Shanghai residents feel ambivalent about the new city recommendations not to walk round with pajamas.
That was a tough call for them because Shanghai people are well-known to do that.
Shanghai residents, young and old, run errands in alleyways, take shelter from the summer heat or roam supermarket aisles in search of bargains, all in pajamas.
People wearing pajamas in public have been a hallmark of Shanghai street culture for decades, Chosun Ilbo said Saturday, citing Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post.
Ahead of the World Expo the city hosts this year, the municipal authorities are engaging in public etiquette clampdown targeting the practice, fearing it could leave a bad impression among foreign visitors,
The initiative has split public opinion. Some see pajama-wearing in public as an embarrassment, while others view it as a tradition, if not a citizen’s due civil right.
The crackdown on pajama-wearing in public has reminded many of a similar crackdown in Beijing ― on the capital's hordes of topless males ― ahead of the summer Olympics in 2008, the article said.