will bedjackets make a return?

I wear my bedjacket most of the year. I knitted it in a fluffy yarn with matching bedsocks but sadly the bedsocks disappeared in Italy - caught up in the change of sheets at the hotel. I've just knitted bedsocks for the DDs but they haven't requested bedjackets - yet.

I doubt bedjacktes will return. I see no need.

I wear day clothing, change for bed, talk, sleep.

I ve got an oodie lovely and thick and warm

Wool is very expensive and especially if you ate counting the pennies!

Celieanne86

My dear mother born in the Victorian era always wore a shawl when sitting in her comfy arm chair watching TV or just dozing.
She asked me could I crochet her a new one as hers was getting a bit tatty, oh dear, where to start, what type exactly. I couldn’t find a pattern but worked out roughly the size to go round her shoulders and down her back.
I thought a threepenny bit style would be best and I let her choose her own colours of double knitting wool.
It took me about 3 weeks to make, and I really enjoyed doing it. I measured it a couple of times actually on her shoulders and finally we decided it was done.
She was thrilled and so was I, and she wore that shawl until she died age 90. I took it home with me afterwards and put it on the back of my favourite chair where it remains to this day nearly 50 years later and still in perfect condition.
My family call it my cuddle blanket and many a grandchild has been wrapped in it for a sleep.
I know it’s not a proper bed jacket but it’s far better, more adaptable and comfortable and yes I had a bed jacket when my first baby was born 65 years ago, all the young mums had one it seemed to be the uniform of the day, pink and frilly, but I’ll stick with my mums shawl far better.

And such happy memories still enclosed in every stitch………thank you for sharing 💐

They've been about a while now lol

I have a knitted shrug that I was given when I had my first son 44 years ago. I still have it and use it if I am in bed for any reason. When my daughter in law was pregnant with her first child I made her a box of items for the baby that she probably didn't know she needed and included a fleece bed jacket. She laughed about it at the time but said after the baby was born that it was such a useful item when sitting feeding in the night. I bought it from a well known auction site and there were lots to choose from. I do like the traditional knitted ones with a ribbon tie, very reminiscent of my grandmother at the end of her life.

Snap! I use a hoodie as it does the trick 😅

Bedjackets never went away! I have 3 x very warm and very pretty ones. I wear them in rotation from mid-September onwards until the spring, when I'm sitting up in bed watching T.V.! Dressing gowns are too bulky and lumpy to wear in bed!

Perhaps the knitted variety of bed-jacket went out of fashion. They would be a pain to launder - and would also get easily stretched out of shape from being worn in bed.

One of my bedjackets is made of a beautiful, printed, quilted fabric. It also has padded buttons and a soft collar, edged with satin ribbon. My other two are made of soft fleece, in pretty colours, with embroidery on them, and also with soft collars and soft buttons. A bed jacket is designed to have nothing hard or harsh about the design that would dig into us and irritate us, if we were feeling unwell, or if we fell asleep wearing it!

All three wash beautifully and dry quickly without using a tumbe dryer.

I've tried a knitted jersey-style hoodie in bed. But the hood feels lumpy and uncomfortable behind my neck and upper back against my bed pillows. Also the corded hood strings with plastic bells on them, and a stiff zip up the front, was not at all comfortable to wear in the bed if I fell asleep while wearing it.

If you Google "bed jackets" for sale - there are a lot of images that come up.....

I’ve never had one and I know my Mum, or paternal grandmother didn’t either (my other grandma died).
We don’t have a TV in our bedroom.
I don’t think I’d use one, or any other ‘cover’.

If I ever get cold in bed which is very rare, Tshirt or socks as extra.
My Winter quilt is 5 togs that's enough for me, I get too hot.

I have several old cardigans I can wear.

Visgir1

If I ever get cold in bed which is very rare, Tshirt or socks as extra.
My Winter quilt is 5 togs that's enough for me, I get too hot.

Gosh! 5 togs. My winter quilt is 9.

I wear a pale blue zippy fleece jacket the doesn't have a hood. It is too washed out to be worn in public but it does the job.

AuntieE

Is it not just as easy to wear any old jumper while reading in bed?

Why should anything as hideous as a bed-jacket come back into fashion?

And why buy one if you are living, as most of us are, on a fixed income and battling rising prices?

Any old long sleeved garment will do the trick.

My Mum would never wear an old jumper in bed! The very idea! She lived to nearly 97 and was always dressed beautifully and with her hair styled and her nails painted in a subtle shade.

I wear mine when sitting up in bed to read or have a cup of tea. It’s a very pretty soft quilted cotton. I used to have a beautiful one of cream quilted satin. They don’t have to be hideous.

I use an old jumper when reading in bed when I’m at home.

When travelling I carry a woolen knitted shawl that I can use on the train, reading in bed or as an extra small blanket if need be. One of the most useful things I ever made.

My mum had a pink quilted bed jacket I’m not sure whether she used it in bed but certainly wore it in the evenings together with a rug over her knees. I haven’t seen it for ages so I guess she doesn’t have it anymore. She does have the bed socks to go with it though.

Sparklefizz

Visgir1

If I ever get cold in bed which is very rare, Tshirt or socks as extra.
My Winter quilt is 5 togs that's enough for me, I get too hot.

Gosh! 5 togs. My winter quilt is 9.

Mine is only 2! (Hot stuff, me! 😂)
I get very hot, so if I have a 2 tog, it’s easy for me to put a light blanket on top in the winter. I don’t have heating in my bedroom, but the only bit of me that gets chilly is my nose!
Last night, for example, it was quite warm and I only had a sheet covering me until I woke up a little chilly at 3am, when I popped a throw over me. (I only ever have a sheet in the Summer, at least to start with).
I would love it to be cold like when I was young. Then, I had an eiderdown, a hot water bottle, bed-socks and, if I was lucky, a cat who used to come into my bedroom and snuggle into my back. Those were the days!

Bonmarche do bed jackets which just look like a zip up fleece to me. Might just as well one I already have.

SillyNanny321

Use an old cardigan too scruffy for daily use but still warm on a chilly night!

That’s what I do too, a real cosy old number.

I made three for my mother from cut down dressing gowns .
She liked them , but never wore them .
I make do with old cardigans .
I make do with old cardigans and aprons during the day - it's not exactly attractive.

I don’t sit up in bed - I neither read in bed, nor eat or drink - but I have sometimes worn a cardigan or loose jumper over my sleepwear. My mother had soft knitted bed jackets with ribbon instead of buttons, though I don’t remember her reading in bed either!

I don't much like old fashioned woolly bed jackets, but I've got a couple of bright fleecy ones.

Witzend

I remember them - knitted in a lacy pink stitch, with ribbons! No thanks!

Some years ago M&S had shortie ‘jacket’ type versions of their warm fleecy dressing gowns.
I bought a bright red one for a dd - she had it for ages - it was eventually the favourite sleeping place for her cat!

But IMO that sort of thing would fit the bill nicely.

I have one from M&S like you describe, it’s navy blue zip up with pockets.
As someone who sleeps sitting up I wear long sleeved t shirts in various weights to keep my shoulders and arms warm in the cooler months, the fleece comes out when it’s properly cold.

I'm in the process of knitting a bed cape like my Granny used to wear. At the moment I use an old cardigan which has seen better days.