I noticed a new trend, (epidemic) recently that I hadn’t picked up on until now. Folks out in public wearing their pajamas. So, what’s up with the pajama revolution? Did this trend lift off during the Great Pandemic of 2020? When the E-Mail class were all working from home because they were scared to death to get within 6 feet of their fellow man.
All the peeps in their zoom meetings, wearing their bunny slippers or mailing it in; working from home with no need to ever get dressed or change out of their jammies. Did everyone just become so comfortable with staying at home and living in their pajamas that it morphed into a new style trend?
Is it Just a Fad?
I didn’t notice this trend up north but even if they were in pajamas I wouldn’t have known, since they were wearing two coats, stocking cap, wind pants and mukluks to brave the winter weather. Down here in Space City though it’s fairly common to see the folks browsing the aisles at Walmart in their pajamas and smiley face slippers.
Personally I’ve never owned a pair of pajamas unless someone gifted them to me for Christmas. I do own a few pairs of joggers and sweatshirts that I wear just to lounge around the house but they’re designed for action. They can go from lounging, to the gym, to the park or the Target without missing a beat. Pajamas on the other hand aren’t designed for anything but sleeping children, (imo ;>).
What did you Learn at School?
So why is this trend picking up speed? I went to pickup the grandkids from school the other day and all the kids came pouring out of the doors in their pajamas. Pajama day at elementary school is acceptable I suppose, but it just doesn’t work for the middle aged lady at Target cruising the aisles in her onesie with tits a flopping to and fro, or the fat-assed guy in his Batman jammies.
The trend probably got it’s start at school though; college that is, where almost all bad ideas in this day and age get started.
“I’ve learned one thing, and that’s to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you’ll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don’t have. Drink ’til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does…” ~ Tom Petty
Leave it to college students to decide it’s better to look stupid than to take a few minutes to brush their teeth, comb their hair and change out of their pajamas. But what’s really hard to understand is how this epidemic actually grew legs and created the current trend.
Is it Okay to Wear Your Pyjamas in Public?
Maybe if you’re going to the White Castle drive through or you’re really, really sick and need to be carried to the hospital, pajamas are acceptable. For everything else though; when you leave the house, just leave the jammies there! But to be completely transparent and honest, I really don’t care what you wear. I’m in total agreement with Nietzsche on this matter. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct, and only way, it does not exist.”
So if they’re so comfortable, you just can’t leave home without them and want to wear them everywhere, do it. Maybe it’s your way of making a personal statement to the Great Wide World about who you are and what you stand for or something, no problem. But for the sake of the children, can you please keep your flopping parts secured.