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Louisiana Lawmaker Moves to Outlaw Public Pajamas

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If you’re heading down to the deep south city of Shreveport, Louisiana and thinking of keeping cool and comfortable by wearing pajama bottoms in public, think again:

Caddo Parish District 3 Commissioner Michael Williams…said after seeing a group of young men at a local Walmart wearing pajama pants that revealed one young man’s private parts, he decided to push for an ordinance that would prohibit wearing pajama pants in public.

“Pajamas are designed to be worn in the bedroom at night,” Williams said. “If you can’t (wear pajamas) at the Boardwalk or courthouse, why are you going to do it in a restaurant or in public? Today it’s pajamas,” Williams said. “Tomorrow it’s underwear. Where does it stop?”

I for one think that Williams isn’t going far enough up the slippery slope to indecency. Those pajamas are a direct result of legalized shorts-wearing, which of course come directly from the insidious influence of capri pants. Ban them all!

Read more at USA Today.

  1. Matthew, you make light of it, but to me it is a question of decency AND sanitation. I don’t care to see anyones privates while I am shopping. Except for leg length what is the difference between pjs and boxers (and would those progress to briefs).
    Droopy crack revealing pants are bad enough….. I guess it all depends on how far germs can travel by air in the produce section. Yuck.

  2. This is feel good legislation. There are already public decency laws prohibiting the exposure of genitalia in public. Of course, the locale was Walmart, which is not a public space. Shoppers dressed in pajamas seems to have economic overtones that eclipse decency and sanitation.

    There is also a problem of defining pajamas. Do sweatpants become pajamas and then become illegal if I wore them to bed once, and then go out running?

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