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Needs attached mittens that you can slide in and out of.

I wonder how many of the pajama in public crowd are also part of the 8% unemployment in this country.

Saw a woman at the airport wearing PJ's waiting for a flight, complete with the pillow accessory. Wasn't worth a second glance, just an attention whore in action.

The thing about pajamas is that they don't have any kind of support. Let's face it, some people need more support than others. Especially the wal-mart crowd.

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Now you see why it's OK for some people, but not for others

You mean besides the fact that the hot chick is wearing yoga pants?

Chairman Mao is back?

For some reason, wearing PJs in public has never really caught on in Canada.

Must be a Southern thing.

Then again, Thermal underwear is hard to tell from a snowmobile suit if you have a coat and ski pants over it. The only thing that gives you away is the flap. For some reason, nobody puts those on ski pants or snowmobile suits, at least, not that I know.

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Now you see why it's OK for some people, but not for others

You mean besides the fact that the hot chick is wearing yoga pants?

OK, you got me, she is. But there's stuff written on it, and if you GIS "Coed Pajama" Porn is the only result, seriously.



This was the third result for me, but yes, there was indeed a lot of porn in that search. Pajama bottoms just have that loose fit which destroys any hope of getting a decent "datass" shot without having the person completely bent over.

Tyrone Biggums: Love, Love, love the yoga pants look.

That's just the thing though. Yoga pants are intended to be form-fitting, to make it easier to actually do yoga in them (lol) and to show off that sweet figure you get from doing yoga. They're actually intended to be worn outdoors, to some extent.

Pajama pants are all straight lines and frumpiness. Blech.

I'm all for changing into some flannel pants when you get home, but they aren't practical for wearing out. Your wallet, keys, and cell phone don't stay put in your pockets, if you even have pockets, and bang on your legs all the time. They aren't as warm as jeans, if there's a fly it gaps, and as mentioned before, boners become very public.

I'm perfectly comfortable wearing jeans and a polo, or jeans and a t-shirt. Loose, relaxed fit jeans, not skinny ball constricting jeans.

I'd like to see a social map of this custom (geographic or cultural or what not). I did try a Google Advanced Search for only Canadian (.ca) sites, but it didn't answer my questions.

I did find an interesting (?) historical or literary quotation in a Wikipedia article on pajamas:

Author Lucy Maud Montgomery, touches upon how pyjamas were viewed by the Canadian provincial culture in her 1931 novel, A Tangled Web: "The night before, as he was sitting on his bed, studying if there were any way to wheedle the secret out of Dandy Dark, he had absently put both feet into one pyjama leg. Then when he stood up he fell on the floor in what his terrified wife at first thought was a fit. Very few of the clan sympathized with him as to his resulting shoulder. They thought it served him right for wearing new-fangled duds. If he had had a proper nightshirt on it couldn't have happened."[21] Note the old-fangled spelling.

In the summer time I see people wearing their traditional African or Asian garb (it's unsuited to Canadian winters, no pun intended but left in and italicized any way). In the winter you do see Muslims of the more fierce in-your-face variety wearing their beanies and robes over street clothes (and winter boots). I think boots makes a traditional white cotton robe look funny. It's like a lady wearing army boots under a gown.

The pajama originated in India, where finding heat is usually not a problem, and similar loose-fitting clothing can be found in many tropical countries where it evolved to meet the needs of poor people and a hot climate. I often see young sub-working class white men wearing pajama-like "sweat pants" that judging from the colour, cloth, etc., are the pajama bottoms they sell in Zellers separately from the matching tops ($15.00 each, sold separately). Zellers is the Canadian equivalent of K-Mart, more or less. Thus, I know that some Canadians at least wear pajamas in public, although they may be brazenly pretending they don't to themselves and others.

But really, I think this is the fault of a peculiarly American (or at the limit British) in-your-face democracy which says "I have a right to do anything I want." or "I'm not hurting you, so it's none of your business." or "Feck off! Stop judging me!"

I'm a liberal man but I think that a decent respect for the bourgeois public/private distinction and also appearances is a good thing, even when not totally de rigueur. There are just some things I would not dream of doing.

1. Cutting my toenails in public.
2. Going under-dressed even by casual standards.
3. Wearing shorts.
4. Putting salt or ketchup on everything before tasting it. (Pepper is fair game. I like pepper.)
5. Cursing at somebody for holding the door for me (I am a man, but I appreciate the courtesy and don't regard it as a sign of weakness or an insult.)
6. Wearing short sleeve shirts or t-shirts without something to put over them.
7. Talking about very personal matters as if nobody around me can hear.

There's a lot of other things I just can't imagine doing until I see somebody who can. Call me bourgeois, stuck-up, snob, or what you will--etiquette can be bullshiat but consideration for other people never is. I find that a certain type of republican democrat gets this wrong and insists on the etiquette but is affronted if you are shocked by the lack of consideration.

As usual, the USA is just humanity writ horribly, horribly large. This affliction must be spreading in the rest of the snivilization, as Herman Melville called modern society.

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This is not pajamas. It is just a jacket he has left over from his days in a boy band or something. With out a woman to throw things away, men will keep jackets forever. AND WEAR THEM. Even if it makes you look like a bartender in a gay strip club.

I don't know what the explanation for Don Cherry's wardrobe is. You can't explain that.

I suspect that his wife is very brow-beaten and that he just wears those jackets because he finds the jackets that CBC Sports colour commentators are made to wear too garish or "fruity" for his taste and prefers to dress like a Mad Scotsman, although Cherry doesn't strike me as a Scottish name. It sounds English, and so it is, according to those web sites that sell you copies of somebody else's "family" crest. (Genuine heraldic arms are not "family" crests. They are personal and vary according to your relationship to the bearer. People who have the real thing are older than mud*.)

*I am proud of that one.

The crazy lady, above, in the pink sheep motif pajamas reminds me a lot of my Great Aunt Dora, although my Great Aunt Dora actually looked more like the Duchess in Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice Through the Looking Glass. The fact that she is in a yarn shop buying yarn only increases the resemblance because WASP women of my Great Aunt Dora's age (and spinsters) were fierce knitters, turning out socks and mittens at a rate of one or two pair a day, not to mention a formidable out-put of sweaters and scarves and doilies and pot-holders.

You can make potholders at a rate of several a day, which is why they are to be found in Surprise Boxes at fairs and bazaars and things like that.

A team of WASP ladies can knit a Sherman tank cozy in a day. Two days, if you want camouflage. They just sit and rock and jibber-jabber away and before you know it, you can't open the door for Irish or Icelandic sweaters.

Personally I wouldn't mind having another Great Aunt with a really good source of wool and a Canadian sweater pattern-book. I like moose and a sweater with my namesake Brant geese on it would be cool, or Canada geese if Brant is to hard to find.

Memo: Hello Kitty pajamas would also be acceptable in a Crazy Old Woman wardrobe.

brantgoose: 1. Cutting my toenails in public.
2. Going under-dressed even by casual standards.
3. Wearing shorts.
4. Putting salt or ketchup on everything before tasting it. (Pepper is fair game. I like pepper.)
5. Cursing at somebody for holding the door for me (I am a man, but I appreciate the courtesy and don't regard it as a sign of weakness or an insult.)
6. Wearing short sleeve shirts or t-shirts without something to put over them.
7. Talking about very personal matters as if nobody around me can hear.

How the hell are shorts and short sleeves offensive? Do you spend your entire life indoors, or are your calves and forearms covered with lesions?