College kids' attire

[NCGrandma]

Since so many of you have kids in college, or about to be, I hope you can answer a question

I live in a college town, but seldom go downtown (mostly because I try to avoid all the unattractive new development). On Saturday, I found myself on the main drag around noon and there were tons of students pouring from campus to the many eating places. No surprise there, but I *was* surprised to see that at least two-thirds of them were wearing pajamas and bathrobes. Not loungewear, but "I just rolled out of bed and grabbed the first thing I could find" bathrobes…

Is this typical where you or your kids live? I don’t really care, but it surprised me. There are over 60,000 people who live here — it’s not a small college town with mostly students.


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[SnuggleBuggles]

Pajamas, yes, Bathrobe, no.

[JustMe]

The pajama thing seems to be "in" right now. Its in high schools as well, at least here. Just re-read your post and wanted to add that wearing pajama bottoms as outside pants is what is being done here, not really bathrobes.

[NCGrandma]

Yes, the bathrobes were what particularly caught my eye. Everything from pink terrycloth to random grubby ones. Maybe someone else will chime in and we'll know where this trend originated…


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[essnce629]

Pajamas, yes, Bathrobe, no.

Same here. Never seen anyone in a bathrobe! Maybe it's a tradition they do during midterms, day before spring break, or something?

[gymnbomb]

Last fall I taught a 9 a.m. class with 150 mostly freshmen enrolled. On an average day I saw in the range of 1-5 students wearing pajama pants, but never robes. Most of them wear leggings or sweatpants or other athletic pants/shorts. I would guess less than 10% usually wear jeans or other pants or skirts.

[candaceb]

I live in a college town and I just saw this for the first time at the grocery store an hour ago.
I would have said the "uniform" right now is sweatpants and oversized hoodies. Also pajama pants instead of sweatpants. But I hadn't seen the bathrobe out and about until today.

[dogmom]

Do there go out in public and wear pajamas? Yes. many do, my eldest being one.
Am I jealous? Also yes.

[bcafe]

Pj pants, yes. No to bathrobes but it sure is funny!

[firstbaby]

I have not seen that trend yet. My college kid doesn’t own a robe and my soon to be college kid doesn’t have one either. I’ll have to ask college kid if that’s a thing at their school.