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Livingetc
Olivia Wolfe

I Changed This One Tiny Thing About My Bedding, and Now My Sleep Isn't So Disrupted by 'Slipping' Bed Sheets

Image of a wooden, classic bedframe, with light gray and dusty pink bedding. The room is a traditional style and there are two marble side tables on either side of the bed with sconce lighting above them.

Nothing is better than climbing into a bed at the end of the day when the sheets are clean, crispy, and curated to your preferences. But nothing is worse than waking up in the morning to find they've all come loose and are a gathered mess beneath you. What went wrong? Well, your fitted sheet probably isn't deep enough.

Slipping fitted sheets is one of the biggest bedding problems that will get in the way of your beauty sleep. This annoyance can happen for a variety of reasons — stretched elastic and slippery materials are common culprits. However, as someone who has tested endless mattresses and types of bedding over the years, Livingetc's bedding expert, Luke Aurther Wells, says, "The answer is more likely down to the size of your mattress versus the size of your fitted sheet."

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