The History of Pajamas and the Myth of Coco Chanel
Get the exclusive NordVPN deal here: Its risk free with Nords 30 day moneyback guarantee Thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring this video. Whenever I see a claim that a famous person popularized or even invented a seemingly common type of fashion, I know I m in for some lengthy research. Especially when so many of the articles claiming that had admitted in the previous paragraphs that a style was quite old before it reached said famous hands. Simple menswear was not popularized by Beau Brummell, he simple became well known while wearing it. Likewise, Coco Chanel did not popularize pajamas for day wear, trousers for women, the little black dress, or knitwear. But it s not enough to just dismiss the claims, regardless of their spurious lack of citations. We need to know how these garments actually came to be what we know them as today Luckily pajamas have a well recorded history and were the object of discussion in 19th and
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