1.   Consider investing in a good evening coat in basic white, cream or black, and remember you can wear it over evening pajamas as well as gowns.

2.   Evening pajamas?

3.   Second, decide which events call for cocktail clothes, which are formal and which are more casual, when evening pajamas might suffice.

4.   Beautiful black lace-edged silk evening pajamas were topped by a handsome painted shantung coat in hot pink, black and orange.