BS: Women's nightgowns

Subject: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 08:05 AM

Jeri posted something on the weird weather thread that brought up a question.
I've always wondered why most women wear some sort of garment to bed. I've never been able to sleep with any kind of clothes on.Pajamas are like an Iron Maiden to me.

Ok, ladies, explain.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 08:17 AM

Modesty is becoming.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Nancy King
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 08:28 AM

Because we just don't look good naked anymore.

And, in my case, because my arms and shoulders get cold when I read in bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 08:28 AM

warmth....?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 08:36 AM

Marilyn Monroe's choice of bedware was Chanell No.5.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 08:47 AM

Does it have anything to do with a primitive need for security?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 08:59 AM

Hiv you ever tried runnin ooto a burnin hoose in the middle o the night in front o big burly firemen innatures wet suit. It does not look good on the front page of the local newspaper on Thursday morning.

Besides it has one of two effects:) If you are a goddess your house burns down while the firemen swoon in delight.
If yer a wobbly auld wifie they faint in shock and have to be revived to fight the fire.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:01 AM

"Marilyn Monroe's choice of bedware was Chanell No.5."~~~

~~~ and, asked if it was true that she had been in bed with nothing on, replied, "No; I had the radio on."

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: maeve
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:04 AM

Indeed, Meg.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Becca72
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:10 AM

First, I'd rather sleep naked than wear a nightgown...damned thing always ends up wrapped up around yer throat.
BUT, for comfort, warmth and in case of fire I wear pajamas/sweatpants/tee shirts whatever. I am far more comfortable sleeping in clothes than not.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:22 AM

My pants are right on the floor where I can step into them if need be.

My ex once mentioned to her maiden Aunt that I slept naked, and she was appalled. She said, "What if there was a fire"? I said, "I just wouldn't go to it."

If I don't have time to pull my pants on, I don't have time to get out of the house either.

So, the remote possibility that the house might burn down is more important than being comfortable? If my life was at stake I couldn't care less what the firemen thought!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Becca72
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:23 AM

Maeve,
Fire drill @ my father's house...you in? :-)
(you'll need to be the spotter - I ain't lookin!)

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: maeve
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:31 AM

Kendall-
"If I don't have time to pull my pants on, I don't have time to get out of the house either."

Speaking from fresh experience, we didn't have time to pull anything on. We just got out. TL neared hypothermia in the sub-zero temperatures; I had on layers and wool socks and was warm. Considering the daily house fires in Maine it's not such a long chance.

Becca- Fire drill, sure; but not spotting nuffink, me!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Becca72
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:34 AM

Excellent point re Maine winter, Maeve!

Hey, where's Sinsull? She'll spot for us...

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:55 AM

So, it sounds like you wouldn't be caught dead naked.
Do the dead know they are naked?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: John P
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:55 AM

I've lived with five women. The first wore underpants for security. The second wore nothing. The third wore long nightgowns because they made her feel sexy. The fourth wore everything she could get away with because she was cold all the time. The fifth wears nothing.

My question is, why do so many people think anything that a man or a woman does means they are representatives of the entire gender, or that there is any reasoning for their actions that applies across the board?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Becca72
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:57 AM

Or that one way is the best way for everyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: maeve
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 10:05 AM

And from what research does the initial question arise?

When's the fire drill, Becca?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 10:06 AM

I wear nothing at all and have slept like this all my adult life. I hate being 'trussed up' in bed. But I keep my dressing gown right beside the bed in case I need to get up for any reason. My duvet is goose down and 13 Tog. If I did wear a nightie I'd be roasted alive!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 10:16 AM

Spotting here:
Have you seen the white whale??????

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Becca72
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 10:20 AM

Bahahaha..No, Mary, that's what we have you here for!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 10:29 AM

I keep the house quite cool at night this time of year, and I have a down comforter on the bed. If I head to the bathroom I don't want to put on a cool robe, I sleep a longish (mid-thigh) t-shirt that is comfortable and keeps warmth in long enough to visit the loo and hop back into bed. In the summer I wear the same long t-shirts because it's so hot here and I don't cool the house below 80. I have a ceiling fan on and usually a cotton sheet if the breeze makes my feet cool. Summer time sleeping in a t-shirt with no covers is comfortable.

We don't plan on a house fire here, but as others have mentioned, there isn't a lot of time for reaction if one occurs. I'll feel lucky if I can account for everyone who was in the house in the short time available for response. I don't want to be fooling with finding something to wear.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 10:43 AM

I wear an ankle length flannelette nightshirt in the winter, and a Tee shirt in the months allegedly known as summer.
Our house isn't overly warm,(central heating off at night) and I prefer it that way, so when I get up (several times) in the night for a pee, I prefer not to freeze my cojones off.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 11:45 AM

Good question, Kendall.

1. I suppose people get used to nightware when they are young and share the house with other children and roommates.

2. A lot of places are so cold that pj's are necessary.

3. Parents put nightware on kids so that when they get up, they are covered.

4. To me, my nightgown signals that it's time for sleep. It's part of the process of going to sleep.

5. I do get up and move around at night, and I like to have something on.

6. My final point, and this is something I think all people should think about, comes from an article in the paper about women buying cars. The article said that "Women today feel deeply vulnerable." Thus they buy cars bigger than they need. They also have nightware because to be naked is to vulnerable.

I guess all the violence we hear about gets to us at a deep level. I'll tell you one thing. Recently my husband wanted to wake me up at 3 am to start a trip to Europe. He touched my shoulder, and I screamed and came up swinging. (He was quite startled.) We agreed that from then on, he would wake me up by calling my name from several feet away and not touching me.

"Deeply vulnerable" seems to include fear of being attacked while sleeping.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Charmion
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:16 PM

I wear a sleeveless ankle-length nightie in winter and nothing in summer. In winter, my back and sometimes my feet feel cold, and a nightie handily solves both problems -- I hike my feet up inside.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:26 PM

Is the anticipated response on wearing women's nightgowns to bed limited to women?

Just wondering :)

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:29 PM

Not that it is without merit, to some

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:31 PM

There was a young lady, most odd,
Whose baby, she said; came from God,
But twas not the almighty
Who crept up her mightie.
It was Roger the lodger, the sod!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:32 PM

SKELP

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:43 PM

I WON'T SAY, BEING A GENTLEMAN, HOW MUCH RESEARCH I HAVE DONE PERSONALLY, BUT I WILL STATE THAT MOST WOMEN I'VE KNOWN WEAR SOME SORT OF CLOTHING TO BED.49 OUT 0F 50.

LEENEIA HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:49 PM

Aye, and the bugger sleeps lekked.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:51 PM

ED T thats a scream!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:52 PM

I agree with Leeneia - vulnerability has a lot to do with it, for me, at least.

If you ladies want to do a fire drill give me warning and I'll put the ear plugs in and sleep through it. Can't see the sense in my having a disturbed night while you lot go looking for Moby Dick.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:53 PM

It shouldn't be too hard to find, he sleeps naked.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:56 PM

Sorry about the capitals up there. I have to look at the keyboard when I type.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 12:57 PM

Now I know who the Cappn is and i ken wha Kendall is but wha the heck is Moby???
*grabs coat and heads for cover

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 01:16 PM

As a resident project engineer in my mid-twenties, I stayed at motels three weeks on with a weekend at home. I began wearing nightclothes after I realized than the bedsheets are not always changed bewteen guests (don't ask on accounta you don't wanna know how I found that out - let's just say I didn't pay that night's stay). Plus, I keep it cold in the house year round and I'd freeze getting out of the bunk especially since I lost over a hundred pounds. (Since I lost weight, I have had to keep the daytime temp about 4C above what I used to keep it at even tho I wear a hoodie most of the time.)

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 01:26 PM

I once got -er -trapped during a fire drill. My then girlfriend's room was part of the fire escape route in a whole block of female physiotherapists at a certain hospital and while she could leap out and retreat in a dressing gown I had to stay peering embarrassedly out of the sheets until I could retrieve my trousers to get out of bed.   I also once locked myself out of a hotel room in no nightclothes but luckily found a large towel in an unlocked bathroom!

At home I wear what I please since my dog is not easily embarrassed, and keep a huge dressing gown in case people stop over without pleasurable intent.

I have never worn a woman's nightgown, but I don't understand why women often wear nighties rather than pyjamas if they are going to wear nightwear - unless for titillation.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 01:47 PM

I keep what I call my 'Scottish Nightie' in a drawer for when I visit my hardy sister up in the wilds of Scotland. It's a thick winceyette, flannelette type of thing, size XXL, (far too big for me, but every centimetre counts up there!) and comes right down over my feet. It's warm and cosy, and it helps me to survive. My sister's house is like a well-appointed fridge, I don't know how she stands it. She always did have hairy legs, now I know why!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 02:56 PM

Well, people have different concerns, body types, comfort levels, heating budgets, climate variables, sleeping arrangements...and above all, habits. I 'usually' wear clothes, even when I don't have to because things stick, splash, burn and otherwise irritate my delicate sensitive skin.. *grin*

I think Nancy King's remark was quite relevant..
" ..because my arms and shoulders get cold when I read in bed."

In bed? In the hottest Summer months, I will wear nothing at times...in the coldest Winter, I have several old, soft, long-sleeved turtle-neck pullovers which must save their original cost in heating bills each Winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 03:26 PM

Nightgowns / shirts allow more air circulation to what my Edwardian-bred mother coyly called "the underneaths" than do PJs.

Jersey and winceyette are cosy, silk is nice to be in, T-shirt material is practical, skin is good in summer.

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 03:28 PM

I used ta like skin all year round.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 03:32 PM

LEENEIA HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.

ohboy, ohboy, ohboy!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 03:54 PM

Sometimes Irene wears pajamas,
Sometimes Irene wears a gown,
And sometimes Irene wears nothing at all,
And then she's the talk of the town.

Our house is largely unheated at night because the heat from the woodstove doesn't reach the bedroom. I don't have much hair on top, so I wear a stocking cap.

Mama in her kerchief, and I in my cap
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap...

-Joe, waxing poetic-

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 04:34 PM

Does waxed poetic provide more insulation than unwaxed, Joe?

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 05:39 PM

Sometimes she wears pink pyjamas
Sometimes she wears a red gown
When they're both in the laundry
You'll never see me down town.

Irene good night Irene
Irene good night

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 09:17 PM

Kendall-

"I just wouldn't go to it."

ROFLMFAO

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 01:24 AM

Subject: RE: Songs to the John Brown/Battle Hymn tune
From: cetmst - PM
Date: 13 May 11 - 06:51 AM

We wear our silk pajamas in the summer when it's hot;
We wear our woollen flannels in the winter when it's not;
And sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall,
We crawl beneath the sheets with nothing on at all.

Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
With nothing on at all.

Reminder of above from a last-years thread which I OP'd. I also noted a few posts on that we used to sing the first part of this to The Church's One Foundation (with 'she' for 'we' & 'a woollen nightie for 'our flannels'). followed by chorus to Battle Hymn tune, "She's a most immoral lady When she slips between the bedclothes with nothing on at all".

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 06:03 AM

If US films and tv programmes are to believed, all Americans wear socks in bed (even in California), women wear bra & pants under whatever else they wear (often flannel men's pyjamas)and they make love withour removing pants/boxers! Does anyone in real life, after a night of hot passion, sit up in bed but wrap the sheet tightly under the arms so he doesn't see her breasts- or get up and wrap the sheet/duvet round them for the same reason? Or contort to get into a robe without revealing any skin?

RtS
pjs in winter in UK, short ones or nowt in the summer, especially in Greece.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's nightgowns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 07:00 AM

They go to bed in their full makeup too Roger, and wake up with mascara ubsmudged, and lipstick fresh as paint.
Same goes for the women too!