Pyjamas: how soon is too soon?

pajamas after work feels like giving up on life

yeah, that's depressing. you live alone?

You all must go home to crazytown, or maybe you just don't dress up for the daytime. When I get home from work I've had something tight around my waist since probably 8am, plus bra straps falling and being one more thing I have to feel not staying in place quite right, plus possibly heels or other lady shoes... That all to say I am sure as fuck putting my pajamas on unless I expect company. And sometimes even then.

Maybe if I were wearing sneakers and and a hoodie and loose-fitting jeans to work, that'd be different. Which some people I know do (AHEM VIC AHEM).

I live alone. But I know loads of girlies who do this and do not live alone, although I suspect their partners give them looks of disgust and/or resignation occasionally.

something tight around my waist since probably 8am

Exactly. I don't care about the bra straps or even the lady shoes, but I'm an apple shape and this is the killer.

i haven't worn pyjamas since high school, on the rare occasions when i wear dressy & uncomfortable clothes to work or some function i just change into my "street clothes" when i get home

Also my office and my home could be vastly different temperatures as my home is neither heated nor air-conditioned, so whatever I wear to work will not do back at the ranch.

I wear dressy clothes mostly every day, they're not vastly uncomfortable but they do change my posture, my walk, the way I can sit down (legs crossed), and so on. When I take them off, my leisure time starts.

Yeah, what Laurel said. If not pajamas, at least, like, sweats or lounge pants or something and a t-shirt. If I've been in "office casual" all day I don't want that shit on when I get home. It's uncomfortable. A lot of times I go to the gym from work, too, so when I get home, it's out of the sweaty clothes and into something comfortable.

Basically, unless I'm out of the house or expecting company, I'm in "maybe not pajamas but I could definitely sleep in these" clothes.

although I suspect their partners give them looks of disgust and/or resignation occasionally

Ha! One step closer to the bedroom is what I would think.

Laurel basically OTM.

Erm, am I spelling it wrong, btw?

I was going to say, none of my exes have ever complained about bralessness or hurried undressing and changing into things that don't have fasteners.

ljubljana, one is British and the other American, methinks.

lol, i never heard the term "lounge pants" before. gis results are kinda scary.

Maybe "yoga pants" is a better description.

Although for warmer weather I do love old-fashioned house dresses, like with pockets and zippers. I need the pockets, for putting my cigarettes and cell phone in as I pad around the loft.

This is kind of my dream:

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I've been in pyjamas for 3 days now. ^_^

Same... pair?

one of the best things when i went to china last month was seeing the old men on the streets wearing their pajamas. couple good pictures here http://www.guariglia-chen.com/planet-shanghai/

love old-fashioned house dresses

when i think back to my favorite moments with one particular ex i always think of the two of us in the apartment, her in a house dress, us cooking and hanging out. 100x better than PJs.

Yeah my wife does this shit. she loves pyjamas. pyjamas to me are some kind of resignation, sorry

i always think of the two of us in the apartment, her in a house dress, us cooking and hanging out. 100x better than PJs.

You mention no clothes for yourself, so I presume you were naked.

I hate business casual with the burning intesity of a thousand suns. When I go back to my office after seeing my last patient, it's into the jeans and tennies.

I part of me feels like pajamas right when I get home is a bit if a resignation, so I'll usually just put on jeans. If I arrive home after 9pm, I jump straight in pjs. It's like booze before noon five in that respect.

i don't own pajamas/sleepwear since i hate wearing stuff to bed; in summer i hang out in my underwear, and in winter i have this enormous polar fleece robe (in leopard print!) that i live in. i predict a slanket in my future, before the start of my first american winter.

What's a slanket? I'm intriuged. Where in the US will you be living?

Never too soon! If I could get away with working in them, I would. If I thought I could both drive home and change w/o crashing, I would.

"You all must go home to crazytown, or maybe you just don't dress up for the daytime. When I get home from work I've had something tight around my waist since probably 8am, plus bra straps falling and being one more thing I have to feel not staying in place quite right, plus possibly heels or other lady shoes... That all to say I am sure as fuck putting my pajamas on unless I expect company. And sometimes even then" ...AND.. "Also my office and my home could be vastly different temperatures as my home is neither heated nor air-conditioned, so whatever I wear to work will not do back at the ranch. ...AND... "I wear dressy clothes mostly every day, they're not vastly uncomfortable but they do change my posture, my walk, the way I can sit down (legs crossed), and so on. When I take them off, my leisure time starts"
-- Laurel

Laurel, you are absolutely quoting my sentiment on the matter. The first thing I do when I walk in the door from work is strip off all clothes and put on comfy night wear. I have it in varying degrees of "style" tho. I have my very fav ratty ass warm long Lanz nightie, I have short lite cotton "babydoll" PJs, I have sweats that are comfy too as my office is usually ICE cold (today it's 68 degrees in my office and I went out at lunch and it's about 80 degrees)so change is needed not just for slob comfort but climate adjustment too. I have my dressy & slinky negligee set and set of "lounging" PJs that are actually designed for entertaining. It used to be quite the thing for a party hostess to wear a snappy lounging set!

i don't wear pajamas, but i'm generally taking the suit off unless i'm going back out somewhere other than the gym

Mornings though, I want to be in proper clothes asap or I feel hassled and behind, even on the weekend.

yea in the summer, you have to get comfy when you get home, i mean come on

I dont own any proper 'jamas, but I'm always into the trackydax and tshirt as soon as I get home for all the reasons upthread: tight pants, crappy shoes etc I just want to get out of, and slob on the couch with a glass of wine and a dvd.

I'm glad its casual friday today so I'm at least in jeans and a stripey top at work which isnt so bad.

When I first read this question I did think 'why the hell would you wear pyjamas as soon as you get home from work?', but after reading the multiple explanations then actually I can totally see it (and it brings home my luck at still managing to be a student and not wear shitty office clothes, heh).

The first thing I do when I get home is change. I often do the yoga pants/t shirt thing but i have couple awesome house dresses that I LOVE. I wear those more often these days. In the winter I will ocasionally just straight into flannel PJs. If it's dark, cold, and snowy out why the hell not?

Putting on pyjamas really early reminds me of Sundays when I was a kid, when we as a family would go out all day for walks in Wales and then get home about 5pm or so, and my sister and I would end up having baths and getting changed into pyjamas before tea.

ljubljana , you're working too late is the problem!

Anyway jimjams are hot because (not to put too finer point on it) you're nakkid under them right? Which is hot. Amirite or amirite?

Me - in my pyjamas yesterday...
http://images.figleaves.com/product/220x308/r579697-p579710-front.jpg

i guess this depends on whether you have to dress up for work or not. most of my jobs have not required any kind of corporate uniform so i go to work in comfortable clothes and when i get home, i'm feeling fine. i can sort of relate to you pajamists tho due to 12 years of catholic school - i ditched the tie and button down shirt and dress shoes when i got home, but i just changed into jeans & t-shirt. i guess i don't really get the whole pajama thing, i sleep in boxers and maybe a t-shirt, and walking around the house like that seems kinda lame (except on hangover days)or like you're some shut-in/agoraphobic

Pancakes said all I need to say on the subject. Does everyone who changes into pyjamas sleep in pyjamas?

I don't change into pajamas, I change into HOUSE PANTS, and let me be clear that they are gateway pants. One pair lead to another cosier pair for snoozing in.

House pants represent victory over the working day. All hail house pants!

Nah, I don't actually sleep in my house clothes. Mostly because my house is kind of dirty, and I sit on grotty old sofas in them, and ash on them and wipe my hands on them while eating (if no one's looking) and I don't want the detritus in my clean bed.

I spent a year living in a small dormitory of east asians and western europeans, and it was really noticeable how all of the Chinese and Korean girls had house-clothes they'd change into as soon as they got back - either yogapants type or supercute frilly loose stuff - whereas the Euros would just flump down in whatever they had on. I kind of suspect that the people who wore houseclothes made more effort when they actually dressed to leave the house.

Pyjamas during daytime reminds me of art school days, so, erm, classic actually. Especially mad paisley old man pyjamas. (I don't actually have any of these any more! This is terrible and must be addressed!)

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if you wear house clothes it's more of an effort to leave the house in the first place (esp if it is eg raining, or you are leaving the house to go for a run) b/c you need to change out of yr tracksuit bottoms or whatever. i always wear those or shorts in the house, i don't wear particularly smart work clothes but jeans &c are still too heavy to bum around the house in

before the start of my first american winter.

-- Rubyredd, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:18 (13 hours ago) Link

aren't you in the bay area? i'm pretty sure they don't have winter there.

It gets into the 40's here in winter and it's none too warm right now.

i can sort of relate to you pajamists tho due to 12 years of catholic school

I suspect this is part of the reason I do it too. I spent so many years changing out of my uniform or nice school clothes (before catholic HS) that it's sort of a habit.

Like lex though I tend to do this even if I'm just wearing jeans because any of my house clothes are a lot more comfortable to bum around in than jeans are!

there was a time when living in these was my dream:

http://images.skymall.com/images/products/21/1c/06/102506893x.jpg