General Chat

Glad you are going to be nice and snug now Chris, and if the one from Damart comes and you like it, it's always handy to have a spare one around. I saw some nice fluffy ones in Tesco yesterday £16 but was going to use one of my vouchers for £5 doubled up so would have only cost me £6, I took it out the bag to try against me but it wasn't ankle lenght so it went back in the packaging. I suppose with my warm boots it would have been ok but will have a think about it, there were leopard skin patterns and bright pink with heart shapes among other designs.

Lizx

Persey, maybe you are another of my long lost rellies lol seem to be a few on these boards who could be my sisters lol

I do wish you a comfy warm winter after all this.

Cheers Persey

Might just keep it Jean if it is long enough - after all the hassle in getting a long one at least I will have a spare!!!!

Try again. the page just rolled up and reverted to my e-mail page! Phone Damart and explain that you have been given one and cancel the order. Or wait until it comes, return it, but unfortunately you will have to pay postage.

Well its like buses - none and then 2/3 come along. I got a Da..rt brochure a few days ago, there was a long dressing gown and gave length measurements, filled in the form - no stamp. Today in Sainsburys - long dgowns, bought one and said to OH won't need to post that Damart order off now. He has posted it minus stamp!!!!!!!

Chris do you want it to come down to the floor or would ankle length be ok? Will have a look in our place today, I'm the same height as you so will try a few on.

I adore my men's M&S dressing gown! Having bought my husband one a few years ago I borrowed it all the time - so bought my own. Much nicer colours with no fufffy pink

Seems to keep happening to us Liz - we've quite often been through the same things as per other threads.....
I should have kept a list of them..

Persey xx LOL

Persey, we sound two of a kind lol as sometimes I get the men's pjs if Lidls don't have the women's ones in stock.

xx

Hi there

I am 5 ft 8 and size 24. I treated myself last year to one from the USA (hubby paid a combined birthday and Xmas pressie) Website is http://www.arus.com/ and worth every penny. Thick heavy long and cosy and the larger size fits round me and has a good wrap over.

Sue

I wear mens pyjamas in the winter they are lovely and fleecy and one pair are black with Jim Beam and the red seal written all over them. With that and my black furry boots - I look very fetching going out to get the paper from the mail box of a morning.

Liz - a knitted dressing gown for a little child is a boon, one of mine had one and it seemed to stretch as she grew... it lasted ages as well.

Persey

Evans do lovely soft fleecy dressing gowns I bought myself a beautiful cerise pink one last year and is very cuddly to wear.
Don't have a fit at the mention of Evans cos they do start from size 12 & upwards.
I did buy one of those Slankets for grandaughter last Xmas cos she gets cold even in the central heating .she loves it and can snuggle down to watch TV but then walk around in safety when she needs to, We always said she had round feet cos she would trip over nothing!! her slanket gives her the freedom to be warm and safe

I made a dressing gown for my young son out of a lovely velvet dress that had got too small for me. That was 45 yrs ago. There is still a large square of that material here that is used for polishing up the furniture. Good material in those days.

Jean, the blankets are a bit long so you might trip unless you tied a sash round them and the only cover the front of you so when you get up your back would be chilly.

I wear pjs from Lidls, when they have them I stock up, as they have cuffs round the ankle so even if a bit long for my 5'6" height, the bunched up bit keeps me warm. I used to like flannalette pjs in the traditional men's style but find the legs ride up in bed so I get chilly, mind you I wear bedsocks too, I have always been a chilly mortal lol

One thing I did when my son was small instead of buying a dressing gown, was to knit him one, I made a cardigan/jacket pattern much longer and it was nice and snug and fitted him for a long time.

Lizx

I want full length nighties with short sleeves in a non-iron fabric. I dont mind silky as I pile fleece blankets on the bed so am not cold. Have a full length dressing gown, from Cotton traders a few years ago. Would like to buy one of those microfibre sleeved blankets, but cant find out if you can walk in them, also not sure i'd take it off in the winter! Keep the heating bills down though.

I used to wear those desert boot slippers and lovely and warm they were too. Even bought teenaged gdau (she was then) a pair. Unfortunately I now need a slipper with a thick nonslip sole.

At 5'1", I find all PJ's far to long, and have to shorten them. Also they are so baggy, I could make another pair out of the surplus, well nearly. Similarly, dressing gowns to come abit longer.
Julia in Derbyshire

If the legs are too long,Its amazing what a pair of Pinking Shears and a Needle and cotton can do.Or hemming tape.**M**.

Wear PJ's and the furry boot type slippers.

Hi Chris, hope you find the length you're after.

Interesting to learn what the M&S supervisor had to say to you - but she's talking rubbish!! LOL :) Because I've been looking for PJ's for ages now, with full length legs, and on every set they have I find the legs too long, just right for tripping over!! Yet I'm 5'3" so I'm not particularly short.
I can get the top to fit perfick, but the legs are always too long. Why do they do that?
None of the M&S staff can answer me on that. They then suggest I buy the cropped ones, or the PJ separates. OK, but they only sell the nice silky type PJ's in sets, not as separates. Now I wonder why do they do that? Cos again, none of the M&S staff can tell me!!
What a chore!!! LOL
Who said shopping was easy!


DIsgruntled of the desert.