Talk:Nightshirt

About "It tends to be tighter than the casual shirt - reducing the tendency to twist while rolling around in ones sleep." and "The nightshirt has seen an increased popularity in certain nightclubs and raves due to its tendency for being skin tight." -- both statements sound all wrong. Or at least they are not descriptive of the actual nightshirts I am familiar with. (As opposed, perhaps, to some fashion items that may be based loosely -- ha! -- on actual nightshirts.) For just one example, look that the models wearing products sold by Hextol (http://www.hextol.co.uk/). Look at most of the stuff that shows up in google (http://images.google.com/images?q=nightshirt). Those are actual nightshirts: shirts for wearing at night to bed, not for clubbing. And think of all the nightshirts you've seen in old films. They're long and loose, not "tighter than the casual shirt" at all. And were these long baggy things really "worn all day under outer clothing" rather than taken off in the morning? And does that agree with the next paragraph, in which it is claimed that "The major difference in the use of the nightshirt versus alternatives, such as pajamas, is that it replaces all clothing worn during the day." What? Eeksypeeksy 11:26, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. I've corrected the text to better fit with what I know about nightshirts. But as far I understand it, the nightshirt as a sleeping garment does derive from the practice (before daily bathing became commonplace) of sleeping in one's underwear... which in those days consisted of a long and baggy shirt. - JasonAQuest (talk) 01:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Sources

The sourcing of this article is bad. The only given source is very old and can therefore hardly be used as an indication what a nightshirt today looks like and why it is different from a nightgown. --PaterMcFly talk ^contribs 17:21, 30 September 2011 (UTC)