Come as you are, but make an effort." This message delivered to the nominees of the 72nd Emmy Awards was actually about their dress code. And they did live up to it with pyjamas. While Rachel Brosnahan slipped into a custom-made purple and navy night suit with husband Jason Ralph, Jameela Jamil oozed comfort sporting a sequinned dressing gown paired with white PJs.

With its etymological origins in Persian, the word "pyjama" was adopted into the English language and was introduced to Britain in the 17th century. However, it became a fashion statement much later, in the late 1920s. "While the nightdress tended to preserve its traditional qualities, the pyjamas, still somewhat of a novelty, encouraged many experimental forms," notes Cecil Willett Cunnington in The History of Underclothes.