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Vintage Dancer | 1950s Fashion | 1950s Men’s Pajamas and Loungewear

1950s Men’s Pajamas and Loungewear

1950s Fashion History

7 Dec 2021

In the 1950s, men’s sleepwear and loungewear become synonymous. Men’s sleeping pajama shirts could be tucked into pajama pants and voila! Now it’s loungewear. Tying a pajama shirt with a sash belt was another way to make sleepwear into loungewear.

While stripes had been classic patterns for a few decades, the 1950s went in all directions, adding two-tone combos, paisley, novelty prints, medallions, atomic graphics, checks, and plaid to the mix. Men’s pajamas were as diverse as men’s casual sportwear shirts.

These images highlight the popular styles of men’s 1950s sleepwear and loungewear.

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Article Outline

  • The Classic Pajama
  • The Lounge-Jama
  • The Knit Pajama
  • Men’s 1950s Slippers

The Classic Pajama

Two piece pajamas with notch collars, sport collars, mandarin collars, peak collars and more. All kinds of prints and patterns, solids and stripes.  Robes coordinated, but didn’t match patterns.

1951 men's pajamas 1950s
1951 Men’s Pajamas
men's pajamas 1950s
1952 Men’s Pajamas

1954 men's pajamas 1950s
1954 Men’s Pajamas
1955 men's pajamas 1950s
1955 Men’s Pajamas

1957 men's pajamas 1950s
1957 Men’s Pajamas
1950s 1957 mens pajama and robe
1957 Pajama and Robe

The Lounge-Jama

Pajama tops (print) paired with plain colored pajama bottoms become lounge-jamas.  Tops looked more like sport shirts with bigger collars and bigger, bolder, prints.

Pajama bottoms looked more like dress trousers with a tab-over waistband, leg pleat, and either straight cuff hem or elastic rib cuff.

1951 sleep pajamas ready for lounging

1951 Sleep Pajamas Ready for Lounging

1952 mens lounge or sleepwear

1952 Lounge or Sleepwear

1952men's summer pajamas and loungewear

1952 Summer Pajamas and Loungewear

1956 men's pajamas 1950s

1956 Men’s Pajamas

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The Knit Pajama

The knit pajamas (rib knit shirt) with woven cotton bottoms began in the 1930s. The 1950s added knit bottoms with rib knit cuffs, waistbands, and collars, renaming them ski-jamas for their resemblance to classic men’s ski suits.

The heavy rib knit sweatsuit was also sold as men’s winter pajamas and loungewear.

1953 striped knit shirt, cotton pant pajamas
1953 Striped Knit Shirt, Cotton Pant Pajamas
Ski-Pajams 1950s mens sleepwear loungewear sweatsuits
Ski-Pajamas

1957 ski-jamas mens sleewpear winter knit
1957 Ski-Jamas
1952 sweatsuit as pajamas
1952 Sweatsuit as Pajamas

The matching family pajama trend took off in the late 1950s and Dad was a ready participant. Read more in this article.

 

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1958 matching family pajamas

1958 Matching Family Pajamas

1959 matching vintage family pajamas

1959 Family Pajamas

Men’s 1950s Slippers

Read about and shop men’s vintage style slippers here.

1950s mens house slippers

1955 Men’s House Slippers

1955 men's slippers

1955 Men’s Slippers

1958 slippers mens loafers smoking shoes

1958 Slippers

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