Ten pyjama shirts good enough to wear out of the bedroom and onto the street

Pyjamas appeared on the Prada runway for both men and women this season, part of co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ ongoing exploration of wardrobe archetypes. In true idiosyncratic style, on the runway, pyjama sets were worn with cowboy boots – as if on a late-night corner shop run – while in the women’s show, night shirts were twisted up into impromptu skirts.

This striped Bottega Veneta pyjama shirt comes as part of a truly luxurious travel set, encased in its own carry bag and adorned with a label reminiscent of those used when the house was founded in 1966 in Vincenza, Italy. Indeed, the pyjamas are crafted from mulberry silk in Bottega Veneta’s home country – much like their handbags, which are a longstanding symbol of Italian handcraft.

Though technically designed to be worn in bed – the Danish label is best known for its home textiles – a walk around Copenhagen city centre will show that Tekla’s pyjamas easily translate to the street. These piped-edge sateen pyjamas are the newest addition to the range, balancing a sense of classicism with Scandinavian minimalism – much like the architecture of Tekla’s home city.

Earlier this year, Gucci celebrated the 50th anniversary of its interlocking double-G monogram, a longtime emblem of the Italian house created by Aldo Gucci in honour of his father Guccio Gucci. Here, it adorns a pyjama shirt in silk-satin jacquard, capturing Gucci’s distinct brand of louche Italian elegance.

Hay has long proved adept at creating furnishings which marry functionality with bold, candy-like colours and a sense of play. Its this sensibility that they bring to a range of simple cotton pyjamas in a range of appealing hues – from pastel pinks, blues and yellows to classic emerald green and navy.

Thanks to its roomy proportions, the pyjama shirt is the perfect garment to borrow from your significant other. This men’s shirt from Dolce & Gabbana – a longtime proponent of pyjama dressing – is cut from piped-edge silk and adorned with an embroidered ‘DG’ on the pocket.

This was the pyjama shirt which first put Tekla on the map – an exercise in simplicity that puts quality first (each one is constructed from 122 GSM cotton poplin and finished with mother-of-pearl buttons). It’s now available in a multitude of hues. Our favourite? This unusual shade of rich coffee brown.

Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran have long placed the idea of effortlessness at the heart of their Paris-based label – their collections are never overwrought, or over-complicated. Case in point: this breezy riff on the pyjama shirt, an everyday staple cut from striped cotton with plenty of room to breathe.

Miuccia Prada has long revelled in the banal, imbuing the archetypal and the clichéd with new desirability – from tennis skirts and corporate attire, even the humble apron (the latter provided the basis of her most recent S/S 2026 collection for Miu Miu). This boxy riff on the classic pyjama shirt comes in striped cotton poplin, and is adorned with the Italian house’s signature logo tab.

Best known for its enveloping duvet covers and blankets, Stockholm-based label Magniberg offers an equally appealing range of pyjamas in bold shades not usually associated with sleepwear. Like this piped-edge ‘Dolce Shirt’ in vivid petunia red, which founders Bengt Thornefors and Nina Norgren say is for ‘bar-to-bed or bed-to-bar’ – other shades include Italian blue and a chocolate box ‘nocciola’ beige.