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Coton Doux Pajamas, As Promised

It's hard to find good men's pajamas. So often they're an afterthought by women's sleepwear makers, printed with golf clubs or spaniel heads on heavy, disappointing cotton. These French pajamas ($88) are beautiful. Girl sleepers can steal them, too. If you paddle to Nancy Koltes at Home in the middle of a monsoon, as on this past Wednesday, you might be rung up (but not wrung out) by someone wearing them who has hung his trousers in the stockroom to dry.

They're available on the Coton Doux web site, too (click for the English version), but you won't see these gorgeous patterns.

Bedhead Pajamas

I am reluctant to do this, because I don't like to think about bedrooms with people in them — lots of people, lots of bedrooms, lots of people populating lots of bedrooms, all wearing the same pajamas I wear. It's not the she-showed-up-in-this-too phenomenon, it's that being here, in the bare midriff of America, you really feel the daggers of demography pinning you to the wall.

You are a woman. You are a person who enjoys looking attractive. You cast aside budget constraints sometimes to try and make this happen. You like this mustard and eat that pierogi. Right now there are pitiful few skyscrapers and graffiti-covered subway cars and quirky coffee-cart operators to get between me and the focus-group facts of myself, so far from New York.

Never mind. I like the Midwest, and I believe Bedhead pajamas have already been somehow linked with Neve Campbell. Also, it's high time the authority à la dormir gave up her pajama game.

If you buy them, you will not regret it. If you get them for your co-sleeper, he or she (their are men's too) will love you for all time. Okay, I really do want you to write and tell me which ones you're wearing.

Transparently yours, but for zebra sateen,
Sleeper