I don’t know about pajama pants’ being obvious. The stores are full of printed or striped drawstring-waisted or elastic-waisted pants that look like pajama pants to me.
http://www.barneys.com/rag-%26-bone-harvey-pants-504044207.html#start=48
http://www.barneys.com/two-ikat-striped-trousers-504024683.html#sz=48&start=82
Who dresses up for Thai food? Shorts and t shirt are perfectly acceptable. Uh oh, I’m wearing a tshirt, jeans and tennis shoes in a nice Italian restaurant, but thank God,this is Seattle, nobody cares! Maybe I should update my closet, that and athletic clothes are mostly what I have, what a lowlife I must be!
As far as going places in workout clothes, well, most everyone does that around here because they’re always on their way to exercise. As far as doing things afterwards, I guess it depends upon how sweaty you are. I just made epic time up Mt Si, and was drenched. However, I still did a chore on the way home, and I doubt anyone even noticed.
Yesterday I saw a pair of what I thought were pajama pants. Nope…they were very expensive elastic drawstring silk pants from Orvis. But really…they looked like pajamas. I almost bought them because I thought they would be comfortable for flying on long trips.
What do you think they’d say down at the Thai restaurant about this outfit?
http://www.barneys.com/the-row-evelyn-drawstring-pants-504014511.html#sz=48&start=68
I think it’s OK because it’s silk and only has a “mock fly” ;
Did you notice that I changed into my pajamas? They’re a bit dressier than my others as I’m headed out to walk the dog.
Yep…my Orvis silk ones looked like that. But not that price!!
The girl embarrassed her hosts, and that to me makes thinking about ones’ attire worth it. Unless one doesn’t care about whether they embarrass their host or not. In which case it may be the last invitation they get, but from what I’m hearing, the feeling would be mutual if they knew their hosts were embarrassed by gym shorts.
She would probably feel humiliated if she knew that she’d embarrassed them.
Where did it say the girl embarrassed her hosts? The hosts actually changed the dinner venue to accommodate the whole visiting family…and the host said it worked out well.
Where is the embarrassment?
Oh my nottelling! That’s the very definition of unflattering.
Whoops, sorry for the slip up of vocabulary. I said pajamas instead of sweats. Sweats are pajamas me, but pajamas aren’t necessarily sweats…if that makes sense.
I mean these type thingies:
http://www.fashionablylo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/joggers.jpg
…although I’ve worn palazzo pants and they’re mighty similar to those pajamas mentioned above! 
http://www.bestmode.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2014-street-fashion-trends-for-women-t53gumup.jpg
Fallenchemist- You are referring to me. At least in my world, there’s no problem going into a coffee shop, Dunkin or quick stop in workout clothes. Our running groups have frequently gone out to breakfast after runs. Many of us will change into a dry shirt- some folks don’t for one reason or another. We are fit runners and in our area it doesn’t seem to be a big deal. People go lots of places (just usually not out to dinner) in running clothes.
It may be my age or the way and where I grew up. But the way you dress reflects many things. These include the respect you have for the people you are interacting with, respect for the situation and respect for yourself.
I have seen people at weddings and funerals in faded jeans and t- shirts. I have seen some of my academic peers meet candidates for employment wearing jeans and t-shirts. I have seen male candidates for tenure track assistant professor positions show up in open collar shirts with slacks and females in jeans.
One of the things I love about Europe is that people dress dressier. It’s classy IMO. I also love how they do breakfast, for instance, vs America where breakfast is part of the price. In Europe you usually have tablecloths, glass containers for milk, jelly, butter. Tables have flowers. Everything about it is elegant. In America, people come to breakfast in their pj’s and are grabbing for fake eggs, butter and jelly in little plastic containers with fake cream for their coffee.
My point is, it is an analogy how they do breakfast and dress and how we do it here.
thumper,
The host was embarrassed that her choice of restaurant was not appropriate for her guest’s attire, so she changed the restaurant to avoid the embarrassment of bringing a guest inappropriately dressed into the restaurant she intially selected.
She was told AHEAD what the girl had in her travel wardrobe insert eye roll
Yes but she told them they were going to a cool Thai restaurant then changed it to burgers after finding out about the gym shorts. Insert double eye roll
As someone who goes to Thai restaurants all over the US, insert triple eye roll that one dresses up to eat Thai
It must be more of a regional thing, as I wouldn’t consider dressing up for Thai or burgers.
The OP described it as a “very cool Thai restaurant.” It may have been a new upscale place, not a hole in the wall place.
People seem to have a lot of opinions about stuff that does not matter! FWIW, I train later in the afternoon, and will sometimes run errands , and recently met someone for a late lunch (self serve, not sit down with wait staff) in my exercise clothes ( t shirt over sports bra and capri length yoga pants or leggings) so I didnt have to change again before working out. If someone had issue with what I was wearing, thats their problem. I was in clean clothes. they didnt smell. If I have worked out in the morning, I have occasionally stopped at the store to pick something up on my way home.I often see people intheir tennis clothes. Whats the big deal?
