I’m just back from spending the day in Wisbech with my mother and we did a spot of
shopping. I can tell you they are very well dressed shoppers in the Fenland capital; we did not see one slovenly dressed shopper wearing slippers and pyjamas.
I was looking out for trolley pushers in their nightwear following the appearance of a bizarre notice in a Cardiff Tesco store which states: "Footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted."
The Cardiff store has banned shoppers from wearing pyjamas, including Elaine Carmody, 24, who was refused service when the policy was introduced, and seems totally unembarrassed by her inappropriate attire.
However, I will admit that I have thrown a coat over my nightwear on a couple of occasions and jumped in the car to drive my son to the station for his early morning train when we have both overslept.
As I headed down the A10 into Ely, it felt like I was carrying a huge secret, and I hoped nothing would happen on the journey which would force me to stop.
While in Wisbech today, I was intrigued by a newish reptile shop which seems to be bucking the recession. My curiosity got the better of me and I stepped inside for a peek and was told about the customer who bought a tarantula every week for three months. Why would anyone want a dozen tarantulas? Yuk!!
They also rescue pythons which have done a runner. Apparently, when they captured a python from the engine of a car, the owner told them that as it was a sunny day, she decided to let it loose on the front garden for a good stretch…..
You couldn’t make it up!
*I’m delighted to see that Wisbech is recommended in today’s Times Weekend magazine as a great British weekend escape. Where I go, others obviously follow …..
I once had a corn snake left to me as a pet, i often visited the reptile shop for day old mice to put in my freezer. As this is what i had to feed it.After it escaped from its cage one night i soon found a new home for it not that my boys were too happy about that 🙂
No bizarre pets for me!
Who on earth would want to go shopping looking like that ..not me. Oh i think there is a difference between Tracksuit bottoms and pj’s. I would not go out in tracksuit bottoms either, unless for keepfit or something like that, or and real emergency.
Oh I have slipped my jeans over my pj.s which is very different, and done the coat of nightwear.
That should of been Coat over the nightwear!! oopss, hate making errors like that.
Anne, I think we should all turn up in Tesco wearing our jim jams and see what happened. Would they really throw us out?
I don’t see anything wrong with going out in PJ’s. Many folk go out in thin cotton trousers that are far more revealing and frankly if there is going to be a law against PJ’s then there should be one against fat women wearing leggings. And thin cheap linen trousers (not lined) with flowery pants clearly on show. I mean, ugh!
I can assure you that I would be far more fetchingly and modestly attired in my PJ’s than many I see on the street.
And we haven’t even got to the men dressed only in shorts or youths with their trousers half way down their knees and their pants on show.
Ellee – just spotted your call for PJ wearing women together; count me in!
Sally, I’m wondering if you have served fish to customers in their PJs too.
I Like their slogan or what do we call this:
“Footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted.”
I couldn’t believe that people go shopping in their jamjams! I’m going to tell my Italian students and I’ll let you know what they say. Why would anyone want ONE tarantula?!!
It is surprising that someone would shop in their nightwear. But even so she is more covered up that some people who shop in normal clothes with their bellies and other bits of flesh hanging out.
Good on Tescos, this sort of get up in a food store is repulsive.
They have worn these clothes all night in bed and then cant be bothered to get dressed its just slob behaviour .
No sense of self respect comes to mind .
And that bit about ” how difficult it is to get three kids ready for school without getting dolled up yourself ” !
Years ago working class women and men wore proper clothes all the time ( including best boots on Sundays )however poor they were .
The men wore jackets or suits plus hats and the women frocks , hats and aprons .
They wouldnt have been seen dead at their front door in their nightware never mind go down to the shops in such garb.
No wonder their children often are so lacking in social skills and graces.
Oh dear Ellee you should have put a public warning on the tag to the BBC interview with the wench from Cardiff.
She sounds just like Vicky Pollard .
Loved the bit where she desribes going into the shop ” early at 11am for her fags ”
No doubt just about the time she’d got out of bed .
Disaffected – please see my previous comment re: leggings and the tasteless map of cullulite therewith.
Hi Philipa ,
Yes all these modes of dress are revolting especially as most of those wearing such have mounds of fat thats all on show .
Perhaps we should go the opposite way to the French and make them all cover up !
Some people must be really lazy as not to bother to change clothes. Good for Tesco.
Oh i think there is a difference between Tracksuit bottoms and pj’s. I would not go out in tracksuit bottoms either, unless for keepfit or something like that, or and real emergency.
Its the kids who seem to do the most running around in their PJs during the day here — of course, I can’t always tell what is intended as sleepwear and what is intended as merely (and extraordinarily) informal. (College campuses must seem like a 24/7 pajama party some days.) But one also does see the occasional person who is old enough to know better in the grocery or a discount store — and it is never, in such cases, anything other than frightening to see. Perhaps the ban you write about could exported to America?