Word: nightdress
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...tiger's stripes on its tank suit ($19), also offers a cobra-skin pattern if stripes don't suit. Most stylish are the Courreges-inspired underpinnings of Formfit-Rogers. The full slip ($9), in white with black banding, can easily double as a nightdress or a playdress...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Sorcerer has powerful magic. Depending on whether they believed their tickets or their programs, at 8:00 or 8:30 in trooped the opening-nightdress: grim. Two hours later they streamed out: smiling. The G & S Sorcerer cast a spell on them, from the start: "Forget your notes of mournful lay," the chorus commanded, "and from your throats pour joy today." All obeyed...
...dead lover's heart in a casket, he had it plucked out and served up in a stew. Though the clergy openly kept concubines till the 16th century, bodily love bore the taint of anathema. Sample bedgear for many a medieval wife was the chemise cagoule, "a heavy nightdress with a suitably placed hole through which the husband could impregnate his wife while avoiding any other contact...
From the start, Hopital Trousseau "looked sinister"; the head nurse seemed like a heartless virago. Peggy was not allowed her "pretty, rose nightdress," instead got "a veritable sack." Under regulations barring money and jewels, she could not even keep her religious medal. "Pay for eight days," said the cashier. "If she doesn't last that long, you'll get the extra money back." On return visits, Micheline Vernhes had to wait outside the gates, often in the rain; Peggy sobbed hysterically each time her mother had to leave her alone after the brief visiting hours. After eight days...
...obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample of the brothel-born maunderings of Ulysses' protagonist Leopold Bloom: "I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester ... I stand, so to speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulation fee before the too late box of the general postoffice...