Another daft idea

[pozorvlak]

Sleeping bags with sleeves, allowing for the following use cases:

1. Cuddling in tents. Because I'm soppy like that.
2. Sitting around in, say, a fscking cold flat in winter.
3. Camping in cold situations, where you want to do your sleeping bag all the way up but don't want to risk being unable to unzip yourself later.

The sleeves should terminate in mittens, for Safety. To support use case 2, the mittens should perhaps be the type where the end can be folded back to reveal the wearer's fingers.

There's prior art: several brands of blankets-with-sleeves are commercially available.

Comments

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

One of my sleeping bags is (I think) 17 years old, so it may well be pre-standardisation. However, I haven't actually tried: I'll do so this evening.

The Blacks "buy one get one half-price" sale is calling to me...

[michaelp-j (from livejournal.com)]

Blacks also used to sell "sleeping bag expanders" for certain brands of sleeping bag: this is a piece of fabric about 15cm wide with zips on both sides, which enlarges a one-person bag to make it big enough for two people to be cozy in. The giant double sleeping bags (a la Coleman) are indeed rather drafty.

Double bivvy bags are virtually impossible to buy, but fortunately a lot of single ones are generous enough to get two people into.