VintageGent’s Menswear Daily

1979: Slippery Sleepwear

RollerKaty brought up a (not so) fond memory of laying on the living room floor, Sear’s Christmas Wishbook spread out on the floor.   I always used to skip the “boring” section (the clothes), and started out somewhere before the toys where the “novelty gifts for adults” were (Namely, gumball machines and chess sets with scifi characters) and I studied every page from there on out.  I always was glad that Sears left the back supporters and the support hose out of it, but was sometimes a little weirded out by adults in sleepwear.

RollerKaty offers forth this selection from 1979.   I like the “family portrait” at  far left.  The pose is so natural and believeable.   The gentleman in the main photo looks like he is ready for a strange boxing match.  Isn’t there something just a little wrong about that?

I vaguely remember liking to look at the bedding section of the catalogs, but wondered to myself if someone bought satin sheets and satin robes and satin boxers, they would either sweat to death or slip right out of bed and end up somewhere between the threshold of the bedroom and the guest bathroom way on the other side of the house.

For purists, there is silk satin, rayon satin, and artificial satin.  These are actually Arnel triacetate, but I would argue they fall neck and neck with rayon satin and just above silk satin in the slip and slide department.

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