Friday, December 19, 2014

The Wear Your Pajamas to Work (and Preschool) Week

Pajamas are everywhere in America. In fact, it’s quite acceptable to wear them in public. After years of feeling like she had to put on a skirt just to take the elevator down to the laundry room in her Swiss apartment/office building, The Frau is trying to accept this American sleepwear-in-public trend, but to be honest, her family is having a hard time with it.

Wear Your Pajamas in Public Day is Every Day in America
Take yesterday. At Mr. Frau’s company, it was “Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day.” The Frau is not sure what wearing pajamas to an office is supposed to achieve, but in any case, Mr. Frau was told it was all about “having fun.” Well, in true Swiss fashion, Mr. Frau decided to have no fun at all and went to work in his usual button down and jeans (wearing dress pants usually takes office fashion too far in America).  Mr. Frau had to lead a workshop teaching people how to be managers and he just couldn’t imagine doing it in his PJs. The Frau can’t say she blames him. 

As it turns out, American offices have a lot in common with American preschools. The day after Mr. Frau’s “Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day,” it was Toddler M’s “Wear Your Pajamas to Preschool Day.” This event was so important it was printed on a flyer, which told us not to forget, because the day would be “all about having fun.”

Now The Frau didn’t mind encouraging Toddler M to wear pajamas, since it meant less work for her in prepping Toddler M for school, but strangely enough, Toddler M wanted nothing to do with pajama day and everything to do with wearing normal street clothes. Even upon arrival, where every child in her class was clearly wearing pajamas—and Christmas pajamas at that—Toddler M refused to put on her snowman feet pajamas, which The Frau had packed in her bag just in case. So there was little Swiss Toddler M, wearing street clothes in an American preschool filled with children in pajamas.

As The Frau said in her last post, assimilation hasn’t been easy.

15 comments:

Hattie said...

I found it hard, on returning, to get accustomed again to casual ways. I remember clearly griping about this with a returnee from Japan, which has similar strictures to Switzerland on behavior. Now I'm just an all-American slob again, like everyone else!

swisssidejewelleryetc said...

Crikey - if I had to go to work in my pjs I'd die of shame.....in fact, I'd have to take the day off work or do home office. Bit difficult that, as an English teacher... But seriously??

Chantal said...

The Frau has considered bringing her Pjs to the pool and putting them on after she swims since she leaves at 9:30 pm...but she just can't do it...yet.

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I found it cool and funny, I think I will suggest this to my office mates I was wondering if they will agree with my idea! We also have an office for sale in Singapore and I will suggest to our agent that she must include a house rule that will have a pj office day. haha how cool is that?

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