Just like the title says. Now that I’m retired, I’m out and about in the neighborhood when high school kids are walking to and from school. For about the fifth time in the last couple of months, I’ve seen high school girls on their way to class wearing plaid flannel jammie pants. One was wearing bedroom slippers, too.
The first time I saw this, I just thought that the girl was late and had no time to change out of nightwear, but now that I’ve seen it several times, I suppose it’s the latest style. Is this your experience?
I’ve never seen slippers out in the wild, but flannel looking pj pants have been a thing for a long while now. I first saw it over 20 years ago, in a factory of all places.
Yeah, it’s a thing. The Lil’wrekker was surprised when she graduated college and went to work for a professor working on a higher degree, that she had to wear actual clothes every day.
I have bought that girl ‘no telling how much’ moneys worth of clothes .
Yeah, my undergrads were doing this at least 10 years ago. I had to take a few aside and let them know that what they were wearing smelled (as did their unbrushed teeth) and that I was getting complaints from their classmates.
Seems to be the thing nowadays. The Firebug, who is now a junior in high school, has been wearing PJ pants and a t-shirt to school for years now. (Clean PJ pants and t-shirt though: he showers after getting out of bed, and he’s not the sort to put on slept-in PJs after showering. Kid has good hygiene.)
It seems the pajama pants and yoga style pants are made so much better now. I wear leggings that are meant for gym wear all the time.
I’ve worn PJ pants to dialysis many times. Not flannel though. I find flannel unpleasant on my skin. I wear the knit ones I have some fuzzy ones. I don’t wear them any where outside the house.
Work in a high school, can confirm. I’d never wear slippers to school-what if you have to get somewhere fast? And curiously it’s usually the female students.
I was in high school 20 years ago and it was fairly common to see people wearing pajama bottoms and hoodies or t-shirts to school. I seem to recall it being more of a thing in winter months. Same when I was teaching about 10 years ago. I did notice that it was less common when I started working in TX than it was when I was working in PA, but it is still a thing around here on colder days.
I remember some folks wearing slippers because I remember taking note of the cool looking ones that had half of a stuffed animal on the toe but I don’t remember how common it was.
Pjs and sweats were very common in college. I went to college in a cold city so folks would wear boots or sneakers instead of slippers.
Of all the public places to wear flannel PJs, the airport makes the most sense! You are going to be stuck sitting in a small seat for many hours without much ability to move around. Wearing loose, comfortable pajama bottoms seems perfectly logical. Especially if you are planning on sleeping anyway!
After someone mentioned wearing PJs outside in another thread, I’ve been noticing high schoolers and middle schoolers every day walking to and from school in PJ bottoms. Mostly all boys.
I spent too many years of my life supervising kids in PJs who were waiting for their parents to come bring them actual clothing to wear.
(From my point of view, the main reason dress code violations were “a distraction from the learning process,” which was the rationale for the dress code, was the disruption enforcement caused.)
