knackers in pyjamas (2 Viewers)

[Pantone247]

someone told me that these people have special designated day pyjamas

As in, they have their normal pyjamas for sleeping in, then get up, and PUT ON their day jammies for swaning about the housing estates in.

I pray this is true, it's too perfect...

 

[Jerry Twig]

anyone able to paste that article here?
i was not aware of this phenomenum and am suitably horrified.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

ye have to be a subscriber to ireland.comm to see it.
ill scan the article in tonight/tomorrow and post it up here.

 

[Jerry Twig]

sound, i'd settle for the text though

 

[Space]

i think it's a very liberated approach to street wear. If only some designer beside Penny's could bring it to the non-working classes, ireland would be like one big slumber party(with sexy results).

You must spread the news.

 

[Buzzo]

I only EVER wear tracksuits for sporting events and pyjamas in bed or in the house. People who do otherwise are STUPID.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

anyone got a source for a nice pair of second hand cords?

 

[HMD]

You must spread the news.

next rock jihad there will only be PJ's worn.

 

[george mcfly]

i wear a spiderman suit to bed

 

[frona]

It's very common round our way too. City Baby's theory is that they are rubbing the fact that they have no jobs in all and sundry's faces.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Copyright 2006 The Irish Times
All Rights Reserved
The Irish Times

November 11, 2006 Saturday
SECTION: MAGAZINE; Magazine Features; Pg. 20

LENGTH: 569 words

HEADLINE: Pyjama Party

BODY:


Pyjamas - once reserved for nightwear only - have come out of the bedroom and are walking down a street near you. Our under-the-covers reporter Róisín Ingle meets the PJs generation.

Most of us have done it. Too lazy to get dressed, you throw your overcoat over your pyjamas, nip out for the paper and run home before the neighbours spot you in your slippers. Recently, though, wearing pyjamas outdoors has ceased to be an activity cloaked in shame. In fact, in certain pockets of Dublin these days, you'd feel more out of place with your regular clothes on than you would in your jim-jams.

Welcome to the world of the PJ generation. Where I live, on the North Strand in Dublin, the community is divided between those who do and those who don't. And just in case you thought this was a purely working-class phenomonon, even Miriam O'Callaghan, the broadcaster, has been spotted in her slippers popping over to the local newsagent in her leafy Dublin suburb.

When a girl in fluffy blue pyjamas served me in the chipper the other day I couldn't help grilling her about the phenomenon. Our conversation led to a fashion shoot with 18-year-old Edel Sheridan and two pyjama-wearing buddies, 18-year-old Donna Molyneux and 19-year-old Melissa Thompson.

The sleepwear-as-daywear trend is thought to have begun in the council estates of Liverpool at the beginning of the noughties (though there were sightings around Dublin before that), when pyjamas took over from tracksuits as the leisurewear of choice. Now you can spot women in their pyjamas all over that city. They have even acquired an uncomplimentary (and slightly tortuous) acronym, Yuans, for young, unwashed and no sense.

"That's disgraceful," says Molyneux, who is currently unemployed but would like to be a lawyer or a hairdresser. "I never go out in dirty pyjamas. I wake up in one pair, then get a fresh pair and iron them. Later on in the day I might change into another pair of clean pyjamas, and then put a different pair on going to bed. I would never go out the door in dirty pyjamas that weren't ironed. You'd look like a crinkled tea bag."

Sheridan, who works in a local chipper part-time, and Thompson, a trainee beautician from Sheriff Street, reckon they own about 100 pairs of pyjamas between them. "I like the ones from Penneys the best, but I have a few from Dunnes Stores," says Sheridan. "They are just really comfortable. There's more freedom wearing pyjamas. Sometimes my fiance might give out to me, saying, Would you ever get dressed? But I don't care. I love my pyjamas."

Thompson started socialising in her pyjamas when she was 15 and always makes sure they are freshly pressed. "I didn't go far at first, but then I got more confidence, and now I'd go to the bank or the shops or to visit friends. I wouldn't go into town, though. That would be embarrassing," she says. "Where we live there isn't much to get dressed for, so I suppose that's why we don't bother."

The stylist for this shoot, Jan Brierton, says she has noticed that most department stores have expanded their sleepwear ranges and that most of them now include clothes that could easily cross from night to day.

The teenagers say they sometimes get funny looks from "people driving past in fancy cars", but it doesn't deter them. "I think if they stopped worrying about what people think and realised how comfy it is to wear pyjamas all day, more people might do it," says Thompson.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

anyone able to paste that article here?
i was not aware of this phenomenum and am suitably horrified.

Pyjamas - once reserved for nightwear only - have come out of the bedroom and are walking down a street near you. Our under-the-covers reporter Róisín Ingle meets the PJs generation.

Most of us have done it. Too lazy to get dressed, you throw your overcoat over your pyjamas, nip out for the paper and run home before the neighbours spot you in your slippers. Recently, though, wearing pyjamas outdoors has ceased to be an activity cloaked in shame. In fact, in certain pockets of Dublin these days, you'd feel more out of place with your regular clothes on than you would in your jim-jams.

Welcome to the world of the PJ generation. Where I live, on the North Strand in Dublin, the community is divided between those who do and those who don't. And just in case you thought this was a purely working-class phenomonon, even Miriam O'Callaghan, the broadcaster, has been spotted in her slippers popping over to the local newsagent in her leafy Dublin suburb.

When a girl in fluffy blue pyjamas served me in the chipper the other day I couldn't help grilling her about the phenomenon. Our conversation led to a fashion shoot with 18-year-old Edel Sheridan and two pyjama-wearing buddies, 18-year-old Donna Molyneux and 19-year-old Melissa Thompson.

The sleepwear-as-daywear trend is thought to have begun in the council estates of Liverpool at the beginning of the noughties (though there were sightings around Dublin before that), when pyjamas took over from tracksuits as the leisurewear of choice. Now you can spot women in their pyjamas all over that city. They have even acquired an uncomplimentary (and slightly tortuous) acronym, Yuans, for young, unwashed and no sense.

"That's disgraceful," says Molyneux, who is currently unemployed but would like to be a lawyer or a hairdresser. "I never go out in dirty pyjamas. I wake up in one pair, then get a fresh pair and iron them. Later on in the day I might change into another pair of clean pyjamas, and then put a different pair on going to bed. I would never go out the door in dirty pyjamas that weren't ironed. You'd look like a crinkled tea bag."

Sheridan, who works in a local chipper part-time, and Thompson, a trainee beautician from Sheriff Street, reckon they own about 100 pairs of pyjamas between them. "I like the ones from Penneys the best, but I have a few from Dunnes Stores," says Sheridan. "They are just really comfortable. There's more freedom wearing pyjamas. Sometimes my fiance might give out to me, saying, Would you ever get dressed? But I don't care. I love my pyjamas."

Thompson started socialising in her pyjamas when she was 15 and always makes sure they are freshly pressed. "I didn't go far at first, but then I got more confidence, and now I'd go to the bank or the shops or to visit friends. I wouldn't go into town, though. That would be embarrassing," she says. "Where we live there isn't much to get dressed for, so I suppose that's why we don't bother."

The stylist for this shoot, Jan Brierton, says she has noticed that most department stores have expanded their sleepwear ranges and that most of them now include clothes that could easily cross from night to day.

The teenagers say they sometimes get funny looks from "people driving past in fancy cars", but it doesn't deter them. "I think if they stopped worrying about what people think and realised how comfy it is to wear pyjamas all day, more people might do it," says Thompson.

i believe i first spotted this carry on around ballybough in 2000. i was told it was a means of identifying yourself as one of the locals not to be mugged.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Copyright 2006 The Irish Times
All Rights Reserved
The Irish Times
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steal my thunder, would you?!! i'll get you

 

[therealjohnny]

The teenagers say they sometimes get funny looks from "people driving past in fancy cars".

people with jobs, where do they get off?

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"would like to be a lawyer or a hairdresser"

hoho

 

[Pantone247]

"I never go out in dirty pyjamas. I wake up in one pair, then get a fresh pair and iron them. Later on in the day I might change into another pair of clean pyjamas, and then put a different pair on going to bed.

amazing.

 

[Buzzo]

hoho

I don't get it

 

[MDR]

I walk around in a babygrow all day long.

 

[MDR]

I don't get it

She wants to be a lawyer or a hairdresser - the points for both are way beyond what any of us could achieve while wearing pyjamas.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

meet Edel Sheridan, the crime busting, pyjama wearing lawyer from Sheriff St.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

i believe i first spotted this carry on around ballybough in 2000. i was told it was a means of identifying yourself as one of the locals not to be mugged.

i walk through ballybough everyday into town... IN MY DAY CLOTHES!