MOD - I’m clarifying that after I work out, I shower and change into outfits that don’t look appreciably different!!
Alh, I do love that Accidental Icon blog you pointed to some time ago (the professor at Fordham). Not my aesthetic, but really cool to look at.
I think you should rock the caftan outside of the house, @alh. We were in Morocco awhile back and men and women both wear their version of caftans called djellabas. They looked incredibly comfortable and many of them were very pretty. And they cooked in them!
PG: I especially love how she is promoting really small design houses. Sometimes I watch the designer websites she links and they sell right out!
doschicos: I have a flowing, head to toe, “out of the house” wardrobe. Yesterday a young man told me he liked my outfit and he’d never seen anything like it before. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
PSA: watch your sleeves if you cook in flowing garments. Someone I know did catch herself on fire. It turned out okay but she had some serious burns.
bye bye for now.
Do you have to iron those caftans, alh? That would disqualify them as loungewear for me.
I love the idea and look of them but I can’t figure out how it would work in practice.
Yoga pants and camisoles/ tanks / fitted t-shirts for me. Soft cotton ones without a lot of spandex. With a giant fluffy terry cloth robe if it is cold. Or a long soft pull-on maxi-ish jersey skirt and t-shirt. Stuff that can go in washer and dryer and that looks decent without ironing and that doesn’t feel synthetic against my skin.
Yoga pants & tee in summer. In winter I often get into my fleece lounging jams even if it’s the middle of the afternoon.
My favorite image of loungewear came from a New York Times article 8 or 9 years ago in which one of Obama’s old girlfriends from his mid-20s was interviewed about him. She remembered fondly that he would sit at the kitchen table and do the New York Times crossword puzzle in a sarong.
My second-favorite image of fantasy loungewear was an article in Vogue a few years ago about Keith Richards and Patti Hansen’s family hanging out in the Carribean. This is how I wish loungewear looked in my family:
http://www.vogue.com/slideshow/761302/anything-goes-keith-richards-and-patti-hansen-photos/#1
^^Oooh, that’s so carefully styled. There’s no way they look like that normally. There are no cigarette burns in Keith’s shirt, for instance. Vogue shoots are never “oh, let’s pull out whatever you have in your closet and we’ll shoot that!” 
I like a dude in sarong, though. Maybe I can get my husband to wear one when he retires.
Regarding Jobs and his style, I doubt many folks would have cared or seen it as fashion if it wasn’t for who he was. You can’t separate the man from the look or the look from the man.
As that article opened, lululemons and tank top, yep, that’s my uniform
alh, we are all awaiting some links to the caftans you like!
Alh, take a pic, crop your head (or don’t!) and make it your profile pic!
I should definitely get dh to go back to wearing a sarong. It’s hanging around here somewhere, dating back to his Indonesia days.
Too many of my long African dresses that we used to wear for lounging around, I can’t cook in because they have those annoying bell sleeves. I’d wear them a lot more if the sleeves were a different shape. In fact I had a sweater a few years ago where I actually got out my sewing machine and got rid of the sleeves after they ended up in the cooking one too many times.
I’m so boring. Leggings, t shirt of some kind, fleece jacket, winter. Summer, shorts and t shirt.
H never changes his clothes, what he wears to work, he wears until he goes to bed. In the summer, if he plays golf after work, he will put on a pair of shorts but that is the only time he will change.
My stuff matches, athletic clothes in the winter, cotton shorts and tee in the summer. Never a sports bra to lounge, too uncomfortable.
I wear business casual to work and wear it right up until I shower before bed. It’s all easy care fabrics so I don’t have to worry about ruining anything or having a sky high dry cleaning bill.
" dry cleaning bill" What’s that? 
Even when I was working, towards the end I was always looking for items I didn’t have to dry clean.
I don’t work. But when I did, it totally depended on what I was doing after I got home…which sometimes wasn’t until after 7. If I was going out, I would switch to jeans and a pullover shirt. If I was not going anywhere, I would just put my PJs on and be comfy.
My buddy wanted to know why I was so late getting to town today. I didn’t reveal it was because I was trying to convert folks on a college message board to caftans for after work lounge wear.
somemom: so sorry, I can’t post links. My caftans are very few and fairly old. I picked them up here and there. One came from a museum gift shop more than a decade ago. One I picked up in a market someplace while traveling.
nottelling: I do not iron. not ever. I only wear natural fabrics and I wash everything (except wool) in the machine, cold water/ gentle cycle. Then I spin a few minutes in the dryer to get the worst wrinkles out. Then I hang them up still damp and warm to dry. It works for me.
dry cleaning: I take woolens to the dry cleaner once a year and have them cleaned and stored over the summer because our house is very buggy and we sometimes get moths. Some people I know wash woolens. I am not that brave.
PG: ha! you said that before. YOU post a photo! 
There’s nothing remotely interesting about what *I wear :/)