I'm often in my PJs when I take my trash bin out to the curb.

I will get my paper or take the dog out to do his business in my pjs. Usually with a fleece jacket thrown on top.

Every day. I wake early, mostly around 4, and take the dogs out into the back yard for a few minutes. There are two neighbors that have two story houses and could possibly peek into my back yard over the 6 foot privacy fence if they had a mind to, but my jammies are not negligees, I am decently covered.

I don't, I get dressed in my workout togs immediately upon rising during the week, and whatever I'm wearing for the day on Sa/Su on the weekend. I re-wear my jams until laundry day - which is Tuesday and Saturday.

Our neighbor across the street is often spoted in her pj's. She's in her 80's and has the cutest pj's ;-). She doesn't bother with a housecoat. I couldn't do that - ever.... I'm too modest.

Maybe very quickly just to grab something, take out the trash. It's little effort to throw on yoga pants or short and be somewhat presentable.

And a headband to tame my bedhead.

Several times recently I've driven to my mother's house, after dark, in my sleepwear--flannel pull-on pants and a tee shirt/sweat shirt. I go out at home in them, too, but mostly in the back, or just the front porch. If I take out the trash while still in my jammies, I look both ways first, and then walk fast. ;)

I once ran into my sister in her pajamas at the dollar store. IIRC they were a pastel rainbows and clouds print.

Every morning to let the dog out and retrieve the paper. It's nothing revealing so I don't think it's a big deal. I've driven the teens friends home at night wearing pjs too.

I've sat on the back porch in the summer in my jammies, especially back when I've had a housemate. We'd start the day off with coffee together. (On weekends, that is... weekdays too big a rush to get to work.)

I've gone outside in a nightgown...but our nearest neighbors are 1/2 mile away, and we are completely surrounded by an oak forest.

If my back door is open my neighbor will call out as she is taking her dog out. I walk out to my patio for a short visit and a few kisses from the dog. Many times I have been in my night wear. Cant imagine anyone around here caring one way or the other!

All the time. I wear knee length cotton nightgowns (I'm too short for pajama's) and have a long robe I throw on to take the dog out. We don't have fences, but the yard is large with lots of trees and brush so there is some privacy. Unless we're expecting someone, we don't stay dressed when home ever; within minutes of walking in the door, we're in what we call our comfy's. Of course we'll dress if we're going to work in the yard or be out there for a long time, but to just take the dog out back, we don't bother. We've been here 10 years and don't have the friendliest of neighbors so really we could care less about what any of them think. Actually it seems that after some of them saw us do it, they started doing it too.

Absolutely, no problem being seen in my nightwear early morn or late nite. I'll don a hoodie or sweater if needed; I hardly ever wear a robe, unless I have or am a guest.

I'd rather see a guy in flannel pj pants than his jeans waist around his knees with gotchies blooming out of the top!

Yes, I walk the dog in mine; however, my pajamas have long knit pants with either a t-shirt or sweat shirt. Since I am on two acres with some trees as well, it is hard for anyone to see what I am wearing.

It's rare that DH isn't up before I am. If he's not, I will put the flag out and bring in the newspaper from the front stoop, wearing my nightgown, robe and slippers. Only a jogger or our neighbors across the street could see me in that 30 seconds. Only deer, squirrels and birds can observe us breakfasting on our screened porch at the rear of the house.

You could go outside naked where I live and no one would see you....usually. You do have to be mindful of the occasional boat going up or down the bayou. If I am home alone, I often sleep in shorts and a tee shirt, so if I have to jump up and go outside for some reason, I am "dressed". But if I sleep in pjs or a nightgown, I have no problem going outside like that.

I am on 2.5 heavily wooded acres with no close houses nearby. I go outside in my bathrobe at 6AM to take the dog out. I don't stay out very long, it has been so cold lately. But I wouldn't care if someone did see me.

I think people with dogs are generally prepared to go out at night or first thing in the morning, looking somewhat presentable.

I even keep an led head lamp on the bedroom door so I can see at night with the dogs.

Maybe to take the garbage out to the curb but that's it.

When my son was in pre-school he hated getting out of his nice warm pj's to put on day clothes to go to school. I bought him pj's that looked like sweats and they served double duty. He would wear them to bed and then stay in them for school. When he came home from pre-school then he would get changed.

The worst for me, was running outside naked for something I had left in the truck, and having a crop dusting plane fly right over me. Evidently my driveway, which is long, lines up with his place on the other side of the bayou.

I've chased a lot of deer in my robe in the last three years ;) I should probably buy a robe the color of driveway, or grass, trees - my everyday robe is bright white, has seen better days, and I'm visible from the street. Not a pretty sight when everyone is on their way to work or taking kids to school. Hair standing on end, white mid calf robe, ankles ending in beat-up gardening clogs, not my best look for sure.

Some of my pjs look like day wear so sometimes I'll go outside in that or throw a jacket over what I'm wearing so no one has to see me braless. We're snuggled in here on .20 acre lots. I don't want to have to explain myself or get reported for indecent exposure so I try to keep covered up.

I am often in pj's or lounge wear around the house on days I don't have to go anywhere. But my pj's look very much like comfortable clothes so I could go out and no one knows it's my pj's. I don't generally go outside in them however. I did one day go out and talk to my neighbor, I said sorry I'm in my pjs. She looked at me and said I would have never known. I do have a couple of pairs that have a print on the bottom that are more readily identified as pj's. I don't wear them as often. Most days at home I am in a big loose tshirt, not the thin kind, and my super comfortable yoga capris from old Navy. I bought a pile of them in black, gray and brown. I have the same in yoga pants, I love them. If I need to go somewhere I can do it in that. I fear old Navy will quit selling those and I will be terribly upset.

Not any more! :-) Though...there was a time that I was the epitome of the fabled housewife driving her husband to the San Carlos railway station in her bathrobe during the wee hours of the morning. Those were the days when one had to line up to get gasoline...and I remember a gas attendant telling me that the day wasn't far off where we'd be paying over $1/gallon. I laughed. Not so funny now! Sigh.

I find it hard to believe that anything loose enough to sleep in would not be easily spotted by one and all as NOT 'street clothing'. The reverse of this is that I wouldn't want to bring the *yuck* of the streets into my bed at night. (Looks like a duck, talks like a duck, etc. Looks like pajamas...it IS pajamas.)

The ONE TIME I drove my DH to the commuter RR in my robe I was rear-ended and pushed into the car in front of me. It was winter. "Oh, hello, officer. Mind if I don't get out of my car?"

Either my wife or I stroll down the driveway each morning to get the newspaper (which is usually left right at the street's edge). The normal attire for either of us doing so would be barefoot and wearing a terrycloth robe. A neighbor going to work or some other destination, driving past at just the right moment, is likely to wave or even toot their horn.

Seeing people in night clothing does not bother me. Although I did look more than once at an adult woman in a pink, zip up the front pajama suit with feet in Walmart. It appeared that she had not dressed that way for attention as she was not paying attention to others.. She appeared a little different than normal. The male door greeter was shaking his head.

I don't own any pajamas, nightie, etc. I sleep in the buff.

I do wear yoga pants around the house though, and will go for a walk and to the store in them if necessary.

My neighbour will walk to the corner plaza or here, in her pjs, robe and slippers. If I take her to the grocery store she'll get dressed, then immediately change again into her pj's and robe.

Yes I do! I even go across the street, to visit with my neighbor.

Yes. I live in an apt complex...and I still do it. I have walked Schultz, gotten mail, taken trash out. I've even donned a jacket and gone to the office. Just call me that crazy old lady in 301!

OH...I remember those days...Koffee Klatch's in our pjs &/or robes in the mornings. With those roller things in our hair! Lucy and Ethel mornings. Where have they gone?

This is such a fun thread to read! My nighties mostly have pink roses all over them. They definitely look like nighties. I've been in the backyard once or twice, like to turn off the sprinklers before it rains, wearing a heavy flannel one. In general, however, if I have to go outside, I put a big coat on. Like wearing a robe, but outerwear. :)

Most of the time, around the house, I wear short dresses. No big foofy skirt to brush papers off low tables. :) T-dresses in the Summer and sweater dresses in the Winter, and long sleeve in between in the transitional weather. They're not necessarily the most flattering garments on me, but they're the type of things that are meant to be worn on the street, and have proper underclothes under them. I have no hesitation walking out front dressed like that, though I'm careful of bending over. :) I will run an errand if I'm wearing the more respectable ones, or pop a skirt over the shorter T's.

I don't see people over the age of 4 going to the store, or any place "out", in their nightclothes, though I have no idea of there are PJ's under people's outer layers. :)
I get it about living in the country and watering the fowl or whatever, or getting the paper in a robe. People here wear workout wear or regular clothes to walk their dogs. I'm not sure if that's a place to place thing, or a city vs. country thing.

I don't wear PJs. I pull on sweats when I get up. Yes I go out in sweats and the t shirt I probably slept in to get the mail, out to the car to get something or put something in, or out to the mailbox. If it's cold I throw a robe on over the former.

I do not go out into the general public without getting fully dressed. The exception is a drive through restaurant or bank.

I wear what used to be called a house dress over my nightgown. You cannot see through it. I'm perfectly comfortable going out to the mail box, chatting with a neighbor or rolling the trash bins to the curb dressed like that. My next door neighbor often can be seen in his robe walking his dog.

I wouldn't drive anywhere without being dressed, but at home, I should be able to be as comfortable as possible.

Yes, I do go outside in my pjs and I have neighbors who can see me. I take my dog out on leash to pee early in the morning every day. My pjs are quite modest. Otherwise I am dressed when I go outside of my house.

Not really, but I do let the dogs out of the sunroom in my pjs. Always wear at sports bra though. I'm afraid of the house catching on fire some night and having to run out without a bra on. lol

my "house clothes" are pretty much pajama pants + tank top or a gown; and yes, I will go out front briefly, usually with a robe, to take out the trash bin for pickup. And in my backyard all the time, usually with a shawl or robe. It's my property, and screw my neighbors if they're offended if I go out there without a bra.

Oh, and for my recent trip to the hospital for a procedure, getting there at 5:30 a.m., I wore pajamas (nice new ones, which were a good call!) and a robe. Why not? They were just going to disrobe from the top up anyway.

I'm with the throw on a jacket and bring the dog around to the backyard. I could sneak out a back door but it's easiest going out through the garage.

I change clothing multiple times in the day. My DH laughs. He puts on his outfit for the day. He brings his workout clothes to the gym and changes there,

I have my "play clothes" for the house. They are really not acceptable for even walking the dog. Then, jeans and a top for walking the dog. Some of these jeans I can wear around, but they are usually well worn. If I go to work that day, it gets bumped up a notch. I come home, change to dog walking attire, come back and put on the house clothes. Weird, but true.

I never intentionally go out in night wear, but did once a few years ago. I had gone to bed, and there was a knocking and calling at the door. It was a local policeman, and he told me I had to leave the house right away as there was some fellow across the alley, with a gun, and threatening his girlfriend who lived there. They were evacuating everyone on our side of the street, so I just had to grab my robe and go stand on the boulevard while he ran to get the patrol car to take me to my DD's house a few blocks away. Luckily, the fellow with the gun gave it up and we were later all allowed back in our homes. My SIL found the whole thing very amusing........MIL coming to visit in her pajamas!