Pajamas: Not just for sleeping

Via BoingBoing

One interesting unusual cultural thing I noticed during my time in China was the fashionable acceptance of wearing your pajamas out in public like normal daywear. It was a common sight to see people (usually men) strolling down the street or waiting for the bus wearing a nice set of pajamas. I was initially confused, wondering if they knew what they were wearing. But apparently, they do. And now the government, in one of its public behavior campaigns, is trying to stop people from the practice in Shanghai, host city of the next World Games.

While I was in pre-Olympics Beijing, there were many such campaigns, including asking people to stop the rather common practice of spitting up huge phlegm balls and hucking them on the ground, both indoors and out. While discouraging this is understandable (if not entirely successful), I rather think the practice of pajama wearing is simply a dose of cultural flavor that simply adds to the experience.

Well we’ll see what happens.

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