I like the freedom I get with a T-shirt - pyjamas are a bit too constricting for me.'Left (and cover): Hillary Rosner, journalist, wears white cotton nightshirt, pounds 34.50, Muji, 26 Gt Marlborough St, London W1 and branches (inquiries: 0171-494 1197). I've never seen my husband in pyjamas, but I imagine he'd look cute.' Vern Ford, graphic designer, wears blue satin striped cotton pyjamas, pounds 89, Derek Rose from Harrods, Knightsbridge, London SW1, inquiries: 0171- 434 3482. `I wear pyjama bottoms during the winter when it's cold in our house. Wearing a matching set like this makes me feel like I'm in a prison uniform.'Above: Wendy Howard, mother, wears white linen pyjamas, pounds 185, Margaret Howell, 29 Beauchamp Place, London SW3, tel: 0171-584 2462 `I normally just wear old T-shirts to bed They're as comfortable as a second skin. `I don't normally wear pyjamas to bed, but I do wear them lounging around the house to stay warm and be snuggly I sleep in a T-shirt. Susan Yacavone, computer trainer, wears white cotton self-striped pyjamas, pounds 56.50, Bonsoir, Harrods, Knightsbridge, London SW1 and Selfridges, Oxford St, W1, inquiries: 0171-734 3742.

Our photographer went to New York and persuaded various people on the street to model a range of styles during one of the coldest winters on record. But the occasional flavoured brand, such as Boaters, is now starting to sneak on to supermarket shelves, a sign of how much more interested in real coffee and how much more adventurous the British public is becoming Good news for the Seattle Coffee Company.. Trends have dictated that we wear all sorts of things in bed: maribou trim teddies, yukky yoked flouncy nightdresses or stupid oversized T-shirts with 3-D elephant's ears But nothing beats a classic pair of pyjamas. They cost me pounds 25, and 12 years later I still have them (though they're not as big on me as they once were). At the end of the first week's work I ever did, I took home pounds 60.17. I had always wanted my own pair of men's pyjamas (I think this stemmed from the fact that as a small thing, I used to insist on wearing my father's pyjamas when he went away because they smelt of him) and so I trotted off to Selfridges and bought a pair of red flannel Derek Rose jim-jams in the largest size I could buy. Flavours still make up a tiny part of the British real coffee market (and in any case, 88 per cent still prefer instant).

It's made by adding oils to the beans as they roast, or by mixing in substances like dusted cocoa and chopped vanilla to freshly ground coffee. The result is a coffee with a distinctive smell, although compared to coffees flavoured with syrups the taste is muted. To others, syrups are just the latest example of a historical trend. "Flavoured coffee goes back to the Turkish, Viennese and French, who flavoured their drinks with, respectively, cardamom, figs and chicory. Under English law those are still the only things that you're allowed to sell mixed in with ground coffee beans," says Will Hobhouse, managing director of Whittard of Chelsea.In defiance of this archaic legislation, Whittard has sold flavoured ground coffee since 1989, and now boasts 12 varieties. "Speaking personally, I feel these `cocktails' are a completely different drink," says Nigel Passingham of the Real Coffee Association.