![]() Also, other men - not me - might run into someone on their way to bed.ĮSQ: In New York you might have a neighbor who watches you.ĪS: I run into my neighbor on the landing all the time, so I have to dress really well to get my delivery. Why does a guy need to dress up for bed if no one is going to see it?ĪS: It's like the lining of a suit - you know it's good. I don't know who invited pajama buttons, but they are way too big and awkward.ĮSQ: You're totally right, they're huge. The buttons are shirt buttons, so it's not completely a pajama top.ĪS: Actually they are more comfortable than pajama buttons. I mean if you're really confident you can, but I would recommend mixing it up a little bit - like the top with a pair of your own pants. I know it's not your thing because he's not in your magazine, but he walks around in pajamas.ĪS: Yeah, I think you can definitely wear pajamas as a top, but I wouldn't recommend wearing the entire thing. Or Glenn O'Brien, who is a friend of mine. It's like Nick and Nora, like it was the old days. Media Platforms Design Team Sleepy Jones, at homeĮSQ: What is the difference between a man who wears a boxer and undershirts to bed and a man who wears pajamas?ĪS: I think one is more formal. You're the first to know, we're going to have a men's shirt in the collection next fall that will go with the material of the boxers, so you can actually match and look like an idiot while you sleep. My wife gives them to me always every year. But those are custom-made, it's different.ĪS: I always wear men's shirts and boxers, or pajama shirts and boxers.ĪS: I really do. Although I priced them over that, by the way.ĮSQ: I noticed that, but I didn't want to say anything.ĪS: Yeah, don't say anything. And it's upscale, but it's also not outrageous - like Thom Browne I think is $100 for a pair of boxers.ĮSQ: What do you think is too much money to spend on undergarments or sleepwear?ĮSQ: Whatever Thom's selling it for, that's the threshold.ĪS: You want them to be well made, but $100, $50 probably is too much for a pair of underwear, I would think. Crew pajamas, but no one really focuses on it. Then we'll have to really focus on this idea of doing sleepwear and not-quite-ready-to-wear." I think that helped a lot.ĮSQ: Is there an opening in the marketplace for upscale sleepwear like this?ĪS: I think so, yeah. So my partner said to me, "You know, if we called it Sleepy Jones it will keep you from going off the rails and doing everything under the sun. But my favorite café, Great Jones Cafe, had the rights to Great Jones. It's not a name that would necessarily appeal to everybody.ĪS: Our office is on is Great Jones Street, where our gallery is and a lot of artists like Jean-Michal Basquiat and Rauschenberg had their studios. Let's start with how you chose the name Sleepy Jones. If it goes out I'll have to call you back.Į: I'll assume you're just hanging up on me in a rage because of my probing questions. We spoke to the designer about what not to call women's undergarments, pajamas as outerwear, and the hopelessness of dressing brother David (yes, David Spade).Īndy Spade: My phone is almost out of batteries, but it should be okay. With "not-quite-ready-to-wear" line, Spade adds his signature boyish panache to the fundamentals of underwear and sleepwear. The NYTimes Magazine wrote up a nice piece to herald the launch.ĬoLab provided a mobile responsive implementation of the website design as well as content management training and launch support.Andy Spade, of Jack and Kate fame, has long been dressing up the extra ten percent – things like umbrellas, bags, and wallets. Then click through the site more and order cuter comfortable loungewear for “reading, writing, painting, pondering and playing,” in. While clicking through the pages of Sleepy Jones, if you’re not already in your underwear, you’ll be inspired to shuck your outer layers and be comfortable. They were being their authentic, comfortable selves - and the comfort of being yourself is true style,” the site’s About Us section declares. They weren’t projecting themselves as businessmen or union workers. Picasso churned out masterpieces in little more than shorts and a robe. “Plimpton was known to roam the Paris Review office in boxers. The loungewear company was hatched with the idea of creating comfortable clothes for creative people. The freshly launched Sleepy Jones store is the brainchild of Andy Spade, of Partners in Spade, who helped to create the Kate Spade and Jack Spade lines of accessories for women and men. Recently, our friends at Hugo + Marie returned to us with a new collaboration project to build a custom ecommerce solution for a new clothing label. ![]() Wearing Pajamas To Work Isn't New, But The Sleepy Jones Site Is
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