From Sleepwear to Sportswear

A significant contribution to helping us understand better how and why fashion became more casual throughout the twentieth century … Accessible and engaging [and] well organized into sections which could be excerpted as course readings. * Fashion, Style & Popular Culture *Fascinating … a wonderful example of unpicking the social, cultural and historical stories as told through one object. * Costume *[An] absolute BEAUTY of a book … the definitive work to date on this marvellous, marvellous ensemble. * Amber Butchart *D’Agati and Schiff’s insightful and detailed analysis elevates pajamas, at last, to their rightful position in the history of modern fashion. Enriched by a superb collection of illustrations, this book represents bedtime reading at its most sophisticated. * Alison L Goodrum, Norwich University of the Arts, UK *Drawing from a wealth of original material, D’Agati and Schiff provide a long overdue investigation into a transformative garment that embodied modernity in the early twentieth century. The connections between beach pajamas and orientalism, casual dress, and women’s rights are skillfully explored and contextualized in this beautifully illustrated book – an enriching contribution to fashion history. * Sonya Abrego, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA *

Janine D’Agati is the owner of Guermantes Vintage, specializing in 1920s-1940s women’s fashion. She has been interviewed, acknowledged in Fashion Studies Journal, and has contributed to period wardrobe for numerous film, tv, and theater productions. She holds a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Hannah Schiff is a fashion historian with an MA in Costume Studies from New York University. She is published in The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th Century Women Designers (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is a fashion photography producer and has collected and studied vintage clothing for over a decade.