There is controversy aplenty over whether a gentleman should always wear a handkerchief in the breast pocket of his overcoat (as if there was any other purpose to the pocket), but one never hears the practice discussed when applied to pajamas, where it really comes in handy. For unless a man has mastered the arcane art of tucking his hank into his pajama sleeve, there is usually no other place to stash it.
That said, Michael Drake poured fuel on my fire by pointing out that his pajamas, or pyjamas as he calls them, actually have a pair of patch pockets on the coat in addition to the breast, a handy innovation that had somehow escaped my notice all these years (is there such a thing as pocket envy?). But there is still only one purpose for that storage compartment on the chest.
Stuff a hank in it.
Photo: Drake's London
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Congratulations Will; it's taken a long while, but you've finally run out of clothes topics to blog about... ;)
I take it from this that you sleep in the nude?
See Maxminimus for this concept in action today.
Personally I never had any use for pajamas...
Are your pajama breast pockets too small to hold a cigar?
This (three patch) is the pocket configuration on my Derek Rose pajamas. Perhaps they've changed there ways since they moved production out of England, but I had no idea pajamas were made any other way.
I have a pair of Zegna pajamas with a pocket at chest and hips.
Pocket squares, or pochettes, go in the breast pocket. Hankies always go in the pants pocket. The pajamas breast pocket is better-suited to a pair of reading glasses.
JR, you're exactly right. Well put.
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