Is there anywhere to get nightgowns with no flame retardants?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How insensitive. You should be calling them non-flame-mentallydisabledants.

Wow, you're a jerk.

Not the PP, but why are you calling her a jerk?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How insensitive. You should be calling them non-flame-mentallydisabledants.

Really? You're that bored?

Oh, come on. Not the PP, but that was funny.

Agree with the other PP about revisiting the regulations!

OP here. My daughter is mentally disabled and it is really not funny at all. Thanks to the posters with the helpful suggestions.

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Try Powell Craft. They have some American vendors.
http://www.shutterbugsboutique.com/clementine-girls-nightgown-by-powell-craft.html

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Why can't you just buy comfy clothes wear to sleep? I get the most comfy material dresses I can find like kicky pants and she wears that to sleep I think it's easier to put on then a 2 piece pj set as she's only 15m my son wears non pjs but really comfy clothes to bed as well. I like wearing something not skin tight snug to bed personally

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How insensitive. You should be calling them non-flame-mentallydisabledants.

Really? You're that bored?

Oh, come on. Not the PP, but that was funny.

Agree with the other PP about revisiting the regulations!

OP here. My daughter is mentally disabled and it is really not funny at all. Thanks to the posters with the helpful suggestions.

Not 14:04, but I don't quite get why that post is so offensive. FTR, I have a mentally disabled cousin, so I'm not completely insensitive. I think it was just a joke.

Anyway, OP, I know you said nightgowns, but we get great cotton PJs from Carter's. They sell them at the Carter's stores, and at JCP. You can get them for about $10, and they are super soft cotton. Hold up well in the wash.

If you're willing to get used ones, I bet you could find some used cotton nightgowns on Craigslist or at garage sales/thrift stores, from kids who had them before the new regulations set in.

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Anonymous wrote:You know, they really need to revisit this regulation.

It was put in place during the 70s. Many, many houses had smokers in the family. Many of them smoked in bed. All of them smoked around children, had lighters laying around, and ashtrays sitting out with lit cigarettes just burning away in them.

They didn't have the understanding we have now about carcinogens and the dangers of many of these chemicals.

Just with the differences in lifestyles, this regulation is one that I think has outlived its usefulness.

They say the chemicals used are okay for kids, but they used to say that about asbestos too...

I knew the woman who pushed for, and got this law passed, and it had nothing to do with smoking. When she was a girl she had gone down into the basement and the bottom of her nightgown touched the pilot light on the furnace. In no time it had gone up in flames and she had third degree burns over a good part of her body. Including her face.

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Well, nowadays, I doubt anybody has a furnace with an exposed pilot light. When I grew up, our stove had exposed pilot lights, but I haven't seen one of those in ages.

So I think the point that these laws need to be revisited is a good one, and you are making it by your own post.

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I would rather risk the burning that likely won't happen, vs the chemical exposure that we know will happen.

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Try Lanz of Salzburg. That's what I wore as a girl. Not sure if they are treated or not....

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I think anything labeled as sleepwear for children is full of chemicals. The Hanna PJs are labeled as long johns to work around the requirements.

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I buy my daughter's nightgowns at Nordstrom and Mini Boden.

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Legally, children's sleepwear must be snug fitting or flame resistant.

The Lanz of Salzburg girls' gowns are now polyester (Vermont Country Store carries them).

Hanna Andersson doesn't currently have any nightgowns on the site. They would have to be flame-resistant, but possibly use a less toxic substance to achieve that?

Nothing says it has to be a true nightgown, of course. Oversized t-shirt, jersey dress, all work.

My DD has taken to putting a tutu on over her (cotton) PJs. Maybe that would satisfy your DD's desire for a nightgown?

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Nothing says it has to be a true nightgown, of course. Oversized t-shirt, jersey dress, all work.

My DD has taken to putting a tutu on over her (cotton) PJs. Maybe that would satisfy your DD's desire for a nightgown?

Very cute!

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I suggested Hanna for nightgowns since they had a ton in the fall/winter catalogues.

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Anonymous wrote:I think anything labeled as sleepwear for children is full of chemicals. The Hanna PJs are labeled as long johns to work around the requirements.

yes if you want to avoid chemicals it either is not labelled sleepwear or it's labelled as "NOT FLAME resistant, wear snug fitting". We use Carter's and Old Navy "Not flame resistant" snug fitting PJs and Hanna Andersen long johns. No nightgowns!