12/07/2025
🎉 15,736 Pajamas — and Every One Counted!
This year, we set out on a mission: to make the Belmont Shore Christmas Parade the coziest celebration ever — and you delivered.
🧦 4,040 pajama-clad parade participants
đź‘€ 11,691 spectators in pajamas lining 2nd Street
🍽️ (And that doesn’t include the ones we couldn’t count — like all the folks inside restaurants, shops, or gathered at holiday parties throughout the neighborhood!)
We didn’t guess. We counted.
✔️ Parade participant counter at the start
✔️ Dedicated team stationed on every block tallying pajamas
Although we applied twice to Guinness World Records and never heard back, we didn’t let that stop us. With your help, we set our own record — and absolutely crushed it.
The marching bands wore pajamas.
The bike groups wore pajamas.
The dancers, the corgis, the cheerleaders — even the mayor rocked PJs. 💙
From flannel to fleece, footies to festive onesies, you brought the spirit — and helped make history.
From all of us at the Belmont Shore Business Association — THANK YOU for the love, the laughs, and the record-worthy holiday cheer. 🎄✨
📚 Records Context — What’s Official, What’s Not
• According to Guinness World Records, the official record for the largest gathering of people wearing two-piece pajamas (single venue) is 2,051 people, set by IKEA (Sweden) in August 2024. 
• For one-piece pajamas / onesies, the largest recorded gathering is 1,879 people, achieved in Shantou, China in 2015. 
• That means — even if our 4,040 parade participants were all wearing pajamas — we surpassed the existing official record by nearly double.
• That said: our claim remains unofficial — because (as of now) we haven’t received confirmation or certification from Guinness.
• Nonetheless, within our community and for our own “Shore record,” 15,736 pajamas counted (participants + spectators) represents an unprecedented gathering — likely one of the largest pajama-clad community holiday events in recent years (even if unofficial).
