Next campus trend?
 

FASHION TREND
(If this kid was a GLO pledge, his chapter would be in hazing trouble)

The student in the pajamas
By Mary-Kathryn Craft
The Sun News


Paul Robinson got a few strange looks at first, but now people are used to him strolling through campus sporting his bedtime best.

The Coastal Carolina University freshman, who admits he puts comfort before fashion, wears pajamas to class at least four days a week. Sometimes he'll change into a fresh pair before heading out the door in the morning, and other times he skips the hassle.

"It just depends on how much time I have," he said. "It seems a lot more people are going for comfort than a look. Everyone is just trying to be relaxed."

The casual clothing movement is reaching new heights as comfort seekers have begun bringing jammies out of the bedroom. The trend is popping up on college campuses and can even be spotted at gas stations, grocery stores and video stores.

Before starting classes at CCU in the fall, Robinson, 19, attended Catholic school in Long Island, N.Y., where uniforms complete with blazers and ties were a must. So when he got a chance at fashion freedom, Robinson chose comfy.

Americans crave comfort, seeking out something to spark relaxation daily, according to the survey "The State of Comfort in America 2003," released in November by Karen Neuburger, Ltd.

"For most Americans, comfort is one of the most critical elements of everyday life," the survey said.

Pj's made the report's top 10 list of things that give women comfort.

But style is also a factor in the recent pj's craze. These days you can create just about any look with soft, flowing flannel jammies. Women can now choose the once daytime capri and cargo pants in cozy flannel, velour or brushed cotton. Prints range from hearts and flowers to more personality revealing items like purses, frogs, pink flamingos, coffee cups and martini glasses. Men can go for ordinary or bright and wacky patterns. Places such as Old Navy and Target offer plentiful selections of red lips, penguins, cartoon characters or the more sedate pinstripes and plaid.

Robinson often opts for the loud. Sure, he's got the plaid pants, but he also sports dancing Twinkies, sleeping Scooby-Doos and bears playing violins.

"One kid around school calls me Scooby-Doo," he said with a laugh.

The 19-year-old art major said comfortable pajama bottoms, t-shirts and flip flops make the perfect outfit for his drawing classes, which meet for two hours three days a week.

"I've had girls say to me, 'I wish I had the courage to go class in pajamas and be comfortable,' and I say 'why don't you? It's this early, and no one's looking at anyone else'."

Alzheimers?
 

I can't imagine someone walking around in their pyjamas at my university. Doubtless the emergency services would be called and they'd be carted off to a 'specialist' hospital pretty quick.

This is so funny, because I stopped at Taco Hell on Saturday to pick up something for lunch while running errands, and there were these three college age women in there, wearing their pj pants and sweatshirts. I wanted to say, "You forgot to get dressed!!", but then I didn't want to sound old :)

I love my flannel jammie pants more than life itself. But the only place they go outside the house is to the mom-n-pop convenience store down the block. I wore lots of sweats in college but I can't imagine wearing straight up jammies.

Of course one of my sisters went to Perkins in her nightie after a formal, but that's different. :cool:

I can not ever imagine seeing students at USM in PJs... However, I see them all the time at Simmons College. The first time it shocked me... now I am use to it...

Ha ha ha, I was a theatre major... I had classes where I was literally not allowed to wear jeans/cords/anything tight, restrictive, uncomfortable... so I wore PJs to school. :) It's a normal sight in the Fine Arts Building though, lots of weird people there. I wouldn't wear them all day, I normally changed just for class... but yeah, it's not a big deal. I also sometimes wore PJ pants to my bio class because it was too early.

this was pretty common at CSU-

I never did it, but apparently us mountain kiddies are pretty laid back

Several freshwomen, yes that's what they are called, wear them at Trinity because thier dorms are on the fourth floor of the main academic building. It pretty much made sense to go down to the second floor where most classes are in your pj's.

Well at Middle Tennessee State University, PJs are quite common. Also, people seem to enjoy coming to class looking like they never went to bed. One girl always comes to class with her make-up smeared from the night before. It's nasty.

You tend to either see one of three types of dress at MTSU: The business majors with their suits, the slackers with their pjs, and everyone else with "normal" casual attire.

:confused: It is common at Iowa State to wear pjs to campus, esp for morning classes, along with Carhart jacket.
But this is IOWA, though ...

Yeah, it's nothing new on my campus.

I was one of those that literally rolled out of bed, running out of the dorms, and showing up to class in PJs. It'd always be PJ bottoms and wifebeaters for me, but at least I brushed my hair and my teeth (!) before I went to class. Velour and scrubs were my favorite bottoms...ain't no shame!

It's not just a college fashion thing, the kids at the high school I teach at try and get away with it...but it's really not allowed. Get dressed and stop wearing your slippers/house shoes to school kids! :rolleyes:

hmmm...I wonder
 

I teach at Coastal Carolina University...and I teach freshman English. Though a CCU student, the guy in the article is not in my class, but I wonder how my students would react if I wore MY pajamas!!!

It was pretty common at Platteville too...including the Carhartt. I would wear pj pants around a lot there, but I would never do it here - ya gotta at least be in sweats or windpants.

I think a lot of it is that Platteville's campus is isolated, but Marquette's campus is in the middle of a city, so that businessmen, lawyers, prospective employers, are seeing you schlub around campus.

Whoa, if this is a new trend, then I'm 4 years ahead of myself.

I started wearing my pj pants to class freshman year (its actually the only time I wear pj pants, i swear boxers to bed). I started because I would go from class to track practice and then to class again. I was not about the get all dolled up, only to change into track clothes, then shower and get all dolled up again? Nope, sorry too much work. I don't think my classmates in the class after practice even saw me with dry hair.
Then I had surgery, and my pants wouldn't fit over my cast. So I was back to PJs again.
This semster, I have a break before practice and no night classes, so I do find myself getting dressed to go to class.
But honestly, it was soooo much easier just to get up, put on pjs and go to class.

PJs please if that is the problem than UC Berkeley had a guy for a few yrs walk around campus NUDE and Flip Flops.. if your all up in arms over pj's to class try sitting next a naked guy in class.

At my school you can always pick out the freshmen girls right off the bat first semester because they come to class with skirts on , makeup, and everything. Upperclassmen never get dressed up, and if you did, people wondered what was going on. I would say that 90% of my classes people are dressed in sweatshirts, sweatpants, pj's, basically anything that they could get away with.

I was going to ask how old that article was! That's practically all I see the high school girls around here wear, slung so low on their hips that I am amazed that they can keep them on at all. Maybe it is just spreading to men more now.

Sigh...... Just makes me feel old some days :rolleyes:

PJs really wouldn't be a big deal at my NW liberal arts school. Mostly people stick with comfy jeans - but I've seen some pajamas around. I'm surprised that people are so shocked by this!

Is it just the fact that it's class? Because pajama pants topped with recruitment sweatshirts are pretty much a staple of Saturday "mornings" (really early afternoons!) at the SUB (Student Union Building).


Sarah

I still get teased when I go back to school about wearing my pj's to class. As an English major most of my classes were in the morning so I either came in my pj's or my swim suit since I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor while I was at school. I think Rush was the only time I really got dressed for class. :cool: It also helps that I went to school right outside of Daytona Beach, Florida! :D

Re: Next campus trend?
 

wore the jamas in highschool...i think the west coast is behind maybe.

There were 3 students in my freshman Spanish class last year who frequently showed up in pajamas. It was rather annoying--they lived in a dorm that was about 2 inches away from the classroom and hey, if I could drag myself out of bed and make myself look decent to teach them, they could have at least pulled on some jeans and a T-shirt. See, it's not that they were wearing pajamas--rather that they were obviously wearing the ones they'd slept in.

We wore pajamas in high school often.

A lot of SDSU students wear pajamas to class, but it's more apparent during finals, when you have one in the morning, and you just wanna get the f*ck outta there and go back to sleep.

Freshman and sophomore years I had Honors classes in my dorm, so all I had to do was walk downstairs to class. There was one guy who would show up every day in PJ pants, a bathrobe, and slippers. My thought on that was, nope, do not need to see your hairy, hairy chest while I'm trying to learn about ancient Greeks, thank you! I always had to be dressed because I had class right after it across campus. I would just feel weird, going to class in the PJs. For me PJs are for lounging around the house, not going out where other people will see me.

Haha, I totally wear pajama pants to my really early morning classes. I also wear them during finals.

My freshman & soph. year, I ALWAYS had 8 am classes, so when time was short, I just ran to class in my PJs!

Now that I'm older and have afternoon/evening classes, I try to at least get dressed before going to class :p

New trend...not really.

I used to wear my pj's to my early morning classes all the time. I was far to lazy to get up and make myself look pretty for an 8:30 class. When I lived on campus would roll out bed 15 minutes before class, go to my class then come back and change.

He's not doing anything new.

Shows that kids are getting lazier and lazier. I remember being in philosophy class and the prof criticizing us for dressing improperly. He went on and on about how boys and girls in the "old days" dressed up for school, that the guys were always in ties and the girls in skirts and heels.

:rolleyes: Yeah, and those days weren't so great. The kids in the b-school here dress up, and I dress up if I have a presenation. Unless your college has a dress code, there is no reason you can't be comfortable. Back in the old days people didn't have to walk over the freeway to go to class (it wasn't there!) or deal with slush from the #30 bus that doesn't stop or have to stay up for hours waiting for the last printer in the computer lab.

I am sick and tired of this kids are getting lazier attitude. We're just following the examples YOUR generation set for us.

Maybe this prof should also lecture some of his collegues. I've seen profs in tattered jeans and birkenstocks. I've had profs that look like they belong to the Hell's Angels. Not to mention the personal hygiene problems that some of them suffer from.

Kids here run the gamut, from dressy (mainly those of us who are in pin attire) to the jammies. I normally just wear jeans and a comfy tee (I have to go to work right after class, and I build sets), but during finals, it's jammie time!

I don't know if he's tried that or not, but most of the profs I know aren't of the birks and tattered jeans set. One woman wears knee boots a la Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman", however.

People wear pajamas at my school all the time...I used to as well.......at least until our sorority decided that wearing pajamas to class had become an issue and didn't put forward a positive public image of the sorority and added a no pajama rule to the standing bylaws....lol....oops.

It's not all profs, of course. I have had the hippie weirdo profs and profs that dress in a professional manner. I'm just saying, it's not always the kids who are lazy.

Glad my sorority doesn't tell me what to wear and what not to wear. :rolleyes:

I think the velour sweat suits like the Juicy ones are really just "nice" pajamas. people wear those to my office. So, it's a trend that's all over the place!

Here at Rio, everyone is in friggin' PJ's! :p I think the only time people actually dress in "regular" clothes is when they go out to the bars... :rolleyes:

Glad you like to criticize mine. :rolleyes:

What bars? :p

Well so I did. But why should a sorority have any right to tell you what to wear and what not to wear? I thought the point of sisterhood was that you loved each other for who you are and didn't judge each other superficially.

My sorority loves our sisters no matter if they're wearing pjs, jeans, dresses, etc.

Would you force your biological siblings to only wear certain things? No.

Why should a sorority be different?

G Phi B is a great sorority, and my best friend is one. Her chapter must be more lax because I've seen GPhi's wearing PJs to class before.