The blanket sleeper or footie pajama (also known by many synonyms and other trade names) is the type of nightwear mainly worn during the winter months in the United States and Canada.. Clothing worn mainly by infants and small children.
Usually, but not always, the sleeping quilts consist of loose, loose one-piece garments that cover the entire body except the head and hands. This is a transitional step between a regular pajamas, and a baby-like cover such as a buntings or baby sleeping bag (the Terminology and Variations section below). Like a cover like a bag, the sleeping blanket is designed to be warm enough to make regular blankets or other unnecessary bed covers, even in cold weather. Unlike such a cover, the bed covers have branched legs to allow uninterrupted walking (or crawling).
Although there is no single universal feature (see Terminology), distinguishing bed covers from regular pajamas usually includes:
- One-piece construction with long arms and legs.
- Attached bootees attach the wearer's feet.
- The composition of thick fabric is relatively thick.
Although sleepwear with some or all of these characteristics can be called blanket , this term is most often applied to a variety of relatively few distorted styles of the same basic design. (Features of this design are described in the Features section, below).
Video Blanket sleeper
Features
Common sleeping duvet features often include:
- Typically made of synthetic sleeping fabrics, such as polyester or polar fleece; but people who use heavier natural fabrics like cotton are also available, they are not common in North America due to strict regulations about flammability.
- Fit loosely. At smaller sizes, the hip area can be loosened to accommodate the diapers. Groin is usually cut very low.
- Arm Raglan.
- A comfortable knit collar and wrist cuff.
- Usually made in one or more solid colors, bright, or screen printed with graphic design. There may be a front panel with an intricate single print design, either covering the chest, or forming the entire front of the torso and legs. The arm may be a different color from the rest of the garment. The lines are sometimes seen, most often on collars and cuffs.
- The soles of a vinyl (usually white) foot are coated with (synthetic) felt, for better durability and slip resistance. It can be a dense vinyl with a coarse textured surface, or a vinyl dotted fabric such as Jiffy Grip.
- The foot closure option, made of the same fabric as the sole of the foot, and cover the front of the upper leg, to improve endurance.
- Elastic to make the legs feel comfortable around the ankles.
- A zipper that runs vertically on the front of the garment, from the opening of the neck to the inside or the ankle of one of the legs (usually to the left), designed to make it easy to install and release. In adolescent and adult size, the zipper usually runs from the neck to the crotch.
- Optional snap tab where the zipper meets the opening of the neck. It is a small tab of cloth sewn into garment on one side of the zipper (usually right), and fastened to the other side with a snap binder, designed to prevent discomfort from the zipper slider that comes in contact with the user's chin and obstructs access to the zipper.
- Optional decorative sticker on one side of the chest (usually on the left).
- Optional hood.
- Mittens/mitt option (especially in infants and sleeping costumes).
Although primarily worn by the young, sleeping quilts are also worn (in descending order of frequency) by school-age children, adolescents, and even adults. (See Size, gender difference, and availability , below).
Although one-piece clothing in a variety of fabrics and styles is used in many countries as baby underwear, the range of styles specific to the term blanket is usually related, the term itself, although older children of babies wearing muscular sleepwear, one piece concentrated in the Western world.
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Design considerations
Sleeping quilts are usually meant as practical clothing, worn mainly by younger children and especially at home. Style and fashion thus tend to be unimportant in design, and the basic design of a typical quilt bed has changed little over the years.
Sleep mainly serves to keep the wearer warm at night, even without blankets and bed covers. Sleep covers the whole body except the head (except in certain cases where the hood exists) and (in most cases) the hand (except in the case where the bed has mitt attached, mostly on baby size), where it is comfortable at the neck and wrist hand. The use of zipper closures instead of buttons or snap fasteners also further maintains warmth by eliminating concepts. This is especially important for infants, for whom a loose blanket may pose a safety hazard (including increasing the risk of SIDS), and perhaps for older children, who may be too young to be relied upon to keep their own customized sleepwear or bed cover. thus preventing exposure of bare skin air. This is reflected in advertisements by manufacturers of bed covers, which often emphasize that their clothes "can not be kicked", or "no other cover is necessary". Permanently attached legs can also be a useful feature for vulnerable children to get out of bed in the morning before their parents are awake, and too young to be relied upon to wear sandals or other footwear to keep their feet warm, as well as for adults who feel wearing, and/or wearing socks on the bed is too much trouble, but still want their feet closed when waking up in the morning. Sleeping a blanket without legs allows more room for growth and reduces the chances of slipping. Also, children with bigger or smaller feet find a better fit.
The sleeping duvet is designed so that it can be worn by itself as a stand-alone outfit, or as a second layer worn over regular pajamas or other nightwear. A simple one-piece design for washing and has no removable parts that can be misplaced.
Yet another potential benefit of the sleeping quilt is that it can help prevent babies from removing or disrupting their diapers at night. It can also be applied to older children with certain developmental disabilities, such as Angelman's syndrome. In particular, Angelman's children's parents have been known to take extra steps such as cutting the foot from sleep and putting it behind, and/or covering the zipper with masking tape. Some special locking clothing and other adaptive clothing suppliers offer bed covers, with or without feet, for adults with dementia or other disabilities, for the same reason.
Sleeping comforters may also be of interest to cultural customs relating to body politeness. This can, for example, be considered for some parents when siblings sleep in the same room and/or bed.
Materials
The range of materials used for mass-produced blankets for children is very limited, as a result of the stringent flammability requirements imposed by the US government. Basically the only materials used since 1950 are polyester, acrylic, and modacrylic, with polyester dominating. Unfortunately, this can have a negative impact on convenience for many users, especially children with eczema. A small amount of sleep is made of cotton.
Sleep adult sizes, especially those sold by small internet businesses, can be found in a wider variety of materials, including natural fabrics like flannel cotton. Some web businesses also offer sleep in natural fabrics for children, but only outside the US. In particular, special czech clothing for children, made of cotton and with built-in sarongs designed to prevent scratches, is available from specialty stores in the UK.
The fabrics used on most bedding have a strong tendency to polish. While this does not affect the functional utility of the garment, it has the effect that the garments used can be clearly, visually different from the new ones after only a small amount of wear or laundry.
Decorative features like appliques or print designs typically follow teen themes, and are designed to make clothes more appealing to children who wear them. Some sleeping adults can also have appliques on them, but they tend to be from Internet clothing suppliers who offer specially made sleep and tend to be favorite cartoon characters or items that the wearer has in childhood such as teddy bears and animal representatives that they have pets.
Size, gender difference and availability
In the United States and Canada, mass-produced sleepwear for boys and girls up to size 4 (see US standard apparel size) is fairly common, and can be found in almost all department stores and online. Sizes larger than 4 are increasingly uncommon, found only in some stores and online, and usually only seasonally (peaking around October or November). The availability of larger beds in department stores also varies from year to year.
Alternative sources for larger sizes, mass-produced beds include Internet auction sites, such as eBay, and certain mail order clothing retailers, such as Lands' End.
Individual bed covers can be marketed either as unisex garments, or as a garment designated for one gender. Even in the latter case, however, there is often no difference in style between bed marketed specifically for boys, and that is marketed specifically for girls. (Number size is also consistent, because, although there is little difference in the sense of the number of sizes between boys and girls in the US standard clothing size system, this is too small for problems in the case of garments as loose-fitting as a sleeping quilt). Sometimes, however, marketed bedding for girls may include decorative feminine features such as frill lacy ones, and sleeping with a screen-print front panel can display interesting media character images especially for children of one gender. Also, the range of available colors may differ between the sexes, especially the pink youth rarely worn by boys because of the color cultural association with femininity. Unisex designs and colors offer a more sustainable option that allows the most use over time.
In smaller sizes, there is little or no difference in the availability of sleep for boys and girls. Sleepers for older boys are somewhat less common than for older girls. However, sleep for both boys and girls continues to be available in the department store, especially during the fall and winter, and throughout the year on the internet to a size of 16-18.
Sleeping blankets for adult women is usually relatively uncommon, but since 2010 has increased in popularity and can be found in many department stores, usually in colder months.
Sleeping quilts that are mass produced for adult men are less common. However, publishers of large home sewing patterns sometimes offer patterns for conventional stylish nightwear in men's sizes, and in the Internet Age the home industry has grown, with some websites offering small-scale bed covers produced for men and women and children. child. Also, mass-produced and unisex-marketed nightwear marketed for women is sometimes purchased and worn by men, although the difference in size ranges between men and women means that this option is only available to smaller men.
Terminology
The terminology associated with sleeping quilts can be confusing, and inconsistent between different speakers.
The terms sleeper and blanket sleeper are sometimes used interchangeably. Alternatively, the distinction can be made between the lighter (incandescent, one-piece) sleep used by infants in warmer weather, and the thicker blankets used by both babies and older children, especially in colder weather. (In a loosest use, sleeper by itself can mean any baby's sleepwear, regardless of shape or feature). Similarly, some people consider the blanket sleeper to be one-piece by definition, whereas sleeper can be made either in one piece, or in two parts meet at the waist.
When blanket is ignored, either single sleeper or plural form sleepers can be used to refer to a single garment. When blanket is included, however, a single dress is usually called using a single form.
The terms (blanket) sleeper and footwear can be used interchangeably. (This reflects North American practice by referring to almost all nightwear as pajamas, since the sleeping boys have little resemblance to a combination of jackets and pants, originally from India, called pajamas i> originally called). Alternatively, sleeper can be used more narrowly than foot pajamas , to exclude lighter legs and/or two-piece lingerie, such as "pajama-style" skiing.
Also, while many people consider embedded feet to be part of the definition of sleeper , the garment instead meets the definition but less foot is sometimes marketed as bedding mattresses .
The term grow up is sometimes used to refer to a two-legged sleepwear with features designed to compensate for the growth of the wearer, such as a cuffback, or a double row of snap fasteners at the waist.
Another term used over-or-less alternately with bed blankets includes:
- footies or footies
- sleep with leg
- foot-legged (include foot/footy/footed/footsie/feet/feety/footed/footsie and can use everyday terms for pajamas like pjs or jammies)
- pajamas with (a) feet (in them)
- padded pajamas
- bunny (legs) pajamas or rabbit setting
- one-piece pajamas
- zip-up pajamas
- pajamas blankets
- nightdress/sleep
- bed covers
- sleep sherpa
- running blanket
- goes to sleep
- sleeper walker
- oversleeper (used in ads by J. C. Penney)
- nightlife
- onesie
- potato mashers
- dormer (women and girls only)
Also, a number of commercial brand names have been adopted as generic trademarks. The most famous of these is Dr. Dentons , but others are used including "Big Feet", Trundle Bundle (common use in Southside of Chicago), and Jama-Blanket .
Previously used, outdated terms include:
- night drawer
- bedroom drawer
- sleepwear (used in advertising by Doctor Denton Sleeping Mills)
- sleep cover
- pajunion (used in ads by Brighton-Carlsbad)
In English English, the term with the closest meaning to blanket is sleepwear , but it is also known as a romper dress .
Baby clothing is similar to a sleeping blanket, but with a bottom that is constructed like a bag, no separate footprints, it is usually not considered sleeping , but is more referred to with other terms such as baby. sleeping bags, bedding , sleeping bags , go go bags , sacks , or develop a bag .
Baby clothes are similar to sleeping blankets, but are designed to be used as outerwear rather than sleepwear (and usually show hoods and gloves), called other terms like prerequisite settings , snowsuit , or carriage settings . Some of these outfits are designed for double use as both sleepwear and playwear, sometimes known as sleep 'n' play clothes.
History
The origins of the sleeping quilts can be traced at least as far back as the late 19th century, for one-piece footwear for children, later known as the night drawer . The first company to mass-produce mattress covers was Doctor Denton Sleeping Mills, who began using the term "sleeping garment", for their clothing, starting in 1865, and most having buttons rather than zippers (since zippers were not found until the early 20th century ), and trap or ass doors in the back, since the early beddressers, quite clearly, took the same basic design as the traditional union suit (which may be where the idea of ​​sleep originated, as the children's version of their father's union suit). However, the first sleeping blanket took something very similar to its present form in the early 1950s, when many of the most recognizable features were first adopted, including the use of synthetic fabrics, slip-resistant soles, foot hats, collars and cuff knit ribs, zipper closures, snap tab, and applique. The term "blanket sleeper" is also first used publicly today, although sleeper by itself appears much earlier.
Sleep made before the 1950s is usually made of natural knitted fabrics, either cotton, wool (especially merino), or a mixture of both. Commonly used fabrics include flannel outs and flannel fabrics. (Artificial sleep is usually made from cut pieces of fabric that are cut from the actual blanket.) The soles of the feet are usually made of the same material as the rest of the bed, although sometimes two layers are used to increase endurance. Collars and handcuffs are usually confined, and sleeping people are usually covered with buttons, either in front or behind.
Natural fabrics were largely abandoned after the Flammable Fabrics Act of 1953, which imposes strict flammability requirements on children's sleepwear sold in the United States, up to size 14. The need for flammability was tightened further in the early 1970s , and in 1977 TRIS fire retardant additives were found to be carcinogenic, triggering recalls, and leading to the neglect of additives and substances that depended on them for their burning resilience.
The popularity of bed covers for older children got a boost in the 1970s and early 1980s because of the energy crisis of 1973 and 1979. Ads from this period often emphasize that thermostats can be set lower at night when the kids' children sleep in a blanket sleep.
Variations
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