# When you were a kid, did you have those pajama pants with the built in feet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492 "2004-12-12T20:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/1 "2004-12-12T20:35:09Z")
Because I think they should make regular pants just like that. Then you wouldn’t have to wear socks. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/2 "2004-12-12T20:36:53Z")
Well I dunno about pants, but when I’m sick and feeling truly sorry for myself, I wish I had a pair of big footy pajamas to snuggle up in. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/3 "2004-12-12T20:42:24Z")
They were the BEST pyjamas ever. I think Sears may still sell them. ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/4 "2004-12-12T20:48:41Z")
I had PeeWee Herman pajamas with the footies when I was little. I loved them. Then the man exposed himself in a porn cinema and suddenly they weren’t considered appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/5 "2004-12-12T21:13:48Z")
My sister is getting footie PJs for X-mas this year. She’s 14. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/6 "2004-12-12T21:15:59Z")
They were great for a while but I would always wear out the feet welll before the rest of the pants and my mother would have to cut the feet off. They would look a little ragged after that. I think the feet should be rubber coated or something. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/7 "2004-12-12T21:23:47Z")
Mine were pink with little bunny faces all over, and had the little non-skid nubbies on the bottom of the feet. I used to love rubbing the bottoms of my feet together, not just for the sound, but to see if I could set my feet on fire (never succeeded, but they did get really warm). Dunno about nubby footy jeans. Just seems wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/8 "2004-12-12T21:24:49Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I think the feet should be rubber coated or something. The ones we got for my sister are, and the ones my toddler wears have rubber soles. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/9 "2004-12-12T21:32:46Z")
Now I want a pair. _woe_ So cute and cuddly and fuzzy… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/10 "2004-12-12T21:33:56Z")
> [@Spongemom](#): > > The ones we got for my sister are, and the ones my toddler wears have rubber soles. Gotta love cutting-edge technology. Back in the 70’s those innovations simply were not available at least to the great unwashed masses like my family. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/11 "2004-12-12T21:54:52Z")
Yeah, I had feeties. Now that it’s getting “cold” here (sort of, it’s South Florida, so not _really_ cold) I’d might wear feeties again. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/12 "2004-12-12T21:56:11Z")
Mine were white with red, horizontal stripes. I looked like a candy cane. I wanna new pair. And it MUST have the trap door too. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/13 "2004-12-12T22:42:12Z")
Would it be wrong to say that I still wear footies now? No? Good. And you can, for the most part, still buy the at places like Wal\*Mart. The only drawback is you have to purchase both the bottom -and- top. Still we’re only talking about $15. Woohoo, those things are sweet! Sadly for me, I’m so cold natured that I have to wear socks inside them (and then sometimes even add my house shoes on top – having that tempature setting is _such_ a bitch). ---
**Author:** ![aurelian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@aurelian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurelian)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/14 "2004-12-12T23:20:22Z")
\ I had those - they would either snap or zip up from the waist to the neck, and mine were usually made of flannel. I shudder because I have eczema, and since those things would make me hot, they would make me itchy. My parents finally gave up on making me wear them when they would come to wake me up in the morning and find the pj’s flung across the room in a pile and me in my undies. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/15 "2004-12-13T00:06:08Z")
I had what we called a “sleeper”. I guess it was like a jumpsuit, but with feet. The only problem was that I couldn’t get myself out of it (the zipper required more dexterity than my baby hands possesed,) so going to the bathroom at night meant I had to wake my parents up. I definately crapped down the leg of it once :smack:. I’m not sure when I stopped whereing them. Probably by the time I was 4. I’m not sure I’d like pants like that. Sometimes I like having some air circulation around the ankles. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/16 "2004-12-13T00:34:43Z")
Yep. Mine were light blue and I loved 'em. I was pretty young though ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/17 "2004-12-13T00:51:02Z")
The ones I had had traction on the feet, but it was some kind of plastic-y material, and after awhile it would get stiff and crack. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/18 "2004-12-13T00:51:57Z")
[http://www.warmthwear.com/](http://www.warmthwear.com/) I looked up ‘adult footie pajamas’ on google and i’m suprised that I didn’t find one porn site, just sites offering adult footie pajamas. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/19 "2004-12-13T01:54:28Z")
Not after I turned five or so. Mine were pale blue and were the jumpsuit variety. Really itchy too… didn’t care much for them. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492/20 "2004-12-13T02:35:57Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > The ones I had had traction on the feet, but it was some kind of plastic-y material, and after awhile it would get stiff and crack. That’s the ones that I had too. They would pretty quickly crack to the point where my mother would have to cut the feet off. So traumatic. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-kid-did-you-have-those-pajama-pants-with-the-built-in-feet/279492.md?page=2)