I spend about three-to-four months a year in Europe. The standard of how a person dresses when going out in public is uniformly higher in basically every European country. Almost everybody is dressed well enough. It shocking to many Europeans how Americans will attend class or go to the store in pajamas. It wouldn’t happen there.
Yeah, a buddy of mine (we're both Dutch) was invited as a guest professor for a semester at a university on the East Coast.
He later told me his biggest culture shock was students attending his lectures in pajama's. And not just his morning lectures, but in the afternoon as well. Not having the decorum of even maturity to put on a simple pair of jeans and t-shirt was baffling to us.
Some trashy people wear PJs to the shops here in certain suburbs of Dublin. I’m not sure of their thinking - it might be ‘dole queen chic’ or an ‘I don’t give a shite what you think’ attitude. Not a thing among students AFAIK.
It’s kinda the same for us in the U.S. too. Walmart is obviously a huge building, but culturally it’s a very trashy place. So you’ll see trashy people going there in pajama pants and such, but everyone there is some degree of trashy to begin with
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u/becoolnloveme 9h ago
I spend about three-to-four months a year in Europe. The standard of how a person dresses when going out in public is uniformly higher in basically every European country. Almost everybody is dressed well enough. It shocking to many Europeans how Americans will attend class or go to the store in pajamas. It wouldn’t happen there.