Onesie

Onesie's are great and the right ones are warm. Unless you are young and wearing a funny one you probably don't look great but does that matter if you are warm and in your own home? My niece bought me one which I wear if I have had a shower in the evening and can't be bothered to dress properly, it is warm and cosy.

I cannot believe that any onesie is that warm. How much does she use her heating normally

Leaving your heating off in winter is not necessarily a good idea, particularly in a wet winter. A DU, who genuinely didn't feel the cold, after his wife died stopped using the heating. When he was rushed to hospital, for reasons unrelated to the temperature of the house, and I took over the management of his affairs,I opened the wardrobes in several bedrooms, including his, and found everything in them festooned with mildew. I had to throw all the clothes in them away and wash the inside of the cupboard with bleach to try and get rid of all the spores. I turned the heating back on for a couple of hours a day. He never returned home and I had power of attorney, so he never knew I had the heating on in an empty house. He would have had a blue fit if he had known.

It would be quite possible of you bought the original onesie, costing about £140. But you would be breathing in cold damp air which might not be good for the bronchials.

I've worn a onsie most of this last winter and been very cosy I was talked into getting one by DIL who had bought one for her nanna I was pleasently surprised how warm they are and even bought a second one and had no second thoughts about wearing it around the house if I did not feel like getting dressed.

They are not much good for women because when you go to the loo in the night you have to take it down, off your upper half and it is cold, not everyone can afford to heat the house during the night. Its ok for men as they open in the front. If someone would invent a onesie with a zip around the middle so you can take off the trouser bit and leave shoulders covered, then I will buy one

You wear it all night, Silverfish? Don't you get hot?

I've never worn one so I don't really know what I'm talking about.

All this talk of wearing a onesie all winter, and in some cases all night, is sounding rather unhygienic to me!

Bit like the Eskimos sewing their children into the winter layers.

45 years before onesies DH, on a trip to the USA, bought me a garment, generally referred to in this house as my babygro. It was like a onesie, but in a lovely warm fleecy fabric. I used to wear it over my pyjamas on cold nights, we do not heat our bedroom at night either, I prefer a cool bedroom.

Now I have a nightdress like garment bought about 10 years ago in BHS, again made from a fleecy fabric and worn over a nightdress. It is still used on cold winter nights.

Didn't Winston Churchill wear one? I think it was called a siren suit?

Don't think it was fleecy - but there again, who knows?

What a coincidence. Today I have been sorting stuff out to take down to the caravan for the start of the season. One of the first things I packed was my onesie. It can get a bit nippy early in the season even with the panel heater on all night.

I know what you mean about the difficulty in going to the loo in the middle of the night, awkward and cold. But the bathroom in the caravan is almost always cold anyway. As for the hygiene aspect I wear knickers and a t shirt underneath.

So with my onesie, thermal socks, 15 tog duvet and two hot water bottles I am warm and cosy. I also have the mixed blessing of a large dog who joins me in the night. He's not supposed to but the bedroom door opens inwards and there is no stopping him. I think he gets lonely, or perhaps cold.

I would delay opening up the caravan until the weather is warmer, but my Grandchildren are coming down for Easter, and as I only have a small car I will have to do at least one run prior to that to get all the stuff down. Curtains, bedding etc.

So I will be spending most of the summer living in a tin shed in the middle of a field in Lincolnshire! Guess what I absolutely love it. I tell the kids Mum is having another gap year.

Anybody else got a static caravan?

We haven't used ours for years now. In fact this car hasn't even got a tow bar. I do miss it sometimes.

We had the loo outside in a toilet tent. It was the only time I ever saw early mornings. It was often lovely. Early morning mists, and stillness.

Ah, yours is static. Ours was touring. Static would be good.

We were staying in our caravan three weeks ago and I saw a lady (of a certain age) trotting happily across the camp site to the loos early on a very chilly morning in a white onesie with black polka dots clasping her wash bag. She was quite slim and didn't look silly at all. Well not very. I don't think I'll follow her example - I'd look more like a Spotted Dick pudding!

(Our caravan is a small tourer. Love it)

My friend and I had a discussion about onesies - she said her DIL loved hers, but we agreed that for us, no way. However, I then had a think about it and thought why not? I happened to find a very conservative one, bought it, tried it and now I love it. It reminds me of my ex-husbands boiler suit but cosier. Someone should definitely invent a better way of the going-to-the-toilet issue though.

I like my onesie they are a bedtime thing for me wouldn't wear one in the day and no Merlotgran I don't get too hot in bed - my house has no central heating so a onsie is great for me You can buy them with a flap for going to the loo but those ones are more expensive

I bought one (red tartan) for DD1 when she shared an old house in Birmingham with friends (early 90s) when she was at Aston Uni- she had the top room under the eaves and it was freezing! She loved it and we use to call it her 'contraception gear'. After she'd finished her Degree, we went to the Cotswolds with my parents. DD1 was sitting with the dog in his basket, and the lady who owned the cottage asked her 'have you done your 0'Levels yet?- we laughed as she did look about 15 instead of 23 with a onesie on

Yes, they look charming on kids or young-ish slim people, but really, on us?
Quite apart for the going to the loo thing, I am never cold enough to want to be in one and would look mega ridiculous anyway.Think I will stick with long nightie, furry dressing gown, tartan fluffy socks and furry slippers! of course, I don't look at all silly in those.

To be honest, I would worry that I couldn't get out of it! Stuck in a onsie until I had to be cut out of it.

I arrived at my sister's house for xmas three years ago and got a shock - the nieces and nephews had all received onesies as presents and they all looked dreadful, even the slim young ones. So it would be a night-time only thing if I ever got one.

Sorry, I think they are dreadful things! Whatever size or shape the person is they look mildly ridiculous, although most of us look a bit daft in our nightwear I suppose. Also, I cant abide man made fibres, they make me itch and overheat, and the thought of wearing one in bed makes me scratch just thinking about it! I wear cotton pyjamas from M and S, skin can breathe in them, and far more hygienic than man made fibres. I dont have heating on at night, but we spent a lot of money on insulating this house when we did a lot of building work and it never really gets cold. I like a cool bedroom and a warm bed, so find that a hot water bottle during the cooler months works great. I cant imagine how cold that lady in the Saga magazine must keep her house if she jut spent the winter in an onesie, what about her guests? No fire, no heating!