What are you doing tonight? With the sun setting before 4.30pm, the onset of winter is enough to make even the most sociable of us want nothing more after work than a simple formula: sofa, sweatpants, a series on the laptop and – depending on whether your mood is more Olivia Pope or the Queen – a glass of wine or a nice cup of tea. Guess what? That is not a cop-out this year. In fact, it is the height of fashion. We have reached peak effortless dressing and are now at “can’t be asked”. Sofa dressing is the off-duty look for 2018.
The fashion site Man Repeller calls it “sleepleisure” and is in favour of it. So is the retailer Farfetch. “It’s a reflection of a big shift towards comfort,” says Celenie Seidel, Farfetch’s market editor. She cites 2012’s “cosy boy” phenomenon, which had the soft-sweatpant- and baseball-jersey-wearing hip-hop collective A$AP Mob as figureheads. You could also credit Kendall Jenner and Rihanna, with their XXXXL hoodies; Hailey Baldwin in a tracksuit at the airport; and Elle Fanning in one at a party.
The brand to know is Les Boys Les Girls, the label by the co-founder of Agent Provocateur, Serena Rees, which sells underwear, but also hoodies, T-shirts and shorts to sleep in. Forget hygge – it describes itself as “bed to street”. If you need a reference, try kalsarikänni, or “pants drunk”, the Finnish anti-hygge, which is all about, well, getting drunk in your pants. Even if you are on a no-booze day and wearing a little bit more, the proudly slobby style sentiment is easy to get behind.
The move to reclaim comfort clothes for outside the home has been underway for ages: pyjama dressing has gone from school gates to Saturday night, while the duster robe – essentially a dressing gown – has become a favourite with fashion editors and other people who are photographed “out and about” for a living. But now it is the clothes you reserve for a night in front of the box that are in the frame. You know the kind – the big T-shirt you have had for ages, teamed with leggings and unicorn slippers. The grey trackies and matching hoodie. The pyjama shorts and dressing gown. The comfy nightdress you change into way before bedtime.
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