Why do Pittsburghers Wear Pajamas To The Grocery Store? (how much, wedding)

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by ny789987

I just think that it is kind of gross. Outside is filled with dirt, grime, & germs. How do you come home and then jump into your bed in the same outfit? You are essentially sleeping in your own filth.

You've got it backwards. The pajamas are from the previous night. They didn't get dressed after they woke up.

[North Beach Person]

Pajamas in public is not just a Pittsburgh phenomenon, it's been being done here for the last 5 or 6 years.

[hinsey86]

Over 10 years ago while in another part of the country the military put out dress code guidelines for shopping at the commissary. They had to include no pajamas because it was a problem. So I guess Pittsburgh is actually behind the times.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by hinsey86

Over 10 years ago...So I guess Pittsburgh is actually behind the times.

That's no surprise.

Pittsburghers are known being 15 years behind trends and embracing them for decades after the rest of the country stopped.

[liz-momof2]

In the commissary and P/X where we were in stationed in Northern Virginia, military wives were told to go home and put on proper clothing if they wore pajama pants, yoga pants, sweatpants, or flip flops. I saw this happen to acquaintances as recently as a year ago. Funny in that, when we were stationed in Kansas, I never heard of that happening and saw multiple people, both men and women go in looking like they had just rolled out of bed. Not a word was said to them. This is not just a Pittsburgh thing. When I worked retail in my early 20s in Kansas, the attire of people going in and out of stores was horrible, some looked (and smelled) like they had not bathed in weeks. Personally, I will run to the Shop and Save or Giant Eagle without make-up on, but wear jeans at least. I have had to go to Sheetz to get gas a few times in yoga pants or sweatpants and felt messy and unkempt.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by liz-momof2

Personally, I will run to the Shop and Save or Giant Eagle without make-up on, but wear jeans at least. I have had to go to Sheetz to get gas a few times in yoga pants or sweatpants and felt messy and unkempt.

I have recently embraced yoga pants. I used to feel like I was wearing indoor clothing but I got over myself.

The "wear jeans at least" is funny. Do you really consider jeans that unacceptable?

[shadowfax]

Usually when I go to the store it is not with the intent of impressing someone. Now I never go to the store in my PJs... because I don't own any...

Very rare for me to leave the house in sweats but sometimes I do. Sometimes I stop at the store on the way home from the dojo and shop while still wearing my gi pants... which technically is Japanese underwear. And often I stop on my way home from having just trimmed a barn full of horses. Definitely not at my best then either. The purpose of going to the store is to acquire food. Not to get new friends dates or jobs...

So who really cares what Ive got on as long as I am wearing something? I have yet to actually take note of what other shoppers are wearing at the store. My eyes are busy reading labels and price tags.

[zman63]

Originally Posted by Hopes

That's no surprise.

Pittsburghers are known being 15 years behind trends and embracing them for decades after the rest of the country stopped.

Lol. The toughest guy i met was a woman in pittsburgh.

[Q-tip motha]

Originally Posted by ny789987

I just think that it is kind of gross. Outside is filled with dirt, grime, & germs. How do you come home and then jump into your bed in the same outfit? You are essentially sleeping in your own filth.

Most people don't roll around on the ground or soil themselves when they're out in public.

[zman63]

The typical yinzer woman has dyed hair, wears pjs or sweatpants with generic ugg type boots. She is covered in tatts, smokes newport 100s, drives a bright yellow gm vehicle (cobalt/cavalier) to honor the stealers, swears like a trucker, drinks like a fish and cakes on the makeup.


The yinzer dude has a mustache/gotee, slicked back hair or an 80s hairdo, overweight, potbelly, jeans too tight, shirt tucked in , volunteer fire fighter pager on side, stealers stickers on their beatup truck, drinks old milwaukee or beast light, smokes marlboro reds, only wants to talk about the stealers or how they think they are a stud.


It is comical!