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Pajama bottoms with backside seams are unhygenic

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Fangtiger · 18/12/2020 11:10

Am I the only person who has a problem with the backside seam on pajama bottoms? The seam goes up my bum so I end up wearing night time knickers underneath to stop that happening and to stop having to wash my pjs every day. Do pj bottoms without a backside seam exist? Someone told me M&S had some, but can't find them.

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thegreenlight · 18/12/2020 19:27

I have night pants and day pants. Doesn’t everyone? I’m terrified of something crawling in there Blush

midnightstar66 · 18/12/2020 19:29

And fwiw if I slept naked I'd need to change the sheets every day too. I repeat anything that has direct access to bare bums/genitals needs washed daily. It's up to the individual to decide what item that might be and how much washing they are prepared to do.

waterlego · 18/12/2020 19:31

Why on earth would you change your pants to go to bed???

Presumably (I’m not a night time pant-wearer so I can’t be sure) because one has already been wearing them for 14-16 hours or so. I wouldn’t want to wear one pair for a full 24 hours. 😐

MitziK · 18/12/2020 19:39

[quote fitbciz1]@drspouse - yes, I’ve made plenty without side seams, but the crotch seam seems pretty essential if you want somewhere for your bum to go![/quote]
Cutting each leg as a single or two piece and seaming along the middle is done because it's more economical in terms of fabric, not because it provides somewhere for the bottom.

If a front piece and a back piece were cut and then side seamed, then it would work, but a wider bolt of fabric would be needed. They'd look more like historical sailors' trousers, but would probably be far more comfortable, compared to the tightlegged (I hate ankle cuffs!) style that's been fashionable for so long.

Meowchickameowmeow · 18/12/2020 19:43

@thegreenlight

I have night pants and day pants. Doesn’t everyone? I’m terrified of something crawling in there Blush
Something crawling in there? Like what for god's sake?
mistermagpie · 18/12/2020 19:50

I wash my PJs after every wear too. I can't imagine putting dirty ones back on, ugh!

SirSamuelVimes · 18/12/2020 19:54

@midnightstar66

And fwiw if I slept naked I'd need to change the sheets every day too. I repeat anything that has direct access to bare bums/genitals needs washed daily. It's up to the individual to decide what item that might be and how much washing they are prepared to do.
Why? I'm not rubbing my vulva on the bedsheets. The size of my backside means my actual arsehole is buried with about three inches of butt crack between it and the bed covers.
MiddlesexGirl · 18/12/2020 20:04

I'm surprised at people not knowing that it's better for urinary tract and vaginal health not to wear underwear while sleeping.
Fine if you've never suffered I guess.

Hangingover · 18/12/2020 20:04

I wear loose cotton PJ and no pants to bed and I don't wash them every day. Nothing happens.

Fifilafrog · 18/12/2020 20:04

I have hilarious images in my mind of asphyxiated fannies gasping for breath when we take our knickers off now! 😂

I sleep in knickers or shorty pjs normally. DH has always encouraged me to sleep without but I have explained that I have an irrational fear of spiders crawling up there (no idea why, as if they'd even want to?! 🥴). HOWEVER. One time when I did sleep without, I swore I could feel something and when DH and I checked there was a bloody grasshopper in the bed!! Point made! 😂

AddisonM · 18/12/2020 20:11

...why am I still reading this thread??

NotBehindTheRadiatorPlease · 18/12/2020 20:11

If the seam is going up your arse, they're too small.

Unfairestofthemall · 18/12/2020 20:15

I wear knickers or something simply because I don't think the bed should be treated like a giant pair of knickers!
I can't sleep without pants on and I complain bitterly if anyone else tries to sleep without bottoms on in my bed also.
Fair play to those who can though but I would be washing sheets everyday and I don't have time for that

MostlyAmbridgeandcoffee · 18/12/2020 20:22

I genuinely didn’t know that not wearing knickers to bed was a thing !!

MitziK · 18/12/2020 20:22

In one of my mother's more forthright moments, she said that the actual reason it was expected to wear underwear in bed was a throwback to earlier times - it was to stop children touching themselves (or being touched when people were were poorer and shared beds) at night and people used 'it's cleaner' as a euphemism.

nevernotstruggling · 18/12/2020 20:25

I have day and night pants. It's a thing...and yeh to not treating sheets like knickers. 🤮

pinkdragons · 18/12/2020 20:26

*And women did not wear knickers with gussets.

Bloomers were two legs on a waist band with - shock- and open gusset.*

So what happened the vaginal discharge (especially the EWM we're advised to look out for, on the conception boards). Just down the leg/ on the floor/ sheets?

I've always been a knicker wearer myself.

LastChristmas20 · 18/12/2020 20:26

@midnightstar66

Well whatever goes against your bare bum needs washed after each wear - be that pants or pyjamas, jeans, joggers - pants are there to negate the need for washing each time. If you don't wear them then you need to wash the clothing!
Clothes I get as you're walking in the pants and pulling them back up after a wee/poo etc.

But I go to bed clean. The sheets don't get in my crack (front or back)

There's only skin touching them.

NuniaBeeswax · 18/12/2020 20:27

Dirty pigs. I only sleep on disposable plastic sheets after I've had my hourly bleach shower.

LastChristmas20 · 18/12/2020 20:27

@pinkdragons

*And women did not wear knickers with gussets.

Bloomers were two legs on a waist band with - shock- and open gusset.*

So what happened the vaginal discharge (especially the EWM we're advised to look out for, on the conception boards). Just down the leg/ on the floor/ sheets?

I've always been a knicker wearer myself.

I've had a lot of EWCM in my time - but never enough to be down my leg! What?!
SirSamuelVimes · 18/12/2020 20:28

@nevernotstruggling

I have day and night pants. It's a thing...and yeh to not treating sheets like knickers. 🤮
But unless you are wrapping the sheets between your legs, thereby making direct contact with the vulva, you aren't treating the sheets like knickers, are you?

Unless you have urinary incontinence and are gently dribbling piss all night, I don't see an issue.

LastChristmas20 · 18/12/2020 20:28

@MostlyAmbridgeandcoffee

I genuinely didn’t know that not wearing knickers to bed was a thing !!
Did you know that sex was a thing?
LastChristmas20 · 18/12/2020 20:29

@SirSamuelVimes "gently dribbling piss" made me nose snort.

SirSamuelVimes · 18/12/2020 20:29

@pinkdragons

*And women did not wear knickers with gussets.

Bloomers were two legs on a waist band with - shock- and open gusset.*

So what happened the vaginal discharge (especially the EWM we're advised to look out for, on the conception boards). Just down the leg/ on the floor/ sheets?

I've always been a knicker wearer myself.

Yeah, if you have sufficient vaginal discharge to have it dribbling down your leg, see your GP asap.
iwantmyownicecreamvan · 18/12/2020 20:31

Due to the shape of a human, it's impossible to make trousers without a crotch seam. Unless you have harem pants with loads of low slung draped fabric.

Or a gusset.

If the seam is going up your arse, they're too small.

No they aren't - they are virtually falling off when I'm not in bed because they're a bit too big, but when in bed when I wriggle about they ride up and up. If it was as easy as getting a bigger size I would have sorted it out years ago.