Bring Back The Slumber Party

"Nothing, however, makes me feel more connected to my youth than having a sleepover at a friend’s place." We couldn't agree more - except borrowing "each other’s old, ratty college shirts." You've upgraded your house, car, partner, beauty routine and wardrobe. Don't stop at sleepwear - upgrade to Midnighties! 

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"Now, it’s not like my social calendar is chock-full of slumber parties. But I’m not the only one feeling the nostalgia. TikToks about adult slumber parties are going viral. In one video, three women wear matching pink, feather-trimmed pajamas while making heart-shaped pizzas, arranging bouquets, jumping on a bed, and applying face masks. “This is what I need honestly,” one commenter wrote. Another clip has a voiceover that says, “Can we please normalize adult sleepovers?”

After seeing adult slumber parties all over my FYP, I went ahead and took the initiative. I texted my friend Sarah, who has loved me through every bad ex and bad haircut since 2008. “We need to have a sleepover,” I wrote. “Like old times.”

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Slumber parties are a way to fight that by spending quality time together, says Jess, 30. She laughs when I tell her that these gatherings are in — because for her Philadelphia-based friend group, they were never really out.

Despite being at different stages in life — some are renting in cities, others have bought homes in suburbia, a few have kids — they still have slumber parties, just like they did in fifth grade.

Their sleepovers are proof of that old adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same. “We still stay up the whole night talking — except, you know, now we have partners and businesses and stuff,” she says. They play Pride and Prejudice and She’s the Man and swoon over Channing Tatum circa 2006. “Except now,” she says, “there are bottles of wine to be had.”

For Ivana, 30, slumber parties are a bit more impromptu. “They usually start by me being like, ‘Hey! Don’t call an Uber! Stay with me,” she says. They’re a cheaper alternative to continuing a night’s fun, and sidestep the need to play DD or call a car.

She and her friends will borrow each other’s skin care products and old, ratty college shirts. “It’s intimate, you know?” she says of letting someone stay in your space.

The location of the sleepover rotates between the five core friends’ homes, and they try to do it every couple of weeks. It works because they prioritize their all-night hangouts in their living rooms, she says, and those with kids either host after bedtime or have their co-parent handle the nighttime routine solo.

Partners are not allowed. “I’ll jokingly tell my girlfriend, ‘Guess you’ll have to make other plans for the night!’” says Jess, who hosts her friends on air mattresses and couches instead of in her bedroom to keep the hangouts sacred. They take turns cooking for one another, swapping book recs, and feeling like preteens again.

“Slumber parties prove that you don’t have to lose the parts of being a child just because you’re getting older,” Jess says. Aging doesn’t mean you have to grow up.

Read the full article: https://www.bustle.com/life/adult-slumber-parties-friends-sleepovers