NOT JUST YOUR MOTHERS PJ’S

A few weeks ago I mailed a huge Xmas box of pj’s, robes, boxers and “sleepy items” to my sisters, nieces and nephews in Texas. The box of goodies came from our company sample sale.

I purposely selected a few items I thought could be worn outside as well as inside in bed, like plaid boxers and polar fleece drawstring pants or thermal tee shirts and polar fleece “sweatshirts”. I also sent a few of the more traditional robes and even a bed jacket, the kind of things that cannot or should I say, should not be worn on the street.

I did not give instructions on wearing any of the garments, I did not say “feel free to wear your jammies to the park” or “if you don’t look to closely, that robe could be a coat”, I just assumed they would figure it out and wear whatever, whenever. The one item that I thought might not have any takers at all was the bed-jacket. I mean really, a bed-jacket in the year 2015 is a little odd, even the name is off putting. It was button front in cream brushed micro-fleece, it had two front pockets, a band collar, and it stopped just below the waist. Not sure why I bought it but I sent it anyway.

A week after I sent the box, I was on Facebook going thru the many posts by my Texas crew and lo and behold….of all the articles of sleepwear to make it to the “small screen”, it was the bed jacket, and my 10year old niece was wearing it! I was so confused, and so was she when I called her up……..

“So J you wound up with the bed jacket”?

“What’s that?”….

“It’s that “thing” I saw you wearing on Facebook that’s warm and cozy, you know the cream jacket that was in the box”?

“ That’s a bed jacket, what’s a bed jacket, who wears a jacket to bed?”

“Yeah okay, whatever, but you liked it huh?”

“Hmmm, I guess so”.

I would have never styled it with shorts and sneakers but she rocked it, in fact it looked perfectly normal and it just goes to show you how much the lines have blurred between, innerwear and outerwear, women’s wear and kids’ wear, and even between men’s wear and women’s wear…one of the robes I sent for my sister was mistaken for a men’s robe by my niece.

The good old days of the traditional pajamas are fading, they are now trends to be worn whenever you want, with whatever you want, and I for one think that is a very good thing.

#lounge