How far would you go in your slippers?

Would you put the bin out in them? Go to the corner shop? Drive to the supermarket? Or would you walk around town wearing them?

Chances are you may admit to the first, possibly even the second, but surely nobody would wander around a supermarket or go into town wearing their slippers.

Apparently there are mothers who shuffle to the school gates in coats pulled over pyjamas, but I think even they might draw the line at wearing slippers in the street.

It seems, however, that people aren’t quite so discerning when it comes to onesies.

I can’t get my head around why anyone over the age of about three would want to wear a onesie – something that is, let’s face it, an overgrown babygrow – in the privacy of their own home, let alone in public.

Somehow it has become perfectly acceptable for grown adults to loll around their living-room wearing these strange one-pieces, looking like giant toddlers. They might as well wear nappies and suck dummies to complete the look.

There is now even a trend for ‘twosies’ or ‘twinsies’, presumably for those nauseating couples who feel the need to be literally joined at the hip. Why on earth you would want to be stuck in a sweaty babygrow with someone who insists on watching Match Of The Day?

I don’t even like seeing children wearing onesies, although they can just about get away with it. But I despair of adults who wear them – even more so when they venture outside in their one-piece monstrosities.

I recently saw a woman strolling up Darley Street in Bradford city centre sporting what looked like a Christmas pudding-style onesie. She looked ridiculous, yet nobody batted an eyelid. “Is it just me or is it wrong to wear a onesie for doing your shopping in town?” I asked my friend who, thankfully, thought it just as cringe-worthy as I did.

As far as I’m concerned, once you open your front door and go outside wearing a onesie in public, that’s it – a part of you has given up on life. You might as well go to work or to a shopping centre in your dressing-gown.

Onesies seem to be the latest stage in the trend for sloppy casual wear, now so commonplace in the street. It’s the norm to slouch around in tracksuit bottoms and hoodies; rejecting any sense of style or even self-respect.

I guess it’s nothing new – in the Eighties it was shellsuits. Maybe this year the fashion will change yet again – and people might actually get dressed before they leave the house.