I haven't worn a proper pair of pants in almost 2 years.

[LuckyCharms]

Seriously.

Also, I have 9 pairs of shirts that are an exact match. I seek them out online, and whenever I see one, I buy it.

I wear a different version of the same shirt everyday. Once in awhile I'll switch, but I have on one of the matching shirts probably 95% of the time.

I refuse to stop doing this until someone says to me "Don't you have any other fucking shirts"?

That's my goal.

I don't care if it takes the rest of my life.

[Ocelot II]

1. Have you been wearing improper pants?

[LuckyCharms]

2. I wear sweats at home.

Now, if I have to go to an appointment, I wear sleep pants, black ones.

Elastic waist, just two big pajama style buttons on the fly, drawstring.

I discovered something marvelous a few years ago about these pants. My shirt is always untucked, so it covers up most of the fly. The pants have an almost silky look to them, and they have a perfect crease. I had them professionally hemmed. I have some really nice dress shoes that I can wear with them. They look like an expensive pair of dress slacks as long as the fly is covered.

I've actually received compliments "those are nice looking pants".

I don't have the courage to tell them they are my PJ's.

[viva la]

21. Black pants always look classier

You can get away a lot of comfort with that.

[LuckyCharms]

23. Very true.

[Tetrachloride]

3. April 1st is an opportunity. Just saying

[LuckyCharms]

10. Good point!

[Binkie The Clown]

4. in the 650 days since lockdown began, I think I must have worn pants 6 or 8 timies.

The rest of the time is strictly sweats and T-shirts.

[LuckyCharms]

5. Similar situation here.

Sweats, sleep pants, and my 9 shirts are Henley T-shirts, with two buttons at the top, all the same 2 colors.

[MomInTheCrowd]

6. Ha ha ha ha ha

Thx. I needed this.

[LuckyCharms]

9. .

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Honestly, I don't get wearing pajamas out somewhere.

Okay, so you and others are calling them sleep pants, but they are still pajamas. What is so hard about putting on actual pants or slacks? If you are buying whatever size that fits you, they are going to be comfortable. It's only things that don't fit properly that are uncomfortable.

[LuckyCharms]

8. It's my way of rebelling against the man.

[Kali]

25. ...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. Really? By wearing pajamas?

I keep on wondering why people don't have the simple dignity to wear real clothes. The Man has nothing to do with that.

[LuckyCharms]

29. I know what you mean, but there is a backstory

as to why I hate the man so much.

This past summer I had a pretty bad experience.

It was a hot day, I was all sweaty in my dress shirt and pants, and the man pissed me off. I repressed the memory of why exactly he angered me so much that day.

I was in a rage, and I said the hell with it...I stripped completely naked, put on a pair of sandals (I didn't want to go outside barefooted because of all of the broken beer bottles), and then put on just my pajama TOPS. I went outside to my backyard wearing nothing but my nice blue short sleeved pajama top and my sandals (none of the neighbors were home).

Well, without getting too graphic, I sat down in one of those weaved vinyl fabric lawn chairs. A certain part of my body got painfully caught in-between the weaves, and I could not free myself from the chair.

This turned out to be pretty unfortunate, because right at that moment, seeing I was vulnerable, I was attacked by a squirrel and five sparrows. I managed to free myself from the lawn chair and ran into the house. I had some severe pecking injuries on my head, neck, chest, and right breast area, and the pajama top was covered with blood and sparrow poop. I managed to find an unused tube of Neosporin and used the whole tube on my injuries. That didn't seem to help at all, in fact, the pain got worse. After further investigation of the empty tube of Neosporin, I discovered it had expired in 1993 and the inside of the cap had some weird looking fungus growing in it.

As a side note, I managed to evade the squirrel. He must have thought I was hiding some nuts from him by sitting on them or something, him because he kept trying to get at the body part that was stuck in the chair weave, but I kept swinging my hips and whacking him with the chair, and he eventually relented.

Long story short, I eventually physically recovered from all of the trauma, but my hatred of the man grew exponentially.

This strengthened my resolve to stick it to the man at every opportunity.

That's why I wear my sleep pants to all my doctor appointments.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

33. I worked for ten years at National Airport, in Washington DC.

I spent eight plus hours every day in high heals on a concrete floor.

Stripping naked is often a bed choice, because of various other things, like the weaved vinyl fabric lawn chair your referenced. Had you remained clothed, you'd have been protected from those injuries. Just saying. And I'm not sure what man you actually hated from that experience.

Not sure your story justifies "sticking it to the man" or "hating the man" and makes wearing pajamas worthwhile. Regular clothes make a whole lot more sense, and are both appropriate and sensible. Plus, regular clothes are not at all uncomfortable if they actually fit.

[LuckyCharms]

37. "And I'm not sure what man you actually hated from that experience".

I'm talking about, you know, the man.

THE man.

You know, "the man".

It's a little hard to explain by typing, but if you could hear me say "the man" and hear the inflection of my voice, you would know who I mean.

The man. The establishment. The squares. The fuzz.

That's interesting that you worked at an airport! I have to confess that they once hauled me off a flight for "inappropriate attire".

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

39. Honestly, I haven't a clue what you mean by

"the man".

And I'm not even remotely surprised you were once hauled off a flight for inappropriate attire. It seems you haven't a clue what is appropriate attire at all.

Wearing clothing that is fine at home, by yourself, is not what you should be wearing when out in public or dealing with the general public. If you don't get that, then, oh, dear lord, I don't know where to begin. You apparently missed a lot of socialization over the years.

[LuckyCharms]

40. I'm going to respectfully disagree with you about my socialization.

I am of Italian heritage, both sides. I have pretty dark skin now, but when I was a kid, I had REALLY dark skin. In the summer, I would tan up like it was nobody's business.

My father used to take me to a restaurant, where he would eat breakfast with his friends before starting work. He would bring me with him.

One day we were in the restaurant, and my dad said, "hey fellas look at this tan on my kid, look at this tan line".

He then grabbed my waist band and pulled it down just about an inch in the back while everyone commented on my tan line and all the waitresses were giggling.

That's how I learned to be social.

I've been very social ever since that one moment.

But, I'll admit that my social abilities waned a bit when I got a little older and the man started fucking with my good social aura, started harshing my mellow.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

41. Well, that's somewhat helpful.

But I still have zero idea what you mean about "the man".
What man? An actual man in your life? A hypothetical man? Please help me out here.

[LuckyCharms]

42. I think the only way to convey this properly is for me to make a video

of me saying "the man".

I could use some Italian hand gestures and my lazy, obscenity ridden way of speaking to convey who I mean by the man.

Unfortunately, I'm not very good with technology, and I don't know how to make a video.

So let me try again:

"the man"

"THE man"

"the man, man"

"THE MAN"

[Kali]

51. !

[smirkymonkey]

56. Lucky, you crack me up!

I love your stories.

[LuckyCharms]

57. Thanks, smirkymonkey! Glad it made you smile!

[Scrivener7]

45. That damn man! Power to you, buddy!

[Wicked Blue]

46. What man? nt

[LuckyCharms]

58. That man from the flatland.

[True Dough]

11. Is this one of the shirts you wear?

I bet it really suits you!

[LuckyCharms]

12. I would definitely wear that one, but mine is similar to this one except

my v-neck goes about a foot lower.

[True Dough]

15. That's gotta be

drafty!

[LuckyCharms]

16. Well, everything can benefit from more fresh air.

[True Dough]

19. Your DU username may as well be

BreezyCharms!

[LuckyCharms]

22. Or, LuckyNubby

[FuzzyRabbit]

13. I feel I have been overdressing compared with you guys.

I wear polo shirts and blue jeans every day.

[LuckyCharms]

14. I think that's a good plan....

as long as it's the same polo shirt everyday.

[rsdsharp]

17. The last time I wore actual trousers was March 4, 2020.

Same date for a dress shirt and leather shoes. It’s been shorts or sweat pants, pull over shirts of some kind, and sneakers or clogs.

[LuckyCharms]

18. We're close on our dates:

My last time was probably around 3/12/20.

[haele]

20. I need to get new slippers

I telework and sometimes forget I still have them on when go out to do errands. Nice grey suede, rubber soles, fuzzy inside with memory foam flat slippers. They're pretty ragged by now. Pity, now I have to see if Amazon still carries them.
At least I wear white ankle socks to keep from foot funk when I put them on.
But after two years of almost constant wear, they're shot.

Haele

[LuckyCharms]

24. I miss wearing a good pair of slippers.

I wear slip-on Skechers around the house. Very comfortable.

[Mr.Bill]

27. I wear sweats and a Tshirt around the house

and a sweatshirt in the winter. If I leave the house I put on a pair of Levis and maybe a collared golf shirt. That's my wardrobe for the last two years.

I haven't had many jobs that require anything other than a Tshirt and Levis. I have some dressy clothes, even a few suits. I rarely wear them and I find them very uncomfortable

[Solly Mack]

28. I sent my breeches to finishing school and they came back dungarees. Talk about proper!

[LuckyCharms]

30. I regularly firmly discipline my pantaloons!

[Solly Mack]

31. You should lovingly scold them instead. Otherwise, you'll produce late bloomers.

[LuckyCharms]

35. The trick is to not go overboard with the scolding...

They will just get angry and split.

[Solly Mack]

36. Out with the old. In with the new. Just keep it clean.

You never know when you'll be in an accident.

[LuckyCharms]

38. Like my mother always told me...

"always make sure you have clean underwear on in case you get in an accident".

Can you imagine saying that to a young child?

Scared me so much that I just stopped wearing underwear.

[Solly Mack]

43. Living wild without any filters.

Coffee grounds in your cup.

[Ohio Joe]

32. About 20 years ago I started wearing hawaiian shirts to annoy a guy I worked with...

I was at Nationwide and a woman I worked with got me one as a gift... Very plain, all white with large off-white flowers. Her boss got crazy jealous that she had gotten me a gift and not him so when I wore it to work a few days later he came to my cube and demanded I go home and change out of it. I told him it met company standards for dress (all it said was button up shirt with a collar) and he could go pound sand. It sent him into a frenzy, heh... He called HR and tried to get me fired for violating dress code and refusing to listen to a manager (insubordination). By lunch, I had made sure to visit everyone around him to show off my gift I also went out after work and started stocking up on hawaiian shirts, wearing more and more outrageous ones every day. It became an ongoing joke with people often stopping by his office to ask him if he had seen my latest shirt just to set him off. He eventually wound up going into the managers meeting pretty much frothing at the mouth, going off about how terrible I was but went a bit far when he said not only should I be fired but so should whatever idiot who hired me... Sadly for him, the idiot was the VP running the meeting who had hired me. Heh, he did not last much longer after that and went on to 'seek other opportunities'.

I found I liked them though... They kind of make me feel like I'm on vacation so I still wear them all the time. I say wear what makes you comfortable.

[LuckyCharms]

34. Thanks for sharing this!

I love stories like this!

In the early 90's, I was a juror for a longgggg trial. Everyday for about a week, I would sit in the jury box dressed to the nines: expensive suit and tie, polished shoes, etc. One day it was brutally hot, and I said "I can't sit there all day in this suit anymore", so I put on a pair of casual slacks and grabbed this funky short sleeve button down shirt out of my closet. It was sort of like a Hawaiian shirt, but not exactly. I didn't think too much about it. It was a little wild for the times I guess, but it wasn't offensive. When I walked into jury duty that day, the judge got a big grin on his face and the other jurors were kind of whispering to each other "omg look at his shirt".

I spent the remainder of the trial in comfort, and the next few days, a few of the male jurors chucked their suits and came in wearing actual Hawaiian shirts.

Regarding your situation...I would have done exactly what you did. Well done!

[Luciferous]

49. That's great 😂

[Luciferous]

44. I only wear proper pants if I'm not home. Once I get home I put on lounge pants or sweats. I know a

lot of ladies that also take their bras off as soon as they get home 😄

[Wicked Blue]

47. And some refuse to wear them, ever

I stick to leggings and long tees.

When I go out among the humans, I put on my best leggings and long tees.

[Luciferous]

50. I've also been wearing leggings to work with long sweaters.

[TexasBushwhacker]

48. My boss wears shorts every day, even in winter. N/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

53. Guess. NT

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[Emile]

54. At home Winter: sweat pants. Summer: shorts

By god in my old age I prefer comfort over appearance!

[LuckyCharms]

55. Well said! I agree 100%.