What do you sleep in?

MNine's quite difficult to turn over on. Think it's the softness. I have to sit up, and then turn.

Or, it could be a getting old thing. [sigh] (me not the mattress)

It's just that she had multiple mattresses - and was so delicate she could feel the pea through all of them ... isn't that the story ?

It used to be nothing, but over the last few years I've graduated to a cotton nightie. It has to be white, cotton and sleeveless but with wide straps. Can't be doing with skinny ones that dig into you. Oh and preferably a square neckline.
However tomorrow we are going to an 'Allo 'Allo night [under duress]. As you have to dress up, I decided to go as the Grandmother and have purchased a long sleeved cream and lilac brushed cotton nightie with a high neck. I hate to say it but it feels lovely on and when I go down to stay with my friend for a week on Sunday, I think the new nightie will be coming with me + the pink fluffy bed socks, but I'll leave the shawl and mob cap behind. Not quite ready for those yet.

Just lately my feet have been getting really cold at night so I have taken to wearing bed socks. The other night, just before getting into bed I caught sight of myself in the full length mirror and what I saw was not a pretty sight - the bed socks, the calf length fleecy cotton nighty and clutching a hot water bottle - in fact everything I used to mock in my youth! OMG - I felt quite shocked!!!! Whatever happened to the strappy, silky nighties covered in frothy with lace of yesteryear. I shall go to bed in the dark in future in case I see this dreadful vision again - it was enough to frighten the horses!!

The next thing to be sorted in this new house is the run of floor length mirrored wardrobes directly opposite my side of the bed. I avert my eyes as much as possible. Not wearing nightwear possibly makes the vision more horrific...

I feel sure that we have explored this before. Anyway, pyjamas in the winter and nighties in the summer – natural fabrics, so cotton or silk. I still have some pyjamas from the days when you had to buy them as a set instead of being able to buy tops and bottoms in different sizes. Because of my distorted body, when I am wearing these and turn over during the night, the baggy bottoms stay put where they were. Most uncomfortable.

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Recommend full length mirror only on inside of wardrobe door.

We have, absent. Just last winter!

Strange that the subject doesn't seem to crop up in the Summer.

It used to be a big-longish t-shirt until DH died and now it's pjs.

Pjs always, I am a sleepwalker.

I own one pair of silk pyjamas and some pretty nighties but only wear them in hospital. One time I was in a single room so didn't wear anything and got told off by a nurse because a male nurse had checked on me during the night and was distressed!

When I stay with friends or family I take a housecoat to put on if necessary - to save them embarrassment, it doesn't bother me.

The male nurse was distressed! How wonderful for your morale, Movedalot!

Jim jam bottoms, two t shirts and an old fleece; Newcastle united thermal hat and socks. I can never get warm these days. Oh, and used the dog to warm my feet last night .

congrats to movedalot.

Why do you assume it was that sort of distressed Ana

Oooh! Say no more, Moved!

My lovely brushed cotton tartan pyjamas. What is it about tartan that always makes you feel warm?

Is brushed cotton the new flannelette and what happened to wincyette? My last pair of wincyette pyjamas had Noddy on them!

Hate pyjamas with a vengeance - I have to be free

Thin knotted cotton nightie without sleeves and short in Summer - thicker knit, long + long sleeves in winter - usually M/S stripes.

I remember when I was 21 being in ITU and sitting, stark naked and plugged into numerous machines, on a bed pan (do they have those any more?) discussing metaphysical poetry with the male nurse in charge that night – and, strangely, neither of us being remotely embarrassed. It was quite an intense and lively discussion.

Cotton nightdresses or tops, sometimes with pyjama trousers, long striped bedsocks. Sometimes a scarf. I recommend the latter for chilly necks.

At least no-one has mentioned wearing a hat yet (like the Victorians did).

Tegan mentioned wearing a hat, petallus.

Always a cotton nightie for me, knee length and short sleeved. Fluffy bed socks which seem to prevent cramp. Never fancied wearing a scarf in bed - thought it might strangle me in my sleep.

Another naked sleeper here. Sleeping in anything feels weird and uncomfortable to me.

And I sleep in a cold room, always with an open window!

My MIL often used to sleep with a beanie on. I didn't realise this had been discussed before, but between new members + lac of recall (mine), am enjoying this thread anyway. Can't believe how many people sleep starkers, I used to, living in the Southern Hemisphere.

Re discussed before, not the MIL and the beanie, the 'what do you sleep in'. And that should be lack not lac.