Althouse: Stop wearing pajamas to work.

December 21, 2006

Stop wearing pajamas to work.

Imagine needing to put that in the office dress code.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: Ha. We let people wear pajamas to our office. They generally don't though.; 12/21/06, 2:45 PM
Laura Reynolds said...: That's "Pyjama Media"

When I worked at a military installation in the Marshall Islands, everyone wore shorts except for the few active duty folks who wore fatiques. I only wear pyjamas when its cold.

Note to Blogger: Have you run out of legible 6-8 letter combinations such that now you are having to obliterate the individual letters entirely vvvvvvvvvvvvv

bunch of v's, w's, u's, m's ??; 12/21/06, 3:11 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: Damn I did not realize you could see me!; 12/21/06, 4:14 PM
Tim said...: "Starting on 1 January 2007, civil servants in the emirate will have to wear national dress - a long white robe for men and the black abaya for women."

Hmmm. The difference between a long white robe or an abaya and pajamas is what, exactly?; 12/21/06, 4:42 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: Aren't medical scrubs essentially pyjamas?

O.R. they?; 12/21/06, 5:22 PM
Anonymous said...: I think shopping malls should institute a similar policy. I've seen flocks of teenage girls shuffling around the mall in their fuzzy slippers wearing Victoria's Secret "Pink" pjs. It's horrifying.; 12/21/06, 5:38 PM
Charlie Martin said...: I've seen flocks of teenage girls shuffling around the mall in their fuzzy slippers wearing Victoria's Secret "Pink" pjs. It's horrifying.

Actually, it sounds adorable. Don't be a prig.; 12/21/06, 5:50 PM
Anonymous said...: Actually, it sounds adorable. Don't be a prig.

We're not talking about catalog-crisp ironed pj's here. We're talking about 14- and 15-year-old girls walking around looking like just they rolled out of bed, flopping about in ratty slippers.

It's slovenly and decidedly unlovely, and it speaks volumes about the way these girls view themselves. If they don't respect themselves enough to wear actual clothing when they leave the house, why should anyone else?

I have an 8-year-old daughter, so I pay attention to this kind of thing as harbingers of what may come. We've already banned clothing with lettering across the butt, too-short skirts, and midriff-baring tops. The only time my kids are allowed out of the house in their pj's is on pajama day at school. If all that makes me a prig, I can live with that.; 12/21/06, 8:30 PM
knox said...: No fair, the men still get to wear their "long white robes"; 12/21/06, 9:18 PM