Today’s post is brought to you by Brooklinen. Stay until the end for a giveaway (open to all subscribers)!
I have always been a person who has had nice sheets. This started in the ‘90s when my mother allowed me a once-every-other-year choice from the Garnet Hill catalog. As I grew older, and lived with roommates or studio apartments, I always thought of sheets as the “outfit” of a bedroom.
While I’ve been known to spend ungodly amounts of money on sheets, the bedtime outfits I wear in them are downright dumb — promo T-shirts for beer brands, too many KCRW tops, T-shirts I bought from Forever 21, 21 years ago. I REFUSE to ever spend money on pajamas. I’d like to be that person, but I am so cheap. But it really doesn’t make sense…like, all this money spent on sheets and I could just direct some of that budget to some sleepwear that’s halfway decent. Instead, here I am, dreaming about my teeth falling out in a shirt that I got in a 2009 gift bag for Scoop NYC.
I started thinking about this dichotomy recently and thought I would show you some of my “lewks,” which I curated with the help of Brooklinen*, a brand I use and love.
Look #1: Sexy British Gentleman
For the chillier months in L.A. (and yes, we do get those), I prefer a cozy, masculine bedding outfit. (That’s a flannel duvet and a wool throw blanket and you can bet I also have a heating pad under the sheets.)
To pair with this look: A vintage Gant button-up that has seen so many better days, a hand-me-down from my (sexy) British husband.
Look #2: POWER CLASHHHH!!
One of the good things about being a bedding whore is that your bed “outfits” don’t need to be matchy-matchy. I love a pattern clash situation, which is fun if you stay in the color palette, but even more risqué if you thrown in a wildcard like this very orange Pendleton blanket.
To pair with this look: A Universal Studios T-shirt with neon writing so bright it almost glows in the dark. This shirt is so intimately acquainted with my perimenopausal sweats that is has a permanent, vaguely musky odor. Yummmm.
Look #3: “Living My Truth”
I call this outfit “Living My Truth” because the burgundy-blue color combo is a definite trend and while I like to pretend trends don’t exist, I sometimes feel magnetically drawn to follow suit, like a sheep.
To pair with this look: Okay, so this vintage American Girl/Pleasant Company T-shirt was actually a great Poshmark score. But I didn’t take care of it and it went from white to “B.O. Stain” grayish-brown.
Brooklinen Giveaway!!
One lucky Schmatta reader will win this Brooklinen Check Lambswool Throw Blanket. I own this. I love it! I once spilled red wine on it, and it didn’t even soak in, I just gently brushed it off.
Giveaway Details:
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I will select a winner on March 28th. Good luck!
*All of the sheets Brooklinen provided for this shoot were donated to victims of the Eaton Fire.
Schmatta is written by Leonora Epstein, a former shelter pub editor-in-chief. Follow at @_leonoraepstein and/or @schmattamag.
You will have to rip my 1994 swimming t-shirt off my cold dead corpse--it goes very well with my $300 linen sheets.
Old old old tshirts are the comfiest to sleep in, that's just facts