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Show Pajamas vs. Nighties 38- Mr 33 3T 'TIS A WARM FIGHT 3T 3ST 3ST 3flT 3e Color, Age Indicator, B) HARRY BAGJLEY, Even in the matter of men's noctur-!nal noctur-!nal wearing apparel, tne old order changoth and nlcht shirts versus pa-Jamas pa-Jamas are defeated by three to one, ttc-l cording to a report from local men s' stores. Following In the footsteps of the old fashioned warming pan. the night cap,' i material and spiritual!, and the Dodo bird, the flapping, shank exposing r.lght shirt, such as I'a used to wear when walking the floor with infant Willie In the wee sma' nours. is raplu-1. raplu-1. beoSjmlng a thin of the past Why are the night shirts beinK thrown over in favor of the blfurcatefi pajamas? We cannot explain, hut local lo-cal dealers are of the opinion that the Present-day I'ulimaji train is respon-l sible for the popularity of the latter' style of sleeping garment. Flow IH1 V CAME. It is said that the Inventor of pa-Jamas pa-Jamas once had occaston to maKe n Journey with his wife, shoitl) after Pullman trains were added as an essential es-sential to equipment of first class rail-! reads. The wife was very thirsty and! the man of the family had to make Several trips to the water-cooler as ithe wife's request for ;i drink roused ' her lesser half fiom a sound slumber, I h forgot he was on the train and without with-out slipping Into a bathrobe, or trous-icrs. trous-icrs. or other garments than his bll-I bll-I lowing night hlrt, he started on his trip to the water-cooler As luck would have it there ,is another unfortun-late unfortun-late In the aisle, similarly garbed and leach looked at thp other with a Iglanco akin to repugnance. In the mind of the Inventor flashed the thought. "What could be more ridiculous ridic-ulous than such an ill-shaped, clumsy, uncomfortable wad of cloth for a He-man He-man to wear during at least a quarter of his life time, and espcclall in a draughty train." So, with his coat ana trousers as a pattern, ne evolved pa-Jv pa-Jv mas. Since this time the idea has, spread extensively and at present embraces; practlcall 70 per cent of the population. popula-tion. Even the gentler sex has been converted to the nractlabilitv of Paja mas and hundreds of Ogden women, haberdashers assert, have purchased arments of this nature which were' i rtainly too small for their husbands to wear. Materials" Solsette Is one of thel most popular with silk also, in great I d mand A number of garments of I crepes and mercerized cotton are also in huge demand and the coloring ot the various suit9 of pajamas rival the I rainbow. Some of them would put a j self-respecting rainbow to shame. White seems to be the favorite color, col-or, or maybe the purchaser Is timid' about taking home the more brilliantly brilliant-ly colored pajamas. Some are constructed con-structed in combinations of colors that to an excitable dlsposltloln Would M B quarantine against the arrival of !Bor-pheus. !Bor-pheus. We know one man (("nose spouse refused to allow the Earments to be unwrapped after she had torn a comer of the wrapping-paper to determine de-termine the contents of the package Hr husband, following her view of the garments, had to equip the lady with smoked-glasses until she had re-covered re-covered from the effect of the shock on her optic nerves. While Interviewing shopmen regard -ing pajamas, the writer was shown a i brilliant g.i.ix of serpentine stripes, of orange against a checkered badK- j groOnd of green and while The effect ef-fect wka simply stunning and the clerk! el. timed that patterns' on this nature were highly favored by young men of j about 20 to 25. ears of ace. Pajamas of pals mauve various shades of tan, purple green orange, combinations of -tripe-, rlv-ek- i rl--crosses and weird futuristic patterns. I all are being worn with enthusiasm by the younger generations. The ,-,id lioys ' i k -" ,, in-,. .,i- ....... land defy convention, when In ih' course of a railroad jourey, thej are forced to traipse down the aisle of the I Pullman In quest of a gl i-s of water. (. IINTJXG r W OR. ; But pajamas are gaining favor, and (experts claim that the nlcht shirts which for scores of years were badges i of respectability, are doomed to ex-! ex-! tinctlon, I Dealers claim that riccp pink is , about the only color known that Is not I purchased readily by males as a suitable suit-able sleeping garment. The cause for this aversion to pink I Is a mooted question. Some claim that pink is not becoming to the majority of males, but amon- the weaker sex pajamas of this eolor are said So have an extremely large following. Pink i pajamas, whose color radiates warn, th and pood cheer, pink to that extreme degree of plrikness that eecms to leap from the garment against ones eye-slght. eye-slght. seems to be the favorite coloring among the female of the species. Girls and oung women arc the greater devotees to the pink pajamas, It Is claimed by authorities. Older women wo-men and spinsters prefer pale blue pa-Jamas, pa-Jamas, while plain white ones with pin stripes of various cotors seem to( be the choice of even older women. But the old-fashioned shirt, such as Grandfather and his grandfather before be-fore him wore, are passing to the great beyond, where angels and seraphlms are content to garb themselves contentedly con-tentedly In filmy nightshirts and strum celestial strains upon the golden harps. |
