HOW fashion got FUNNY
“DRAWSTRINGS ARE THE FUTURE. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST”
Remember that reccurring dream you had as a teenager, the one where you turn up to school wearing your pyjamas – the daggy pair with the teddy-bear print, no less – and Kelvin Coyle mercilessly calls you Big Bear for the rest of the year? Walking down the street wearing my Bed Threads linen PJ set felt like my teenage nightmare coming true. I braced for the bear taunts as I stepped off the light rail on my way to the office. When a woman walking towards me exclaimed, “You’ve got to be kidding,” I immediately went to explain that, yes, I knew I was wearing pyjamas and, no, I hadn’t escaped from a mental-health clinic. But before I could, I saw her ear-pods and realised she was on the phone – probably discussing The Bachelor finale – and hadn’t even noticed my uber-casual outfit.
Pyjama dressing isn’t new: Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel popularised it in the early 1920s, ’s Grace Coddington wore Michael Kors jammies to the Met Gala in 2015 and the street-style set
