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Sat 08 Aug 2010So, what are pyjama girls really like?
They have been caricatured much in the media in the recent past, but a new documentary film looks sympathetically at the lives of working-class girls
THE SENSITIVE viewer could be forgiven for approaching Maya Derrington’s Pyjama Girlswith caution. Over the last few years, the wearing of pyjamas outside the house has, for too many mainstream media outlets, become synonymous with social exclusion and loss of self-respect. To listen to the middle-class gripers on the radio, you’d think the donning of terry cotton nightwear is akin to horse theft or benefit fraud.
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