American) film from maybe the '60's where this was featured, and yep the mums, did have a bit of a set to


what's the word???


Slovenly? or summat.........???

If the Mothers have no pride in their appearance I wonder if the children will?

We do see this here and it makes me cringe :-( but I have seen the same in the nicer London postcodes where Mums drive their Chelsea tractors dressed in their nightwear.