The benefits of dressing up to stay in — and why they outweigh dressing up to go out
LA TimesThis story is part of Image’s May issue, Homemaking, about home and the many ways we choose to make it. With a little Woolite — and the stomach to ignore the tsk-tsk of “dry clean only” — it’ll survive a hundred washings. Inside, my bare feet walk on the qilim my mother “lent” me 15 years ago, and the air’s laced with cardamom from my decaf-black virgin nightcap. Going silk is like what I imagine it felt like to step into the ’70s and burn your bras — there’s no way back. After over a decade of sitting cross-legged on the sofa in these silk pajama pants, reading or watching something; after over a decade of tossing and turning in them as I made and remade myself in cities and careers that were miles and miles apart; after over a decade of washing them, not by hand like my other silks, but by throwing them in the monstrous machine at the laundromat with regular detergent, and yes, sometimes, even machine-drying them — after over a decade of use and abuse, I only just recently had to have a couple seams resewn.
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