PJs in public
August 21st, 2012 at 10:00 am by David FarrarThe Herald reports:
A heated debate has erupted in Gisborne over whether pyjamas should be banned from being worn in public.
The trend of wearing nightwear to the supermarket, cash machine or around the CBD has become more popular recently, annoying some locals who say it shows a lack of self-respect and lowers the town’s appeal.
I’m all in favour of PJs in public!
Gisborne deputy mayor Nona Aston said in her view it wasn’t the council’s place to create a bylaw forbidding sleeping clothes outside of the home.
Exactly.
Gisborne mayor Meng Foon said as long as people were clean, he didn’t mind what they wore. Some people wore “hardly anything”, like bikinis, while shopping in the town.
In Cairns, you’d see guys shopping at the supermarket in shorts only.
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August 21st, 2012 at 10:11 am
Bloody hell, it’s 2012 not 1912
Stuffed shirts to the max
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:17 am
nasska
Masterton’s reputation as the country’s bush pig capital seems to be under threat.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:21 am
See it all the time in Porirua and in Upper Hutt; it shows a complete lack of class or self respect but that’s the wearers problem not mine so I couldn’t care less.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:33 am
thedavincimode
I’m confident that we’ll retain the title for the forseeable future. Pyjamas are ‘haute couture’ at Kentucky Fried on benefit day.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:39 am
Completely agree that what this shows is a complete lack of common pride and self respect. The fact that they’re moping around mid morning still in their PJ’s shows what a lazy feckless bunch of no hopers that the current benefit system( I while wager anything that 99% are on a benefit of some form or another) has created. Mind you the benefit system is not solely to blame with the education system having to shoulder some of it. You only need to look outside most secondary schools to see how a complete lack of disclipine around uniform standards breeds this kind of lack of self respect. I bet you not one of these cretins went to a school such as Palmerston North Boys High, that judging by the Sunday programme this week is installing the very virtues that this lot is missing.Around my neck of the woods Te Puke takes the prize for this type of behaviour with a certain bakery having a steady stream of fat PJ clad wahines waddling in from 10 am onwards Benson and Hedges in one hand, headice and impetigo ridden child in the other.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:41 am
Another sign of our slovenly, decaying society.
No bans though.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:41 am
That must be very hard on you, Sifty. Will you be okay?
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:42 am
Storm meet tea cup
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:47 am
I have a vague recollection of DPF speaking on national radio 4 – 5 years ago on this topic. Something about 7/8am ish being the time to move from PJs to real clothes even if your’e staying at home.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:47 am
What about people who don’t wear P.J.’s? i.e. those who sleep in the nude.Would this entitle nude people to stroll around the supermarket? Go to the dairy for a paper and milk?
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:54 am
Ryan Sproull ., I assure you I will be fine. I make a rather nice living out of treating the useless fuckers!!
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 10:55 am
All you “anything goes” people have never seen the behemoths in Wanganui Pak N Slave wearing Onesies.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 11:06 am
People are perfectly entitled to wear their pj’s in public. I can see some young people may think it is a bit of a laugh to wear pj’s while shopping — I can see the funny side.
But, if they do so because they are just being lazy and sloppy then it probably reflects their character.
So, motivation behind this counts.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 11:09 am
Brian Smaller – Couldn’t be worse than what we get in Porirua! The worst ones are the ones who don’t realise that they haven’t been a size 8 since they were 8 but haven’t upgraded their wardrobe. I definitely don’t approve of it but if you ban it then it just means it’s another law for the authorities to enforce instead of chasing down “real” crime.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 11:13 am
Yes, Porirua Pack ‘n Save on a Thursday evening has lots of folk in PJs.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 11:22 am
What’s wrong with Arthur Dentwear? If it’s good enough to hitchhike the galaxy in, it’s good enough for Te Ware Whare. Some of my best blogging has been done in PJs.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 11:23 am
Indicates they haven’t bothered with morning ablutions. I wonder what they smell like.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 11:30 am
Dime was in countdown a few months ago. It was 530pm. two big sack of shit teens were in front of me. they were there to buy smokes. they were wearing their jammies.
its just a shame there wasnt a reporter there to interview them and get their opinion on how the “rich” should be paying more taxes.. as they waste their lives.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 11:52 am
I think some people here are being overly harsh. I have no objection at all if someone decides to go shopping in their PJ’s.
As long as they are not a Belarusian shot putter but rather someone who is 100% female / pleasant on the eye and their choice of night attire is a slinky black number!
3, 2, 1….
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Dress sense has suffered rapid decline for quite a while now, I see lads in nothing more then their boxers at the supermarket most evenings. Whatever happened to decorum? socialism is a lovely thing, I have the right to wear what I damn well please
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 1:29 pm
And here I was thinking this was a Texas phenomenon. Apparently it has gone global. Ugh.
People who wear pyjamas in public places are telling me that they don’t care about their appearance, or about their own dignity as human beings. I despise them. I find it personally offensive that someone would appear in my presence underdressed. It shows a lack of respect to others. I wish stores would ban pyjama-wearing, but we’re talking WalMart here, so that ain’t going to happen any time soon.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 1:48 pm
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 2:04 pm
BlairM: PLEASE tell me you don’t despise ME? It would mean so much!
Councillor Aston is spot on, you can’t regulate against trash being trash. Case closed.
And this all sounds like just another day at the Porirua Mall, why is this even in the news?
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I actually find the practice rather gross, but agree with the sentiment that you can’t regulate against trash being trash. Some people are beyond anyone’s help.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 4:51 pm
I hate the idea of the state telling us what we can and cannot wear. Thankfully the council seems to understand this. When I was in high school in the US in the early 2000s there was a big fashion trend of wearing tartan pyjama pants to school, to the mall, everywhere. Most people didn’t actually sleep in them and we wore them with regular shirts but that was what was cool. They werre expensive pyjama pants too, sold at GAP and such.
Now that I live in NZ I often walk around barefoot when the weather gets nice, something you could never, ever do in the US. I get dressed and all, I just don’t bother with shoes to go to the supermarket or run errands on the weekend. I’d hate to see that very Kiwi tradition legislated against either. And as for people in their actual PJs in public, it doesn’t bother me one bit, I say to each his own.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 5:13 pm
It does seem pretty slobby.
However I have been known to slink into the local Countdown at 10:30pm in pjs tucked into my gummies and wearing a big parka, hoping no-one would notice, heading for ovaltine or panadol or bread for midnight toast.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 6:03 pm
As someone who lives in Gisborne, my suggestion to those people who like huffing and puffing about women (for it seems to be a female-only phenomenom) wearing pjs to the supermarket is:
WHO CARES? Direct that righteous indignation at all the women in Gisborne who smoke drink and use drugs through their pregancies, dooming their offspring to being subhuman in their potential.
Who cares about fracking? Who cares about mixed ownership models? Who cares about the rail link? Do something to reduce the number of sawn-off kids getting made here year after year, and the number of people wearing pjs to the supermarket will drop as a bonus, I promise.
The bikinis in stores thing only happens around the time of Rhythm&Vines and it is a whole different gene pool.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Tautaioleua @ 12.47pm “Whatever happened to decorum? socialism is a lovely thing, I have the right to wear what I damn well please.”
Isn’t the right to wear whatever you want the total OPPOSITE to socialism? According to the endless rantings of redbaiter et al, socialists tell everybody else what to do.
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Easy way to avoid most of the slappers and their little shits, don’t go to the malls on benefit days.
5pm Friday at WESTFIELD Glenfield you will find at least 2 slappers looking after kids in the play area. Yep they are in PJs. They take turns to look after the kids, the other mothers are upstairs at the pubs drinking and sorting the next fuck.
And yes the caregivers at the play area are slurping on rtd’s. They then go home and the extended Far Know take care of the kids while they rest
Vote:August 21st, 2012 at 9:35 pm
A couple of years ago I noticed the phenomenon in Dublin, my brother told me its been going on since ’02 its a North Dublin phenomenon. It is alive and well today as this article in the Irish Times attests:
Vote:http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0128/1224310854947.html
August 22nd, 2012 at 5:05 am
Tautaioleua must have been talking with his/her tongue firmly in their cheek. With socialism, they would all be wearing the same – and would look after their clothes better unless they like lining up for clothes bought in from neighbouring socialist allies.
Vote:August 22nd, 2012 at 8:12 am
Went to Pak’n'Save Porirua last night after work at about 6pm….counted 12 people wearing PJ’s. It was particualrly awesome seeing one teenager with a dressing gown on holding a snot nosed baby (6-9 month old I estimate) who was wearing a nappy and a singlet (I was cold wearing a jacket) lining up to buy cheap wine and smokes; I didn’t get within 5M of her but could smell the stale body odour and cool charm combo a mile off. Could you try not to be a stereotype?
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