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Every single day I go down to the street in my pajamas.

Yes. The truth is that it is extremely pleasant to feel the softness of that soft fabric (synthetic, okay) against your skin, which caresses you with each step you take, ris-ras-ris-ras... It's as if, in addition to You go down to the street, the warmth of your bed, the softness of the mattress, the softness of the Nordic quilt and even the last dream of the early morning go down with you.

Because I go down to the street in my pajamas at seven in the morning.

And no, I'm not going to the supermarket, I'm going to take my dog ​​out.

And also on top of the pajamas I wear jeans, a sweater, an anorak, a hat, gloves, socks, slippers.

Come on, I live in pajamas, but I don't exhibit pajamas.

And it's a good thing, because they still beat me to the punches, given what has been seen in the planetary debate that has been organized around that

lifestyle

baptized by the French NBN, Netflix-Baguette-Netflix, which apparently spreads in the big capitals and spreads like the

cordyceps

fungus of 'The Last of Us', to the annoyance of many.

It bothers us to share space with people who go directly in their pajamas, but it seems to me that we don't really know why.

If lack of respect, of civility is used, the truth is that other aspects of the body and clothing should offend us much more, but we do not say a word about them.

For example, those people whose clothes reek of stale sweat.

There are too many, let's be honest.

And there they are, so proud, despite the violence that their presence expels.

In fact, I would prefer that everyone go through life in their pajamas if that were a guarantee that all of humanity was going to smell good, wouldn't you?

For aesthetic reasons it cannot be controversial either.

After all, we've been using the catwalk up-catwalk down pajama style for a decade now, there isn't an international designer who hasn't already agreed with this trend or a

celebrity

who hasn't stood up to it at a

photocall,

are we going to be offended now because

Selena Gomez

walk around Manhattan in pajamas?

Or because my neighbor puts the feathers on top of her satin pajamas to go to Pepe Chen?

Surely if it was in heels instead of sports no one would have any objection.

And that, not to mention the speck in someone else's eye and the beam in our own, what a bad memory we have, oh... Because... who hasn't had a grandmother, an aunt, a mother-in-law in the town. .. of those who went with a boatiné gown and curlers on their heads to get the bread, holy god?

I don't understand how the fever for the

little town

started by writers like

Ana Iris Simón

's hasn't already caused a series of essays on the benefits of the boatiné-barra' pan tandem, so

authentic.

What bothers us so much about people who go down the street in their pajamas is that they break the protocol, the rules, and that always makes us a little nervous.

As Katja Eichinger

told us ,

the author of 'Fashion and other neuroses' does nothing, clothing is a language, and like any language, it is a complex exchange, where there is no shortage of misunderstandings.

Eichinger, in fact, says that the way we present our bodies to our fellow men is an essential element of our interaction with them.

What we wear are signs, but it is also loaded with symbols.

The fact that I display my pajamas (if I finally decide to do so) in the supermarket on the corner speaks to others of a challenge: I am telling them that I pass the rules of coexistence through the Arc de Triomphe;

that I unilaterally decide to take a part of my intimate universe to a public area.

Between going to the supermarket in panties and going to the badulaque in pajamas there is less distance than it seems.

In both cases it is a transgression,

A little deeper into the matter, the quality that sleepwear has, and that it shares with underwear, is that it is almost-almost the body, so close to our skin.

The problem we have with those who go to the supermarket in their pajamas is that they disgust us.

Because pajamas are a garment that you don't usually wash every day (hopefully once a week), a garment that rubs against our body for hours, an intimate condom in which you leave your trace.

of sweat.

And that optimistically.

Because there are those who wear pajamas without underwear.

And they are not wrong, because as dictated by the second rule of good use of pajamas published by the legendary Tatler magazine in 2017, "please, no underwear under pajamas".

We are scandalized by people who go shopping in their pajamas because of their lack of empathy with those of us who make the effort to dress according to the rules of social protocol.

It bothers us that they move around us not naked, but too intimate, organic.

Of course, that a grandfather walks down the street in summer without a shirt seems to all of us great, who knows why.

I'm about to try it myself, see what happens.

But in summer, now it's winter and I need to continue going down the street in my pajamas.

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