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French banyan style dressing gown, or nightgown, 1730. Prior to the late 19th century, the term "nightgown" referred not to sleepwear but rather to informal wear. The nightgown was a "version of a modern dressing gown" and tended to be worn around the house or to occasions when formal attire was not necessary.
Nightwear – also called sleepwear, or nightclothes – is clothing designed to be worn while sleeping. The style of nightwear worn may vary with the seasons, with warmer styles being worn in colder conditions and vice versa. Some styles or materials are selected to be visually appealing or erotic in addition to their functional purposes.
Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol wearing his nightshirt and nightcap. Illustration by John Leech.. Nightcaps are less commonly worn in modern times, but are often featured in animation and other media, as part of a character's nightwear.
The gown was donated by relatives of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, played on HBO’s “The Gilded Age” by Donna Murphy. THE SOUNDS OF ‘SCROOP’ (AND RAZOR CLAMS) A trio of gowns from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries explores the look of “blurred blossoms” — the effect that makes a dress look like a watercolor or an Impressionist work.
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 ษ ห dส ษห m ษ z, p ษช-,-ห dส æ-/ pษ-JAH-mษz, pih-, -โ JAM-ษz)) are several related types of clothing worn as nightwear or while lounging.
A trio of gowns from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries explores the look of “blurred blossoms” — the effect that makes a dress look like a watercolor or an Impressionist work.
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