I have only a vauge memory of maybe having footie pjs as a child, but my kids had piles of the things. I would cut the feet off, not because they wore out, but because that meant they could wear them longer as they grew. I would buy new ones when the ankle elastic reached about mid calf.
I have a pair of footie pajamas. My mother have them to me for Christmas a couple of years ago. They’re fuzzy and light blue with shooting stars. I’m in med school right now so they’re perfect for when I’m up late studying.
I had those when I was really little. I remember my mom talking about how the bottoms were wearing out, so she was going to cut the feet off. I started crying because I thought she was literally going to cut off my feet.
All together now: “AWWWWW…”
Hell I have had a pair of those as recently as just a few years ago. Walmart sells them in adult sizes at least some of the time.
My twin brother and I had matching red Winnie the Pooh PJs. Sadly, my twin toddler cousins in California do not, which interferes with me projecting our personalities onto them.
I had these as a kid and loved them because of the fun noise they made when I walked in them. Also they were great for sliding around the house in. (Definietly no rubber on the bottom of my footies.) I ran across an adult-sized pair of PJs w/ footies a few years back and picked them up. I was totally psyched until I wore them. They made my feet sweat! Girls do NOT sweat, so they had to go.
I guess its true… you can never go back. sigh
I don’t remember having any. Perhaps they hadn’t been invented yet when I was a rugrat. 
I had a pair a few years ago, actually. They were great for lounging, but miserable for sleeping. When I lay down, the plastic soles would pull right up against the soles of my feet, so there was no air moving. Then my feet would get hot and I wouldn’t be able to cool them off, and then I couldn’t sleep. And I’d get pissy. It didn’t make much sense to change into one set of jammies to study and then another set to go to bed, so I quit wearing them altogether.
My mom would punish me and my brother for sliding down the stairs or around the kitchen by cutting off the feet 
The only draw back to those footie pajamas, besides the stinky feet syndrome ( which as a kid was definately a bonus!) was that if you got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, you had to unshuck yourself of the footie pj’s to below the waist.
So you’d pee and shiver violently which is never a good combination.
I think my last time with footies was when I went on a weekend cabin-ing trip with the Girl Scouts. We had to use the outhouse in February. So, trudging to the outhouse in your coat and boots over PJ.s Then you had to take off the coat, unzip the footies, drop trou and freeze my pre-teenaged tits off.
Interesting note that has nothing to do with anything whatsoever but that won’t stop me from posting it, I live about 2 miles now from that camp. It’s being sold and turned into a subdivision.
I thought they were kind of wierd when I was little, although I had a few pairs.
Now, I’d kill for some. I hate the feeling of my pajama legs riding up at night, and I’ll toss around and do strange things with my feet until the hems are hitting the same parts of both ankles. Sometimes I give up and tuck my pjs into a pair of socks so they don’t move around.
The idea of pants with footies instead of socks is okay. But the effect would look like those stirrup pants from the 80’s.
: twitch :
I still have a pair of footie pajamas. Every female in my family got a pair from Target a couple years ago as our Christmas Eve Pajamas. It sucks for me, though, because they were not made for someone as tall as me (and I am only 5’7), so they try to pull my feet up to my ankles.
I had some, and had a blanket made out of the same material. The voltage created was enough to make me cry on at least one occasion that I can recall.
Oh no. I had them for about five minutes. My parents strapped me into those horrid things, and i came down with the worst case of claustrophobia and screamed the house down until they took them off.
I hate them, and to this day I won’t wear socks to bed, or long pants, or anything that might cover my feet. :shudder:
Ahhh… I had a dark blue pair, rubber-bottomed feeties, and they snapped all the way up… they were so comfy. I was two when I had them…
And now that you’ve mentioned it… I miss those
I just bought some for the husband of my wife’s sister. He says he’s been looking for adult-sized footed PJs for years, so hopefully he’ll really dig ‘em. I bought them from a site called "Jumpin’ Jammerz".
If you search the web, you can find many different styles. We found one site that will custom-make any style you want. As options, you can add a butt flap, a teddy-bear-like “tummy circle”, a hood with fox ears…
Oh, and the more I think about it… I’m starting to wonder if I can achieve the same comfy effect by buying one of those pink bunny costumes they sell at Halloween… like this, only adult-sized. I’d wear that. That looks comfy.
Not only would I have the feeties again, but detachable paws, and a bunny hood!
Score!
I have a similar problem with mine, just a different body part–if I buy the adult-sized ones, I swim because I’m only five feet tall. But if I buy the biggest kids’ size, the legs work fine, and the crotch is uncomfortably tight (presumably because of the extra space required for my boobs).
And the real drawback is that they only seem to come in baby pink and baby blue. sigh
I like the ones that are two piece-the long john type look, with leggings and a long sleeved top. I’d LOVE a pair of pants like that in the winter for around the house, when my Raynaud’s acts up. (Sometimes, I’ll have on a pair of tights, two pairs of socks, AND slippers, and my toes will still be numb!).
But I don’t think I could wear them to bed unless it was really cold out-I hate having anything on my feet when I’m sleeping.