Katie Price's son Harvey jumps for joy as he gets a very special surprise from Barney the dinosaur on his 20th birthdayДЄmber Turner hits out at 'false' TOWIE cast - branding newcomers 'desperate for stories' as she accuses them of targeting her The social-welfare office decided, quite rightly, that if you canвЂ™t be bothered to get dressed before you sign on, youвЂ™re not going to convince anyone youвЂ™re available for work. The very fact that staff had to announce a ban suggests the pyjama habit was widespread. Bunny slippers too, sometimes.Д®arlier this year in Dublin, a dole office banned pyjamas. In Liverpool and in my old home town of Leicester, they wear them to buy their cigs, to push their children to the park, to run down to the chippy. IвЂ™m not talking about silk palazzo jammies. ThereвЂ™d already been a trend in recent years for a certain type of woman to wear pyjamas all day. The onesie didnвЂ™t arrive on the fashion scene out of a clear blue sky. They suck on energy drinks and communicate with each other thus: вЂCU 2nite.вЂ™ Yes, IвЂ™d say the onesie is the perfect item for the Eloi wardrobe. IвЂ™m pretty sure IвЂ™ve met a few Morlocks, and the Eloi are definitely already among us.

His story is set around 800,000 years from now, but look around you. Wells was frighteningly prescient about the fate of the human race, but he was way off target with his dates. The Eloi were soft babyish creatures, who communicated by means of a very rudimentary language and lolloped around doing nothing much. The Morlocks were troglodytes, underground knuckle-grazers who ventured out only after dark. In it, he foresaw a world inhabited by Eloi and Morlocks.

WeвЂ™re being encouraged to be infantile, to keep our mouths clamped firmly on the GovernmentвЂ™s teat and always have a hold of Nurse. These are little things, but they all point in the same direction. These newlyweds decided to make their special day more personal by marrying in their favourite fleece outfits So did my parents - and my own children have all endured their share of grotty shared bathrooms and the smell of mice.ДЄnd the bride wore. I started married life living in one room. When I remark on this, people tell me how hard it is for children to set up on their own these days.Д®xcuse me, but it was always hard. Today, many 30-year-olds still live at home with Mum and Dad. And astonishingly, the human race survived. That was what distinguished them from helpless infants. Grown-ups used to make their own decisions and live with the consequences. We live in a world of guidelines, monitoring, safety nets, hard hats, airbags, and health-and-safety windbags. There are few aspects of our lives over which Nanny or Matron or the Department of Paper Clips doesnвЂ™t insist on knowing best and we accept it. We are now advised, sheltered and protected from cradle to grave. The nation has finally found the clothes to match its mood.Д¬onsider the evidence. WeвЂ™re turning into a society of big babies, and the onesie is the garment of the age. I believe this is because its significance runs deeper than its longevity as a fashion fad. But if anything, it seems the onesieвЂ™s popularity is growing. Onesie nation: Holly Willoughby (left with Phillip Schofield) and Tom Daley (right) show their colours in the perfect outfit for an infantilised nationДЄfter a few chipped teeth and broken lampstands, the fascination ended, as I assumed it would for the onesie, too.

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