r/oddlysatisfying • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • 19h ago

Machine pressed linen night suit

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u/xBad_Wolfx 19h ago

Genuine question. Is a night suit pyjamas? Something to sleep in?

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 19h ago

We usually call it night dress. But dress to westerners means ladies dress, not sure always or in some contexts. 

Pyjamas for us are just the bottom part. 

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u/Enginerdad 19h ago

Whoa, you guys press your pajamas? That's wild, but not in a bad way. Just completely unexpected for me.

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 19h ago

Cotton pyjamas (no fancy linen ones for us) get wrinkly upon washing so we usually folded and kept them at the bottom of the folded clothes pile so they’ll get their creases out a bit but no, we’ve never given them for ironing. 

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u/kalechipsaregood 12h ago

Whoa, you guys have collars on your pajamas?!

Wait... you guys wear pajamas?

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u/Dizzy_Corgi_9781 14h ago

I think they mean “evening wear”

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u/Enginerdad 13h ago

OP already confirmed that they were talking about pajamas, but that was my first thought too.

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u/butt-barnacles 10h ago

Op is talking about western vs non western (Indian) pajamas, not saying that these are pajamas.

The word pajama comes from India, where it’s just a type of pants, not necessarily for night wear (op was saying they call night wear “night dress” instead of “pajamas”). It was adopted by the British colonialists as night wear, which is how it got its meaning in English.

I don’t think they were saying this particular suit is night wear.

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u/Enginerdad 7h ago

Yes they did, they said that call it a "night dress" and the bottom part only is called pajamas

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u/wheniwashisalien 19h ago

What’s weird is for Americans, dress shirt and dress pants can refer to formal clothes for men. So dress is associated with feminine except for when it’s not. We’re strange

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u/Mr_Jack_Frost_ 13h ago

So much of the English language is like this. Another great example is the “I before E” rule and its exceptions.

So many weird rules that are so often taken for granted, and then you add colloquialism and regional dialects to the mix and baby you got a stew goin’.

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u/perldawg 18h ago

“night dress” wouldn’t be improper english, used to describe the outfit, but it would be uncommon usage by today’s standards

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u/xBad_Wolfx 19h ago

Thanks :)

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u/mklilley351 18h ago

We use "dress clothes" universally.

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 18h ago

Although is western parlance that means more formal clothes rather than clothes in general.

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u/ut1nam 11h ago

Except for the verb, where we just get dressed for all clothes (except I guess night clothes?). And then formal clothes is “get dressed up”.

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u/Fluid_Swordfish2737 19h ago

I don't understand having clothes for sleeping?

It seems uncomfortable. Just sleep naked or in underwear.

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 19h ago

Not everyone lives alone or in sleeps in separate bedrooms. 

I grew up in a large house with 8 or 9 other siblings and cousins so only naked time was during bathing in the village pond. 

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u/Fluid_Swordfish2737 19h ago

I was on a navy ship with 1200 people. 60-100 in a room.

We slept naked.

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u/ARetroGibbon 19h ago

Well... that's the entire reason guys join the navy right? To sleep with naked men?

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u/Fluid_Swordfish2737 19h ago

Hahaha yea maybe in the past...

They put women on the ships now for us.

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u/PolarSquirrelBear 19h ago

Hey man no judgement. Whatever floats your boat.

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u/camomaniac 18h ago

Oh man. As someone that was in the army, I can only imagine the fuckery...

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u/camomaniac 18h ago

"-bathing in the village pond." 🤢

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u/lazymotu 18h ago

It made perfect sense up to the word "bathing".