so… are you wearing your jammies to the speech?
I wouldn’t wear pajamas outside of the unenflamed walls of my home. I would not wear sweatpants to rake leaves in my yard. I would wear sweatpants in the more public venu of running in the park during winter, though I’d be unusual in that most other runners would be wearing modern, form-fitting fabrics. As a man in my fifties, it would be inappropriate to wear such clothing. Likewise, men running shirtless are acceptable in the summer months, but not beyond a certain age of which I am certainly beyond. Track suit pants are likewise not acceptable for cold-weather running attire, since I might as well hit the trail in a black shirt/white tie/Borsolino hat and go as a 1920’s Italian mafioso as a 1990’s Russian one.
Irony, thy name is fashion.
I am not a runner, but it was my understanding that track suits were meant as overclothes that one wore before or after an event. Runners ran in shorts and light tank tops, but wore track suits over those things while sitting on the sidelines.
Still, if track suits are appropriate attire for any activity, I would think it would be running.
Was this based on the All the World’s a Stage monologue?
Do we have to choose just one single thing to complain about? And decide what is the worst possible thing in the world so we can complain about that, and refrain from complaining about anything else ever?:dubious:
Well, some of the bit at the end is cribbed (I thought it was obvious). …and I guess there is a stages of life thang goin’ on.
But, my unique take is that fashion wears out more apparel than the man. 
Ok, I had a hard time rhyming jammies. I did have a couple of also rans…
…both prefaced with:
I never thought that I should see
A strawman wearing jammies…
Worst—
…strolling through the cured-meats aisle
checking out the hammies
Creepiest—
…I bet his wife and girlfriend both
Wear the dreaded granny panties
I’m just surprised by the level of vitriol. I didn’t know that girls who wore yoga pants to the supermarket had given up on life. I thought they just liked comfy pants.
By ‘level of vitriol’ do you mean: Safe for infants, persons with immunodeficiencies, middle-school-bullying-victims, anyone suffering from PTSD and the elderly?
This is rather ironic, considering the level of hyperbole in your own posts.
As long as you hold your Queen of Drama scepter and work yourself into a snit again, you’re golden. :rolleyes:
While we’re speechifying, remember Albert Brooks’ rant in Broadcast News about the devil will never do anything bad, but just gradually lower our standards bit by bit? To the point where people think the 35 seconds it takes to throw on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt before leaving the house warrants the sort of protests we used to reserve for being drafted into fighting a politically unpopular war, complete with morally-superior sense of high dudgeon. “I can’t be bothered to get dressed before leaving the house - I’m pondering the Infinite as part of my spiritual journey. Hm? What? Yes, I can do that and text at the same time! What are you implying?”
Eh, I’ve worked retail- it’s been done.
Dripping soapy water on the floor and all.
Yeah, because your reply here isn’t at all overly dramatic.:rolleyes:
Work myself into a snit? I’m both amused and bemused by some opinions people have expressed that I obviously disagree with, but I don’t really have dog in this fight. I don’t even wear pajamas, I sleep naked. It seems like other people have a lot invested in whether or not they would wear sweat pants to the grocery store, and that just seems very trivial to me. I think the specific standards you’re worried are in decline are a bit arbitrary and pointless. What harm is there really in wearing pants made from a slightly softer cloth to do your food shopping?
When you want a White Russian and find you’re out of cream, sometimes you don’t want to be bothered to get dressed up.
Well, there’s the danger of being mistaken for one of the Taliban…
It’s not so much the fabric as the pattern. Then again, flannel and fleece just stand out!
And if you want liberation, use caution. Some people are a little ‘out there.’
Dude, you abide!
I’m beginning to think that participating in No Shave November and wearing pajama pants has been sending the wrong message. It would explain that drone that has been following me around…
Um, that pattern is adorable, and if I saw someone wearing pants made from it in public I would tell them they had awesome pants.
You make an awesome point.
at some point it will swing the other direction: cutting edge folks will get dressed all fancy before going out, everyone in suits but with a twist of some sort. maybe the young men will wear pumps and the women fedoras, I don’t know.
and clean jammies are a better look than many a pair of regular clothes that are …not
I can ignore pajama pants in the grocery store, and girls up through college age (and guys, too - why be sexist?) get a pass from me on the general principle that they’re supposed to be pushing boundaries.
But I witnessed a middle-aged mother wear pajama pants, slippers, and a tank top (and very obviously no bra) to a conference with the principal addressing the question of whether her thirteen-year-old was ready to come back to school after a suspension. You can consider me hidebound and starchy all you want; that just seems wrong to me.