16th April Pyjama Day or Wear Your Pyjamas to Work Day

Wear Your Pyjamas to Work Day is so apt for this time when many are working from home anyway. As I've marked online school work I have seen some fantastic pyjamas, Cat in the Hat ones, skeleton ones, onesies with animal fur and ears... Pyjama Day is a day when children wear their pyjamas to school and celebrate slothliness.

They certainly were the cat's pyjamas! What does that idiom mean? Well it is a terrific thing, something worth seeing or having, something highly enjoyable, desirable, or impressive, especially in a fancy or elaborate way. 

'Pyjamas'  is an unusual word and spelled in an unusual way, so I often wondered where the word originated. Now I know pyjamas can be traced back to Persia hundreds of years ago. Then during the 17th Century, British colonials adopted this clothing in India and then brought it back to England. Eventually pyjamas went to the United States, but as they are much more actively involved in spelling reform, they became 'pajamas'.

I won't be doing a display in the library, but I was surprised how many books were in our library about pyjamas. See here. Three of the most popular titles are       displayed here.

When staying home with friends is an option again there will be sleepovers and pyjama parties, but for now only with your siblings!