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Got drunk and took her home, and we slept in our clothes

A Friday survey...

I'm curious about what people wear in bed. Not that I specifically want to know what you wear in bed, but I want to know what, in general, people wear. And you are part of my target sample of the human race. Aren't you lucky ?

[Poll #387682]

If you're wondering what a 'subest' is, it should say 'subset'. Damn :(

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Mmm - I sometimes choose nightwear for its coolness as well as for its warmth, and do deliberately have thicker pyjamas (the ones with pullover-style tops) for winter and thinner ones (the ones with shirt-style tops) for summer.

I'm idly thinking of getting one of those adult-sized romper suits as one-piece pyjama solutions. They look very cosy.

I'm idly thinking of getting one of those adult-sized romper suits as one-piece pyjama solutions. They look very cosy.

I once spent a winter sharing a house in Sheffield (with no heating and a limited subset of walls / floors) with, amongst others, a french chap who owned just such a romper suit (with the arse-flap and everything), and some kind of small floral motif on it. He would regularly been seen strolling around the house in that, a pair of slippers and a cravat.

It was actually pretty hard not to laugh.

I didn't always try.

You've got to award points for style to someone prepared to wear a get-up like that.

Er... haven't you ?

Do the points have to be greater than zero?

You've got to award points for style to someone prepared to wear a get-up like that.

Like I said, the dude was french. I don't think they have the same victory conditions as we do. When I met up with him again, a few years later, he was sporting a splendid Dali-style moustache.

Oh, and I've remembered the motif on his 'suit' was a kind of palm tree effort. Nice.

I have a romper suit. It's a one-piece pyjama affair, doesn't have an arse-flap, and it is very cosy:)

I'm curious about the romper suite with the arse-flap and how it was fastened ... Velcro maybe? Zips might be awkward to manoeuvre. And buttons would make sitting uncomfortable surely:?

I'm always somewhat perplexed by people who can manage to be in a bed wearing nothing at all with a similarly-attired partner and fall asleep. It's one of those things along with drinking coffee and liking The Smiths that just don't make any sense to me.

A question for you back: Why are such a high proportion of blokes' pyjamas incredibly unaesthetic ? (Answers other than "To accurately reflect their contents" particularly sought !)

Because all the young, handsome, sexy blokes are choosing to sleep naked, thus leaving pyjama-purchasing as the reserve of the, er, more reserved elderly market ?

Possibly, but I'd like to think that when I'm 60 I still won't regard nasty shades of plum/burgundy, turquoise/jade or mustard/vomit as preferable to black !

It is quite puzzling. I live in Germany, and it being very cold here I tried to get my boyfriend a nice pair of pyjamas, not wanting him to freeze to death in the night, that being an even less alluring option than the wearing of the pyjamas (unless one is into that sort of thing). It was, bizarrely enough, impossible. I could get something almost respectable-looking if I was prepared to pay about 50€ (which I'm not). I could pick up a set of Del-Boy style luminous sateen jobs for just a liitle less. The affordable shop basically had a whole load with a design withgolfers printed on them, which is surreal. No wonder the birthrate here is so low...

There would appear to be a bit of a gap in the market...

From the answers so far, it seems all but two people own dressing gowns (and I know one of the non-owners is lying :)

Are dressing-gowns a related-to-going-to-bed thing, or more related to, say, getting-to-and-from-the-shower ?

for me they're mostly a getting-up-and-lolling-around-the-flat-at-the-weekend thing

I have a dressing gown for when I can't be arsed to get dressed before breakfast when I'm staying with my parents, and similar situations. Also in winter it's handy for wandering about the flat at dead of night with insomnia without getting hypothermia too :-)

Mine's related to the shower and getting-up-from-bed. Going to bed involves switching from day-clothes to night-clothes quickly, so a dressing gown is unnecessary. Getting up, OTOH, can be a much more drawn out process.

A lolling-on-the-sofa-with-a-mug-of-tea-and-a-copy-of-the-grauniad thing with me.

You didn't ask how many dressing gowns...

Until recently I was in possession of four.

One old towelling one most recently used as an LRP prop that was also the last time I wore "proper" pyjamas; one smaller old towelling one I seem to have purloined from my father some time in the last ten years; one ~amusing~ Wallace & Grommit dressing gown reserved for summer lounging and finally a recent huge warm fuzzy fleecy thing that is more comfortable and decent than 75% of the rest of my clothes.

The smaller towelling one is now in the pile marked "rat bedding" as I think they'll appreciate it more no matter how much watching Troy makes me want to get gut buff, bronzed and wear indecently short clothing.

TMI yet? ;-)

My Dressing gown is rarely used (a sad stgate of affairs).

Between bedroom and bathroom a towel is generally wraped around my waist and I tend to get dressed rather than dithering about in a blue robe in the mornings. Mainly from habit and partly because I tend to go and get the paper before having breakfast.

> Are dressing-gowns a related-to-going-to-bed thing, or more related to, say, getting-to-and-from-the-shower ?

If you go for the "no clothes in bed" option they're essential for any form of moving about the house between undressing and dressing again. [The postman would otherwise be a bit bothered, that's for sure!]

On a cold winter evening a hot bath and then slobbing on the sofa with the fire going can't be beaten. Similarly between getting up and showering/getting dressed [I tend to rise quite early and don't shower until the rest of the household is up, lest I wake them].

So "yes" to both of your options.

Dressing gowns are definitely a getting-up thing: needing to get around the flat while other people are in it, but not having showered and put on clean clothes. Putting on the previous day's clothes is also an option, but a dressing gown is faster.

Since the office is also in the flat, I can claim that I wear my dressing gown to work. You probably didn't want to know that.

They're a "wearing in the morning while you have breakfast and before you shower" thing for me. Well, at least, my big warm towelling one is. I also have a slinky silk one which is more for decency's sake in the summer, when visiting people or answering the door to the postman or whatever.

I only ever wear my dressing gown in the evening if I've had a bath/shower within an hour or two of going to bed, which is pretty uncommon. Otherwise, I wear it for any post-bedtime wandering around the house if it's cold (or if we have a house guest), for going to the shower if it's cold or we have a house guest (coming from the shower, I wear towels), or occasionally over my lounging-around-the-house pyjamas on non-working mornings.

I tend to wear my dressing gown to loll about at weekends, but it also serves the handy function of allowing me not to get dressed first thing in the morning if I have guests staying (or if I'm staying with guests, conversely).

I own multiple dressing gowns. One should always keep a spare, clean one around for guests, given that they will rarely travel with good "walk down the hall to the bathroom" wear.

By 'normal clothes exclusively reserved for nightware' I generally mean normal clothes that are now so full of holes that continuing to use them as daywear would incur general derision

Of course if you're wearing nothing it's a subset of what you wore that day...

But that case is specifically excluded by the preceding condition. ;-)

Indeed - I was wondering why she bothered.

Mumble mumble bloody literalist minded scientists mumble.

:)

Less of the 'scientist', if you please!

Only if you can put a convincing case for being an artist!

Would you describe a theologian as a scientist?

I'm not sure. Possibly more scientist than artist, to be honest.
Depends on their approach to theology ;)

Pure, of course!

Maybe "subest" means "proper subset". Which leaves an open case of sleeping in everything you wore during the day, but removes the overlap.

Is it my imagination or is it perfectly acceptable for a woman to wear "male" clothes to bed... but as soon as the reverse situation arises, it's suddenly freak-branding time?

Well, there's a certain amount of functionality to it. I mean, a woman in men's pajamas is still going to be fairly close to the ideal cut of the outfit. It's going to accentuate everything above the collar, won't be outrageously misforming the hips of the pants, and... well, basically look ordinary.

Whereas almost all women's nightwear--slips, nightgowns, etc.--at least slightly accentuate the bust and hips. Even on a woman with not much in the way of a bust-line, there's still something that the plunging neckline is going to call attention towards. Whereas... well, if I were in a nightgown, that "neckline" is going to be calling attention to rather uninteresting areas of anatomy, and the bits which are interesting on men--say, broad shoulders--are hardly going to be well-served.

So it's not that unlikely.

Who are these 10 people who usually wear something, but don't bother packing it if they're going to be staying in a hotel?

I took the first tickybox as meaning "I usually wear pyjamas" and the rest as implicitly starting "I don't usually wear pyjamas but". You can argue with this interpretation of the rubric if you like :-)

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