Picture of the Day for 2/3/2012. I came across this book, Bed Manners and Better Bed Manners: How to Bring Sunshine Into Your Nights (published 1948), in one of my parents' bookshelves and couldn't wait to see what pearls of wisdom were inside. Here's what the book had to say about night attire:
The first great rule is: Wear correct clothes in bed, or none at all. Our ancestors either went to bed with all their clothes on, or else they went to bed raw. Good breeding now decrees the use of nice-looking nightgowns and pajamas. Women are allowed to choose between these articles. Men have no choice. It is pajamas for them or nothing.
The comfortable old-fashioned flannel nightgown, worn with bed socks, is taboo.
So is the practice, common among seamen and lumberjacks, of going to bed in one's underclothes. A man who does this in the nuptial chamber is crude...The eye of a sensitive, delicately reared girl is shocked by such an inartistic sleeping costume.
This is all good to know.
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