A quest for pajama bottoms

Much like my quest for a tote (I should just order one from Land’s End….but there’s so many sizes and styles to choose from!) I’ve been searching for the perfect pajama bottoms for a couple of years. I still haven’t found what I’m looking for (are you singing U2 right now?)

Growing up, my great-aunt Saretta was a buyer for the lingerie department at Bloomingdale’s and we received flowery pajamas and Lanz flannel nighties for every birthday and christmas gift. You know, the nighties that bunch up and twist when you wake up in the morning? And they have that ruffle around the neck? Usually matching ones for my sister and I. I always just wore what my aunt got me, or what my mom picked out, without really thinking, “what do I want to wear to bed?” I’m now taking back the night.

I don’t want my pajamas to match…I usually wear a tank on top. I don’t want frills, lace, satin, ruffles or hot pink. I don’t want flannel. I don’t want the bottoms to be too short. I prefer pockets. Basically, I’m looking for a cotton pair of bottoms. I broke down and bought a pair at Kohl’s last week that were the right material I was looking for, cotton, but are green and say “Mountain Dew” all over them, with the “Dew” in BRIGHT red…the kind of red that is against green and makes your eyes hurt to look at it, the kind that would look 3D if you looked at them with 3D glasses. Can I actually go to bed with one of the most caffinated beverages plastered on my legs??

Please God, send me a plain pair of pajamas…bottoms only please.

April 14, 2008. Uncategorized. 7 Comments.

7 Comments

  1. Darcy replied:

    What about a pair of scrubs? Those are usually pretty widely available?

    April 15th, 2008 at 6:28 am. Permalink.

  2. MJ replied:

    Have you being having “X-treme dreams” when you sleep in the Dew bottoms? Such as Mountain biking through the amazon with an anaconda nipping at your heels?

    April 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am. Permalink.

  3. LD replied:

    oh right scrubs….that would be perfect! I used to have a scrubs shirt but never bottoms. Maybe I need to date a doctor, or a nurse, or a x-ray technician, or a dental assistant, or a vet. Yeah, that’s it, a vet.

    Actually, I have bungee jumping dreams when I wear them.

    And sometimes I sing in my sleep “they call it that good old mountain dew!!”

    April 15th, 2008 at 11:01 am. Permalink.

  4. Anne replied:

    Hmmm….where can scrubs be purchased? Online? Do you think they make you prove you’re a medical professional?

    April 15th, 2008 at 5:40 pm. Permalink.

  5. LD replied:

    this guy I work with wears scrubs shirts to work all the time, with all different kinds of patterns on them, one even has the solar system. I should ask him where he got them cuz he ain’t no doctor.

    April 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm. Permalink.

  6. karen replied:

    Anne, I’m pretty sure you are required to sleep with someone in the medical profession in order to score a pair of scrubs.

    April 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am. Permalink.

  7. MJ replied:

    Karen, it’s true. That’s the benefit of sleeping with a nurse. I get first dibs on blood stained discarded scrubs no longer usable for work.

    April 16th, 2008 at 9:35 am. Permalink.

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