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

[venta]

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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A further question

[venta.livejournal.com]

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 ?

Re: A further question

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

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

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[pm215]

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 :-)

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[wimble.livejournal.com]

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.

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[nalsa.livejournal.com]

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

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[kneeshooter]

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? ;-)

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[narenek.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: A further question

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

> 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.

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[timeplease.livejournal.com]

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.

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[sushidog.livejournal.com]

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.

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[triskellian]

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.

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[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

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).

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[condign.livejournal.com]

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.