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the only outfit equally appropriate for sleeping, mourning, and refusing to leave the house.
means Loose, lightweight clothing — typically a top and trousers — worn for sleeping or lounging.
from From Hindi and Urdu 'pāyjāma,' itself from Persian 'pāy' (leg) plus 'jāma' (garment) — literally 'leg-clothing.' These loose drawstring trousers were everyday wear across South Asia and Persia long before British colonials adopted them as comfortable nightwear and carried the word home in the 19th century, where it eventually came to mean the whole sleep-and-lounge ensemble.
persian rootsname comes from Persian for leg garment
colonial importBritish brought them home from India in 1800s
silent factorpajama parties now mean serious productivity for some
flame rulesUS law requires children's pajamas to resist fire