The History of Pajamas and the Myth of Coco Chanel

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  @NicoleRudolph · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @sarakashefipour4787 · 4 years ago (edited)

  So I don&apos;t know how many other people have commented this 😅 I am from Iran and we speak Farsi. In Farsi &quot;paa&quot; means leg and &quot;jameh&quot; means clothes, so paa-jame means something like pants, leg clothing, and as much as I know these words have been used in Farsi for as far back 6th or 7th century (probably wayyy before that) and we have been wearing pants for a long long time (I think we have stone carvings on walls of Persepolis of people wearing pants, around 515 BC) and the cultures of Iran and India and Pakistan and these countries have always been very close, and so have been our languages. so yeah :) a bit of older history

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  @pagodrink · 4 years ago

  Something I can always look forward to whenever you&apos;re talking about a certain type of clothing is that there&apos;s always some random person in history freaking out about it in the newspaper. Somethings never change 😅

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  @JustSaralius · 4 years ago

  Sooo... this one lady wrote that she saw a man in a hotel wearing pyjamas and that she rushed away because he looked too effeminate to her, wearing loose and delicate silks. Then a man writes that women have started to buy pyjamas for themselves and that he could not think of anything more masculine and unattractive for a lady.<br>People really haven&apos;t changed much at all... XD

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  @whatsinanamelol2237 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWaFkeKw6Lc&amp;t=414">6:54</a> <br>As a North Indian, I disagree. Pyjama=Pai(foot)+jama(clothing or coat), essentially foot covering, NOT a foot covering AND skirted robe. It is a SINGLE garment only. The terminology is like petticoat- coat being treated as generic term for clothing not necessarily implying that the petticoat has to go with a coat.<br>There is no record to suggest that the pyjama was to specifically be paired with a jama; choga, angarkha could also go with it. Vice versa jama could be worn with churidars(tight, long trousers with excess fabric scrunched at ankles)by men as well as women. Also, the diaphanous skirted robes we see worn by women in the paintings are NOT a jama but peshwaz; basic difference is it fastened centre front since side tie closure don&apos;t work well over curvy bosoms. Some women like Noor Jehan could wear a jama, but it would be considered an expression of power and non-conformity(and invite court gossip).

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  @SolveigMineo · 4 years ago

  Coco Chanel is often credited for things she did not invented. She was more a genius of marketing than a genius of fashion. Madeleine Vionnet invented way more things at that time.

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  @margotmolander5083 · 4 years ago

  I have to agree with the idea that pajamas are safer than nightgowns, because I once woke up from a nightmare of being throttled only to find that my ankle-length flannel nightgown had gotten caught on my new knit sheets such that the whole thing was wrapped around my throat and was actually choking me. <br>PJs are much safer and more dignified if you have to evacuate a hotel at 2am for a fire alarm.

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  @gregc5851 · 4 years ago

  Catherine de medici 🤝 Coco Chanel 🤝 Beau Brummell

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  @Chibihugs · 4 years ago

  The pajamas of yesteryear are way more stylish than what most people wear as outerwear these days. Thanks for looking into the actual history of where pajamas originated.

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  @lwoods507 · 4 years ago

  A True And Terrible Confession: When clearing out my great-aunts&apos; house in the early 1990s&apos; we found a set of silk pyjamas very like those royal blue silk ones you show at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWaFkeKw6Lc&amp;t=995">16:35</a> in this video, still pristine in their box. &nbsp;My mum gave them to us kids to play dress-up in, alongside many other beautiful 1920/30s garments, and once they had got worn-out, I cut them up to make dresses for my dollies...

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  @ixchelkali · 4 years ago

  My mom was a teenager in the 1920s. Her family lived in house on the beach in Manhattan Beach, California in the summer, and I have photos of her and her friends wearing beach pajamas. She started college in about 1931 and her college friends wore somewhat dressier lounging pajamas to their informal parties. They were a somewhat &quot;arty&quot; crowd, so it might have been a bit avant-garde.

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  @leemasters3592 · 4 years ago

  The poor man in the 19717 May Harper&apos;s Bazzar ad for faultless Pyjamas looks like he&apos;s had a terrifying nightmare and is never going back to sleep

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