![]() ![]() The word pajama (as pai jamahs, Paee-jams and variants) is recorded in English use in the first half of the nineteenth century. Pajamas had been introduced to England as "lounging attire" as early as the seventeenth century, then known as mogul's breeches ( Beaumont and Fletcher) but they soon fell out of fashion. The worldwide use of pajamas (the word and the clothing) outside the subcontinent is the result of adoption by British colonists in India in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the British influence on the wider Western world during the Victorian era. ![]() History US government advert during World War II, female nightwear Urdu pāy-jāma, pā-jāma and its etymon Persian pāy-jāma, pā-jāma, singular noun < Persian pāy, pā foot, leg + jāma clothing, garment (see jama n.1) + English -s, plural ending, after drawers. They originated in the Indian subcontinent and were adopted in the Western world as nightwear.Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word pajama is a borrowing via Urdu from Persian. Pajamas are soft garments derived from the Indian and Persian bottom-wear, the pyjamas. Pajamas ( US) or pyjamas ( Commonwealth) ( / p ə ˈ dʒ ɑː m ə z, p ɪ-, - ˈ dʒ æ-/), sometimes colloquially shortened to PJs, jammies, jim-jams, or in South Asia night suits, are several related types of clothing worn as nightwear or while lounging. For other uses, see Pajamas (disambiguation).Ī Muslim girl in India wearing pajamas and kurti (lithograph from Emily Eden's Portraits of the Princes and People of India, 1844) Two-piece men's pajamas ![]()
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