The first set was an accident. We had a shirt block on the table, a bolt of poplin left over and a week before Christmas. We dropped the shoulder, added ten centimetres through the body and took the cuffs off.
Room to turn over
Most pyjamas are cut close: short in the body, tight at the ankle, a waistband that finds you at three in the morning. Ours are cut so nothing pulls when you turn over, and the trouser is wide enough to sit cross-legged in.
Hang one up and you can see it. The shoulder seam sits a hand’s width down the arm, and the body falls straight from there.
Two people cut and sew every set in Porto, which is why there is one cut and not five.
