{"id":2909,"date":"2012-04-19T05:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2012-04-14T18:11:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T01:11:18","slug":"women-wearing-pants-sleeping-lounging-and-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/women-wearing-pants-sleeping-lounging-and-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Wearing Pants: Sleeping, Lounging and the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbisimages.com\/stock-photo\/rights-managed\/HU051699\/women-play-bowls?popup=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbisimages.com\/images\/Corbis-HU051699.jpg?size=67&amp;uid=ed72777d-90d6-41a7-aabd-092ed6e90735\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">June  1, 1935: &quot;Women Play Bowls A bowls match with participants wearing the  latest fashion in beach pyjamas, England, 1935.&quot; Via Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Initially introduced as fashionable women\u2019s wear in 1922 by Paul Poiret  as pajamas, they eventually evolved into casual wear worn for specific  occasions&#8211; for sleeping, lounging and the beach (Watson, 2004).  Lounging pajamas, according to <em>Vogue<\/em>, were for \u201cwhen informal  entertainments and masquerades are the order of the day.\u201d   Chanel  helped with the general acceptance of women\u2019s trousers, and was often  seen wearing sailor-style pants. Pants of this era were loose with an  elastic or drawstring waists with a side closure (Mendes &amp; De La  Haye, 1999).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially introduced as fashionable women\u2019s wear in 1922 by Paul Poiret as pajamas, they eventually evolved into casual wear worn for specific occasions&#8211; for sleeping, lounging and the beach (Watson, 2004). Lounging pajamas, according to Vogue, were for \u201cwhen informal entertainments and masquerades are the order of the day.\u201d Chanel helped with the general acceptance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,91,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}