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Loungewear

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I am afraid I made a grave error with my last purchase of loungewear. I bought a really soft and fleecy cardigan that I wear over pajamas. The texture is very similar to fluffy cotton socks. Our dog is obsessed with stealing and chewing socks. Who do you think made off with the cardigan belt the minute I got it out of the package? I got it back before any damage was done. Now, though, I am afraid Kyrill thinks the cardigan is a big sock for him to chew!

Husband tells me that I am not allowed to cook in the cardigan as it is a cream color and he doesn’t want me to stain it. I confess that I do cook in my pajamas sometimes. I never wear them out of the house, though. My usual outfit is a sweatshirt with corduroy pants and soft socks. I wear those to work, too. I only have one pair of sweatpants. I only “dress up” if I have to testify in court as an expert witness.

I am still assessing what clothing choices I will make now that I am not working full time. I don’t think I will stock up on much more “loungewear”, especially if it is soft and fleecy like socks. I am drawn to comfy but not baggy, pants, and soft sweatshirts. I am taking care to keep my new cardigan out of Kyrill’s reach, along with all the other things he loves to steal and chew like socks, pens, papers, and eye glasses. Terriers certainly are good at helping us always put things away!

What is your favorite “loungewear”? Any memorable work uniforms?

25 thoughts on “Loungewear”

  3. The picture made me laugh out loud (and then Bill’s comment)..

    I am still wearing my loungewear as we speak – a comfy long-sleeved, open-necked top that serves as my pajamas, a soft cardigan/jacket, and a pair or stretched-out, warm leggings. I have two more not-so-stretched leggings that I wear constantly on days I don’t have to go out, or just out for errands. I have a favorite acrylic sweater that is not only my comfort wear, but sort of “armor” that I wear when I need to feel “supported”.

    In high school I worked in a hospital lab on Saturdays, and wore a white nurse’s uniform – dress, not pants. Hmmm, that may be the only time I wore a uniform, unless you count the fact that when starting out teaching, we still had to wear skirts, no pants yet, at St. Anne’s of the Sunset school in San Francisco!

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  5. The company I worked for here in Ohio provided some nice work t-shirts. They weren’t required to be worn and lots of guys refused to do so as they were bright pink! The boss supported breast cancer awareness.
    The color passed job site high visibility requirements so I wore mine. I suppose some people thought I was gay. I never got any feedback on that which is, on refection, a good thing. Construction people can be really sexist.

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      1. Things have gotten a little better. I’m back at work this spring and summer supervising a mammoth school project. My second weekly toolbox talk this next Monday will be about respect for persons.

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        1. Glad to hear it, Wes, and thanks for addressing the problem. Still, it’s all too prevalent. And with the gang that’s currently running the country, it’s an uphill battle.

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  6. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    Leggings and t-shirts would be my favorite loungewear. The evenings are the time I am most likely to sit still and watch TV, so sometimes that is PJs and robe with slippers. Ahhhh. Now that we approach lighter evenings and warmer weather, I abanodon TV, and I am often sitting on the front patio on the glider in street clothes, which is such a pleasure; that is until the chiggers emerge in late June. Those nasty buggers.

    Renee, I have had acrylic sweaters that a long-ago cat of ours, Felini, took to, and chewed into oblivion. He seemed to love to feel the acrylic on his teeth. I had to hide the sweater, but he found the belt and just destroyed it. When he had a chance to access the sweater, it suffered the same fate.

    Phoebe, the dog is entranced with spring. The tree in the front yard is shedding sticks. She carefully sorts through these and brings several selections in the house to chew on in the evenings. Maybe that is her version of loungewear?

    The only job I would have had that required a uniform, would be nurses aid back in the 70s and I have no memory of what I wore for that. My sister worked at the same place in the kitchen for many years, and she wore some white, early polyester version of scrubs, but scrubs were not yet invented as they exist today.

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  7. When I worked in the display department of Dayton’s, I was required to wear a tie and sportcoat. We weren’t paid enough to buy a sportcoat, and many of the areas in which I worked, like prop storage areas and behind the display windows, were dusty and grubby and my sportcoat quickly became likewise dusty and grubby. It would have been much more practical and presentable if I could have worn clothing that could be laundered.

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  8. I’m pretty much a “get-dressed-for-the-day” kind of gal, except for the occasional forays to the bakery early on Wednesday mornings in my jammies.

    Whenever I find jammies or nightgown that I really like, I get another one. Cuz I just like what I like.

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  9. Two memorable work uniforms. First was at the Ole Piper Inn in Northfield. Beige body suit top with a leather skirt. Body suit was uncomfortable with snaps in exactly the worst place imaginable. The leather skirt didn’t “drape” – it stuck out, a little like wearing one of those big dog cones of shame. Awful. A customer took liberties with this once and got a pitcher of beer poured on him. I got a “talking to”.

    The other was at the bakery in Milwaukee. The men got uniforms from the uniform company but the women were expected to wear (and pay for and launder) their own. I objected to this and after a couple of months, I wore the owner down and he added me to the order. At 5’5″, the men’s small was still large on me so I always had the pants rolled up at the ankles. I probably looked a bit silly, but at least I didn’t have to pay for them or wash them. I thought that the other women who worked with me (4 of them) would follow suit, but they weren’t interested.

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    1. That made me laugh. I had a bodysuit way back then. Yes those snaps were THE WORST! I also enjoy hearing about the beer pitcher tipping onto the unruly customer. Go VS.

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