VintageGent’s Menswear Daily

Feetie Pajamas for REALLY Big Kids (up to 6 foot 7)

I recently went on a trip which required flight travel.  Of course, I was reading a hardboiled mystery from 1940 that I snagged from a used bookstore, but I always flip through the in flight magazines, particularly the SkyMall catalog.  It is like a more sophisticated version o a Lillian vernon catalog in that there are novelty items mixed in with the more standard fare.  One product caught my eye, and at first I thought it was a joke!

I rubbed my eyes, but it didn’t go away.  Footed Pajamas for adults are a reality.   It was a joke on “The Family Guy” where Peter thought life would be perfect once he had a pair.   Now, they are in fashion magazines and on airplanes.   According to the catalog, they have sizes large enough to fit a strappy lad of 6′ 7″ tall and 250+ pounds.   I just think it would really be a little unsettling to see an NBA player retiring for the evening in a pair of jammies with clouds and duckies on them (they have that motif in tall sizes like that!).

Perhaps I am missing the point on this.  It would be a good thing to have for children of NBA players who grow in height so that they can’t fit into kids pajamas even though they are only eight years old.  Of course, if you were in a theater production, you could have an adult actor playing a child or something like that and it would be the perfect costume.  Is there something darker and deeper to all of this?  Could it be a high form of cocooning or some type of fetish?  Or is it strictly nostalgia for grown up Gen-X’ers who remember their G.I. Joe Pjs and think they still rock.

Jumpin Jammerz offered that they were good for sleeping “or dancing in.”   Well, it is sure going to be a darn interesting variation on the “Lords a Leaping” this season for Christmas Carolling, wouldn’t you say?

Any way you slice it, I don’t think anyone here will be buying them, but maybe you will.   Well…we could have a pajama party…