To think that there is NOTHING less sexy than...

[MrsSchadenfreude]

...a pale pink night shirt (eg long T shirt type thing) with a high percentage of polyester in the poly/cotton ratio, with a sad eyed puppy appliqued on the front, proclaiming "I'm Cute!"

Or a lemon yellow one, with a penguin appliqued on the front, wearing a jaunty bobble hat and scarf, proclaiming "Snow time!" with a few strategically placed snowflakes above his head.

(Just having a clear out...Christmas presents from my DM and DMIL...)

i hate that sort of nightwear but maybe its on budget for some, or just bad taste they cant see?

but hands off my fleece pjs. ive got lots sriously gets so cold here last winter the worst was -25, im sure youd want a fleece hat & gloves with the pjs if were here.

I've got a deeply unsexy pair of pjs in thick brushed cotton, but they are for camping purposes only and are usually teamed with woolly socks for the full effect.

I have one or two deeply unsexy nighties with 'cutesie' applique thingies on . Also a seventeen-year-old tartan nightshirt. And they're all my favourite things to wear in bed.

In my defence though I have sleep troubles and they are the exact length/bagginess/fabric to lessen irritation. Plus DH doesn't ever seem to have been deterred by their presence...

On the subject of saucy nightwear being bought by MILs, though- mine bought me one of those shorty satin nighties with fifteen gazillion criss-crossy straps on the back (the kind where you think you've got your arm through the right bit, but subsequently discover that the nightie is ten inches higher on one side than the other because you've inserted in the wrong place, as it were) for me to wear on my wedding night. I don't wish to relive the abject horror and embarrassment I felt when I opened that parcel, I can tell you.

As it happened I slept on the sofa in our suite due to a) being very drunk b) not being able to sleep in a four-poster bed which had curtains and cover heavily bedecked in elephant prints and c) DH being drunk and snorey in the afore-mentioned fpb, so the nightie never came out of the suitcase anyway.

YANBU, it's not sexy. It's not cute either, if worn by an adult.

But I wouldn't want to be given sexy nightwear by anyone other than DH.

"TOTU. Oh yes - I've got had that one too. Bright pink, right? Think that had matching slippers too..."

Yep, that's the one. I'm 41 and going to bed in penguin pjs!! WTF?

(in the summer, I sleep in the nude...honest!)