Last winter (or was it the winter before?) I remember K wanting to buy
some pyjamas. I all but scoffed at her. Where the hell is the joy in
pyjamas? In winter, it's tracksuit pants you want, fleecy and snug, this
is where real joy comes from. I was vehement in my brain if not in my
derision of her quest for jarmies. I know she found some and I know they
brought her great joy. A joy I did not believe was real. Fleece track
suit pants was the only way to find winter peace.
Well that is all well and good when one owns a good pair of tracksuit
pants. Dare to dream, I used to say. Also, I used to own joy-bringing
pants, a fleecy, warm pair. But time wearies all things of beauty, so
too these pants and we had to part. Last year I was on a mission to find
what I like to call BSMs, or Bella Swan maternity pants, the pants
Kristen Stewart wears during Bella's entire pregnancy in Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn Part 1.
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Here are Bella and Sparkleface enjoying at tender moment as they await the birth of their vampiric progeny |
They are sort of fitted, yet tracksuity and I
thought they would answer my tracksuit prayers. But lo, like vampires,
such a pant seems not to exist outside of the realm of fantasy. I found a
poor approximation but they pilled to all git out, which really negated
any softness and comfort they had, and they too had to go.
This year I started my search early but my usual go to, Bonds, do not
even have a fleecy tracksuit pant in their range! The best they offer
is a terry loop, and where is the joy in that! There is none. American
Apparel have fleece pants but I find it difficult to part with the kind
of money they want for such an unflattering item.
Guys, I've been despondent. And then, last week it hit me: flannel
pyjamas. Sure I felt a traitor to myself, but once it came to me I could
think of nothing else. I left work on a lunch break and returned with
the most joy bringing pyjamas.
Mate, I'm sorry I scoffed at your love of pyjamas. I know happiness and I know flannel can bring it.