Pyjamarama!
The Irish News reports that officials a Dublin dole office have taken a stand against the “pyjamafication”
A notice in Drainstown social welfare office warning people “Pyjamas are NOT regarded as appropriate attire when attending Community Welfare Services at these offices.”
“Pyjamification” is something of a global phenomenon. Shanghai residents were banned by the Chinese government from wearing jammies in public in the 1970s. More recently, reports the Irish News, a Louisiana politician called for the banning of pyjama bottoms in public.
Supermarkets in Ireland and the UK have barred night-attire-wearing shoppers from their isles. A Tesco shop in Cardiff put up a warning notice exactly a year ago. Earlier this year a school in England banned parents from wearing pyjamas when dropping off their children.
What do you think? If you are in you jammies, with slippers and a dressing gown, are you not dressed perfectly decently (if a bit eccentrically?)
Is wearing pyjamas on the street not a human right?
And thanks to the Irish News for introducing us to a word we really should hear more often, “pyjamafication”.
