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A Muslim girl in India wearing pajamas and kurti (lithograph from Emily Eden's Portraits of the Princes and People of India, 1844) Two-piece men's pajamas. Pajamas (or pyjamas in Commonwealth English, (/ p ə ˈ dʒ ɑː m ə z, p ɪ-,-ˈ dʒ æ-/ pə-JAH-məz, pih-, - JAM-əz)) are several related types of clothing worn as nightwear or while lounging.
The commission's regulations define the term children's sleepwear to include any product of wearing apparel (in sizes 0–14), such as nightgowns, pajamas, or similar or related items, such as robes, intended to be worn primarily for sleeping or activities related to sleeping, except: (1) diapers and underwear; (2) infant garments, sized for a ...
The back of the Rosenfeld building, showing a painted-brick ad for the Faultless Pajama Company.The first letters of "E. Rosenfeld and Company" are visible beneath. The building in which the company was located is part of the Loft Historic District North, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as the Rosenfeld Building.
In the Tyburn and Newgate days of British judicial hanging history, the hood used to cover the prisoner's face was a nightcap supplied by the prisoner, if he could afford it. [ 3 ] Nightcaps were worn by many women in the Victorian era , but were seen as old-fashioned by the Edwardian era . [ 4 ]
Peter Alexander was born in 1965 in South Africa and then moved to Melbourne, Australia shortly afterwards. [1] [2] He has two older sisters.Alexander attended boarding school at Geelong Grammar School for two years before returning home to Kew where he changed schools four times.
The Dictionary of Fashion History highlights the use of the term "nightgown" as early as 1530, when French linguist John Palsgrave [3] [failed verification] translates "sloppe" to nightgown in his own textbook. There is no indication whether the term referred to sleepwear or an item of clothing with a different purpose, however.
The terms (blanket) sleeper and footed pajamas may be used interchangeably. (This reflects the North American practice of referring to nearly any sleeping garment as pajamas, as blanket sleepers bear little resemblance to the jacket and trouser combination, originating in India, that the term pajamas originally referred to).
Jeans are sometimes preferred over pajamas or leggings as they are more durable for rough use. Most colours of kurtas match with blue jeans. [ 53 ] In 2014, an Indian family court in Mumbai ruled that a husband objecting to his wife wearing a kurta and jeans and forcing her to wear a sari amounts to cruelty inflicted by the husband and can be a ...