What do you wear after work at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. If you're in for the night, what does it matter?

Good question. I do not get it either. She is in for the night, but does not want to wear sweatpants or pj's, ummm what else is left? lingerie? a prom dress? Who are we dressing up for? The three kids?

[Anonymous]

I get home at 4:30, so I have to wear something that is okay when someone ring the bell.

Always, something comfortable off course!

[Anonymous]

Athleta dresses. They are cheap and comfortable.

[Anonymous]

comfy yoga pants and a cotton cami

[Anonymous]

Jeans and a tshirt. If it's hot out then maybe shorts or capris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. If you're in for the night, what does it matter?

Good question. I do not get it either. She is in for the night, but does not want to wear sweatpants or pj's, ummm what else is left? lingerie? a prom dress? Who are we dressing up for? The three kids?

OP here -- dressing for me and my DH, whom I have been neglecting pretty badly these days.

Do you put on PJs at 630 pm? Dont' want sweats bc I am too fat.

Been married 21 years -- just looking for some ideas I may not have thought of. Geesh.

[Anonymous]

OP people are just being dumb. I get you I wear sweatpants... Well pretty much my standard crap outfit when I get home and we are newlyweds and my DH already complains.. ha. But I would suggest a cute juicy jumpsuit or something like that. Like a cute mathching comfy set.

[Anonymous]

We are not newly weds, so comfort over looks. I usually put on knit capri pants and my husbands white t-shirt without a bra. In case a neighbor stops by, I keep a light weight zippered-vest handy.

[Anonymous]

For those of you who wear cuter things at home, how much money do you typically spend on these things? I'd really love to look like less of a dirtbag but I hate to spend money on "home" clothes that I could be spending on stuff I actually wear in public. My evenings generally involve some combination of cooking, cleaning, feeding, bathing, etc., so I can rarely wear the same thing twice without washing, so I would need like 5-7 outfits--ouch. Even then I'm washing each thing every week and it doesn't take long for my stuff to get faded or stained.

What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Athleta dresses. They are cheap and comfortable.

It is posts like these that make me acutely aware of the income disparity on DCUM. I swear that just before checking DCUM, I was on Athleta looking at dresses. I had decided $80 was too much to spend on a "casual errand" dress and headed to Target.com.

And here I learn that Athleta was cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Athleta dresses. They are cheap and comfortable.

It is posts like these that make me acutely aware of the income disparity on DCUM. I swear that just before checking DCUM, I was on Athleta looking at dresses. I had decided $80 was too much to spend on a "casual errand" dress and headed to Target.com.

And here I learn that Athleta was cheap.

"Cheap" is relative. That's certainly not unique to the DC area. Other than maybe tiny Mayberry-type towns in the Midwest, there is income disparity everywhere. Do you not see it when you walk down the street? Do you not notice the people who check you out at Target or do the cleanup on aisle 7? Even your "cheap" Target dress mbye out of their reach. Do you assume these people couldn't be on DCUM? This is a public anonymous forum, the whole point is to hear from people with different perspective. f course you're going to have people with different perspectives.

In any case, I wouldn't assume that someone's idea of what is cheap has a direct correlation to their income.

[Anonymous]

PP, I just said that the post made me aware of the income disparity. I didn't say that there shouldn't be one, or that I was surprised that there was one, and I didn't judge anyone as wrong for having more disposable income. I was just commenting on what I thought was an interesting coincidence that I read that someone else referred to something as cheap immediately after I determined that it was too expensive.

No need to attack. It was just a simple comment.

[Anonymous]

Yoga pants and fitted t's from Old navy or Target.

[Anonymous]

Comfortable jeans are a worthy investment. Get ones with a little stretch in them, and a mid-rise waist so that you can still get down on the floor and play with the kids. I'm usually in jeans and a tshirt or sweatshirt. And I don't have to change if I have to run down the block to the store for something.

[Anonymous]

Plain lightweight tees (long or short sleeved) that are long enough to cover my waist when I reach/bend. I have a bunch of the basic ones from Nordstrom (their brand) -- they seem to come in every color and style and almost flatter my overweight self. I stock up when they go on sale. If I get home on the later side (and won't be going back outside) I put on yoga pants or cropped sweats and if I get home earlier I usually put on jeans. I have several longish open cardigans in lightweight wool, linen, and cotton that I wear over the tees with the jeans and I'm good to go. Not much variety, but by then I'm too fried to think.