Towards the end of the 19th century Gustave Jaeger, a German doctor, got busy telling women that besides wearing knitted woollen slips and petticoats they would benefit greatly from wearing knitted nightclothes and something called the "combination" (an all-in-one underwear ensemble).
Michael" brand, but they will henceforth be carrying a range of nightclothes, underwear and toiletries bearing the V&A's logo, inspired by items from the museum.With deals like this, the V&A is marketing to retailers and manufacturers its huge collection of artefacts from around the world as a source of design inspiration.
I changed into my nightclothes, and hurried to the toilet at the end of the railcar; squat-style, it did not promise to stay clean for long.
By the third day, racing in at seven for our morning constitutional, wet coats akimbo over our nightclothes, we felt — how to put this exactly?
From her perspective, Marthe and Alice are the oppressors, the people who stop her from running outside in her comfortable nightclothes.
Even when they were at home, they would never have been idling around in their nightclothes at eleven in the morning; they would have been at work for hours already, in the kitchen or turning out the lodgers' rooms, with their sleeves rolled up and coarse aprons tied over their clothes.
Many of the soldiers, some still in their nightclothes, were picked off by machine-gun fire as they ran.
At this hour, if one listens long and hard, one can hear a fire engine in the distance, but not the cries for help, just the silence growing deeper at the sight of a small child leaping out of a window with its nightclothes on fire.
Still in my nightclothes, I carried the bag to the dumpster, not looking inside to verify whether Fumiko had taken any of the items.
The video for the single "High by the Beach" features Del Rey pacing anxiously about a Malibu mansion in her nightclothes (she eventually fetches a rocket launcher from the sand and explodes a paparazzi helicopter that's been hovering nearby).
In photographs that accompanied one of the letters, Mohammed appeared shrunken from the man in the famous image taken the day of his capture: a thickset, wild-haired figure, half-dressed in his nightclothes.
