China is cracking down on uncivilized behavior! Is it protesters? Women's rights advocates? Union subversives? No. Not even close. China is cracking down on public pajama wearers.
According to a recent New York Times article, police recently implemented photo recognition software to identify anarchists and published partial names and places of this public humiliation. Ms Dong and Mr Niu are two of the identified pajama wearers that lack public morals. Read the story below.
Pajama Wearers Humiliated
I had this discussion over brunch last weekend in a local farm to table type of eatery. It was very cold, lightly snowing, everyone was wearing sweaters and boots except for this guy that shuffled by us in his pajamas. Complete with slippers. Complete with dog or cat hair on his pajamas and therefore floating in the air. He actually looked liked perhaps there was a bed in the back corner and he had just rolled out of it.
This is not an unusual occurrence. I see people everywhere from Wal-Mart to basketball games to the library to the post office wearing pajamas.
I understand that pajama bottoms are the sweat pants of my generation. But, I was never someone that wore them publicly. You wore them to aerobics (nobody girls went to the gym) or to hang out in, or maybe to weekend breakfast. Some did wear them publicly - to class or to run errands. But it was the 80's - big hair, popped collars and day glo for fun. (I'm mixing fashions - but sweats weren't part of the accessories.) Popped collars go with madras - not sweat pants! Did Crocket and Tubbs wear sweats? No, they did not.
So now it is pajamas. I'm not sure if people roll around in them for six, eight or 10 hours prior to leaving the house in them - or is it good etiquette to put on a fresh pair of jammies before you go dine locally?
I think China is on to something. According to NY Times "The Suzhou ban on pajamas in public is not the first time China has sought to crack down on what it deems uncivilized behavior. Chinese authorities have imposed fines for public spitting and more recently, gone after the 'Beijing bikini' - the practice of men rolling up their shirts and baring their bellies in the summer." Rightly so.
Sadly, urban officials had to apologize for outing the agitators.
I think Ms Dong should have known better.
Do you wear jammies publicly or once again, am I eating lunch (fully dressed) all by myself? I'd love to know!
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