“You heading to bed, love?” So goes the internal-scream-inducing Dad joke, guaranteed to leave all women who have worn their sophisticated silk separates with stilettos furious. Firstly, please sod off sir. Secondly, it might have taken its sweet time, but the moment has finally arrived for men to join the pyjama party, too. A surprise champion garment of out-out dressing has risen up this summer, and yes, we had been sleeping on it: the dressing gown.
Bear with me. I am not talking about the white towelling types you once nicked from Soho House. Instead, the recent wave of evening-appropriate robes have counted everything from the ornate and embroidered, to the brown chequered silk styles straight from Brideshead Revisited, through to washes of colour. So whether you consider yourself a black-tie gent or more of a raver, neither is a valid excuse not to try this post shower look for size.
