Further to my post about lifting my game with regards to my
at-home wear, I decided to try and get some cuter stuff to lounge about and
sleep in.
I like to be covered at night - in the winter, it's flannelette pyjamas and a quilt up to my ears and even in the warmer weather, I prefer to have something on. Preferably the air conditioner, so I can still sleep under a quilt.
I like to be covered at night - in the winter, it's flannelette pyjamas and a quilt up to my ears and even in the warmer weather, I prefer to have something on. Preferably the air conditioner, so I can still sleep under a quilt.
For the last few years, I’ve favoured oversized souvenir
t-shirts from various American locales which need to be consigned to
the rag bag and Cotton On patterned lounge pants I bought for my maternity
hospital stay last year. These are all okay, even if the leopard print pair (my
favourite) are looking a little shabby from constant wear.
I’m not looking for anything lacy/satiny/slippery/sexy because lol and I haven’t
done a nightie since primary school. So cotton-style pyjamas and comfy loungewear it is.
Obviously, spending a fortune on stuff to sleep in is
against my frugalista principles, so sozz, Peter Alexander.
One problem I find in
these places is that it’s difficult to get something without a cutesy motif, cheesy
sleep-related slogan, demands for coffee or a faux French motto.
I checked out Kmart pyjama sets. Here's a sample offering.
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| I feel like a middle-aged woman in an XL Tweety-Bird tee-shirt and with a Hello Kitty phone cover |
Do we all become 12 year old school girls when we head for bed? Actually, that sounds wrong. You know what I mean.
What’s wrong with a nice bold geometric logo and matching patterned pant? Or a Breton stripe? Plain tops seem so grim, the lace trim ribbon neckline elderly and those Henley-style buttons, why??
And seriously, would it kill anyone to have some sort of
built-in support shelf? I don’t want to wear a bra or crop top to bed but if we have
visitors stay over, I also don’t want to do a toilet run or early morning
wake-up with everything bouncing around like a jumping castle on a windy day. Singlet tops are most definitely out
for this reason, I do not need escaping hanging side boob.
I bought a sleep tee from Cotton On Body with a print of the
Eiffel Tower (just barely acceptable in terms of fromage factor) for $10.
I’d probably have had more of a
look around the store if the toddler didn’t decide that tottering around, throwing carefully stacked piles of g-strings on the
floor and getting handprints on the mirrors was good fun. After I’d weathered two conniptions trying to wrestle her back into the pram, I was too
flustered to take much more of a look and just grabbed the tee - did I want to pop it in a charity - NO THANKS . . . did I want any of the water bottles for - JUST THE TOP, PLEASE.
I checked out Target online. $20 for a striped sleep tee? Are
you having a laugh, Target? When I just bought tops to actually wear out of the house
from Kmart for $5 each? Come on. Their offerings were either slippery chemise sets,
homely brushed cotton stripes or $89 Missoni for Target pyjama sets. LOL. That’s
more than what most of my daily outfits cost.
I took my search online and browsed the ASOS sale.
Oh this is cute, I could do this and the price is right . . .
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| Espirit pyjamas from ASOS |
Unavailable in my size. Boo.
The search continues.
And I still haven't thrown those big baggy faded t-shirts out yet.
And I still haven't thrown those big baggy faded t-shirts out yet.
- November 14, 2014
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