"Where Style Meets Comfort"



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Guess what I’m talking about.  You have three guesses, but two of them don’t count.

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Pajama Jeans.

            I just love how they try to sell these things.  They said “Where style meets comfort” about 500 times.  Then they went on and on about how people wear these things to the absolute fanciest occasions and people think they are wearing $200 expensive, designer jeans.   I want some of those.

            However, these are all lies.  I have seen real people wearing Pajama Jeans, and although I wouldn’t know at first they were wearing them, people just love to tell you how clever they were.  “Do you like my jeans?” they ask, “They’re pajama jeans.”

            Of course, it’s disturbing enough that people actually want you to know they are wearing fleece-lined drawstring knit pants.  That’s disturbing enough.  Worse, though, these people actually want to wear them.  I can understand that yes, they’re comfortable, and they make your butt look great (which certainly is enough to buy any pair of pants) and they don’t gap.  (This is from real people reviews.  On TV they just repeat, over and over “Where style meets comfort, where style meets comfort.”)  The question is, can knit fleece-lined drawstring pants that feel like pajamas actually make you both look and feel stylish?  I know that no matter whether I am wearing ugly ugly sweatpants or gorgeously pretty sweatpants-feeling pants, I kind of feel lazy when I wear them.  I feel great when I’m sleeping with them, and I feel great walking around and blogging in them, but I don’t think I would feel so  great going to work at my undisclosed job in them.

            I’m not suggesting that style meeting comfort is a bad thing, or that it’s bad to wear really comfortable clothes to formal occasions, but I don’t think I could wear pajamas and feel stylish.  Really nice clothes often feel really comfortable, but they don’t feel like they’ll make me go to   sleep, they make me feel fantastic. 

            I genuinely wonder, though, if those jeans make other people feel as sleepy as I’m sure they’d make me feel.