Wow, I can’t believe how many people say they change into their PJs as soon as they get home. I try hard not to buy clothes I find uncomfortable (this time a year that means slacks, cords or jeans with sweaters or long sleeve jerseys) so I don’t find myself inclined to change until it’s time to shower or exercise before bed.
I change when I’m inside for the night. I like soft old jeans to watch TV in, but they are too baggy for even grocery shopping.
I generally change as soon as I get home. Shoes first, then everything else goes (except sometimes underwear), and then I don pj pants or shorts and a t-shirt or tank top.
First the jewelry comes off and then it’s right into sweats and a t shirt or jammies. I also wash my hands, which I guess is sort of weird. If I’ve had a really bad day, or if it’s rainy or snowy, I’ll sometimes take a quick bubble bath.
I’ll chime in on the not-changing-clothes side. On the relatively rare occasions when I wear a tie to work, I’ll usually take it off when I get home, but other than that, why change? I would like to express the following opinions and observations:
The comfortability of jeans is overrated. Fit counts for far more than “formality level” in whether clothes are comfortable.
I’m lazy, and changing clothes is a PITA. (Corollary: engaging in any activity which requires special/different clothes is a PITA.)
Changing clothes = more laundry to do. Or at least, more complicated decisions about what needs to be washed when.
From this thread, I kinda get the impression that more women than men change their clothes after work. Is this accurate? Are womenfolk more apt to wear stuff to work that they’d want to change out of, or to even care or think about what they’re wearing?
I change and shower after work as a matter of necessity, as my job is very sweat-intensive, and I have shirts with the company logo on them that must be worn whenever on the clock! (even when no-one but coworkers can see you)
If my job required a button-down shirt and tie I would take off the tie, unbutton or take off the shirt (exposing the tee-shirt beneath) and change into more casual pants.
I don’t seem to spend as much time as home as I’d like but when I get home I change. I the summer I wear old sun dresses or a slip and in the winter I wear p.j. bottoms or track pants with a tshirt and sweater. Even if I was only wearing jeans and running errands, I’ll still put on my cozies when I get back home.
Most days I don’t change clothes when I get home, but I also wear jeans and t-shirts, knit tops or sweaters (weather dependant) to work.
I am a field scientist for an environmental consulting firm, so work wear is pretty casual because I have to be able to go out to job site with little to no notice and could get dirty. So in general, I dont wear anything to work that I don’t mind getting dirty. I do keep socks and t-shirts at work to change in to when I wear sandals (job sites require steel toe boots) or a nice top to work.
On days that I am out (scheduled) in the field for groundwater sampling or logging soils on a drill rig, I shower and change clothes when I get home.
Yes. It’s not as big a difference as for many Americans: I dress different outside and inside the house, it’s not work-related. Most people look at you funny if you walk down the street in old jeans that are now a couple sizes too big and a sports bra 
I take off my shoes the moment I’m through the door; I never cook with a blouse on; depending on what I wore to work and how comfortable and clean it is, I’ll change into something more comfy (T, old jeans). If it’s going to the wash anyway then I won’t change unless I really, really, absolutelythisminute need to get out of whatever bra I’m wearing.
I work at home so I’m in my jammies all day…but in order to be able to leave the house (which I do every day) I have to take OFF my jammies and put on something like jeans and a t-shirt.
If I have to go to a client site, I dress up. When I get home I am ripping off those pantyhose and blouse as soon as I pull into the garage!
Acrobatic home-worker pr0n?
Damn – is this a money-maker or what?
One thing I love about my job is that nobody cares how I dress. So I never wear anything to work that isn’t comfortable enough to wear at home.
On the rare occasions when I do dress up, I’m so out of those clothes as soon as I get home. I try to get home as quickly as I can when I’m dressed up, too.
I stay in my work clothes unless I am going to exercise. Exercise days, I switch to workout clothes, then shower, then lounging clothes if it’s a short time until bed, regular clothes if it’s more than two hours.
Non-exercise days, I stay in work clothes until I shower and go to bed.
Shoes at all times unless I’m in the shower or in bed.
Yup. My work clothes are mostly fairly casual, but they’re my good stuff for work - I don’t want to get grease spatters while cooking and cat hair all over them. They come off and get hung up as soon as I come home (I’m not a sweaty person - I can wear shirts for days without them smelling). Then wash my face and hands - very important. Wash the day off.
Yes, my bra. That has to come off at home since it’s just too fitted. My clothes are casual but again they fit and I need to wear baggy stretchy stuff to curl up on the couch and quilt. I guess I just feel confined by work clothes, regardless of their casualness.
And as mentioned, I will invariably spill food down my front while eating on the couch so I would rather do that to an old T-shirt.
I typically change (from 3 pc suit0, and change to smoking jacket and velvet slippers, whilst enjoying a cigar and brandy in the study. Dinner calls for an evening jacket. Damn-am I living in the 1890’s or what?
I do. I wear nice, business casual type outfits to work, and when I get home, I just want to veg, so I’ll usually change into a pair of sweats, or pj type pants and a tee or whatever. If I work into the evening, I might just eat, then take my shower and put on my pjs.
Plus, that way, I can toss my work clothes into the laundry right away, and get them nice and clean.