will bedjackets make a return?

They've been about a while now lol

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 💐

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

I ve got an oodie lovely and thick and warm

I doubt bedjacktes will return. I see no need.

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

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.

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 knitted two for herself in modern colours and lovely, soft yarn. The pattern was unusual in that you cast on at one cuff in rib then carried on knitting and increasing all across the back to the other cuff. She used to read a lot in bed and sometimes knit or crochet.

I bought my dear old mum a fleece type thing that wrapped round but had pockets. She wore it at home watching tv, in bed at home, in hospital, she loved it so much that when she passed away it went in with her.

I have a cosy fleecy jacket given by DD one Christmas, very cosy, very handy.

I bought a 50s vintage pattern and have knit myself, daughter and granddaughter one.

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.

Slenderella make them still. Also lots of fleece ones available online.

I’d buy one in a trice. I’m with Foxie48, need something for reading in bed, both at night and with my morning coffee, news & email perusal. As it is I use old tops, preferably soft, which are too shapeless to wear elsewhere.

I had forgotten until now, but I had a little bed shrug thing! It was cream and lacey with no sleeves, and two knitted ties on it. I wore it when I was fairly young when reading in bed. No idea where I got it from. I wouldn’t dream of wearing it now! I’d look like Lady Grantham in Downton Abbey 😂

My Oodie does me I wouldn’t buy a bed jacket.

Old cardigans are an excellent idea.

I don't think they will but, if they do, then I have a couple of patterns I inherited from my MIL.

Vintage is in, of course.

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

I have a zip up fleece one from M&S, wouldn’t be without it.

This is the type of ‘bed shawl ‘ I use now, very cosy and much better than those twee woolly bed jackets we used to have

I own 2 that I have had for years, I bought them from M & S. One is quite lightweight and the other is heavier. The heavier one even has pockets. They just look like the top of a fleece dressing gown. They wash like a dream and I wouldn't be without them. My health isn't good so I often have to go to bed early and feel cold. I get snug and sit up and read a book or read different things on my tablet. My husband doesn't particularly feel the cold so we save on heating costs as the thermostat doesn't have to be turned up just for me. It lies on the bed beside me so easy to slip on if I have to go to the toilet in the night.

I remember having a blue bed jacket at boarding school and boy did we need them! Nowadays I tend to get comfy with pillows behind me and then I simply pull my dressing on the wrong way around…so the inside of the back covers my neck and chest, my arms and shoulders are all snuggly in the sleeves … it’s perfect for reading or even watching tv if you want to. Plus if you have to get out for the inevitable bathroom visit before you sleep, your dressing gown is already warm and cosy. Try it!

Over 50 years ago I knitted myself a shawl in rose pink wool in blackberry stitch. All the fashion then. When it went out of fashion, it became my bedtime wrap. Sitting in bed reading, I wrap my shawl round my shoulders. Whn i snuggle down to sleep, it is easy to shrug off nd drop on the floor, pt be put back under my pillow the following day.

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.