How to Be Comfortable While Wearing an Adult Blanket Sleeper in Summertime (As an Adult Wearer)

Wearing blanket sleepers in the winter months may be normal to see from some adults. But when the weather gets hot, some adults may not feel like blanket sleepers are the way to go. Most will remove their sleeper and use something else. But instead of pulling it off entirely from your body, there are some other options you can try to keep from taking it off and still in turn can keep you cooler. This article can tell you those steps.

Steps

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   Modify your wardrobe on your blanket sleeper for summertime temperatures. With the exception being your normal underwear, consider wearing only your sleeper during these months and nothing else.
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   Unzip your blanket sleeper anytime you are wearing it. The cooler air can help keep your body slightly closer to normal air-temperature nearby. As long as the air has a large amount of surface area to cover, this can help immensely.
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   Consider using your air conditioner in the room you will be wearing your blanket sleeper in. Let the cooling system focus on that room first, before the cooling must occur in any other part of the house. Use other cooling methods for kids rooms, unless the cooling is a whole-house air conditioner.
   • Make sure the thermostat on the air conditioner is down to a temperature that is as low as the thermostat can possibly go, to ensure the cold air will be chilly enough to keep you at normal room-temperatures.
   • Consider closing off any doors that you may not be using at the current time. Even if you are in the room with the air conditioner, make sure all other doors that enclose the room can be closed most of the way or all the way.
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   Consider wearing lightweight cotton, ankle-high socks as opposed to any other style/any other full-length sock. These smaller sized socks can help wick away moisture from your feet. If you wear a sock that's any higher, the sock would hold in more heat, and thereby help your feet sweat which can travel to your brain and cause the signals of "feet getting too hot" to become major signs. And if the blanket sleeper has Jiffy Grip-styled skidproof-bottoms, the socks can hold back the remainder of the moisture that will for sure accumulate at the bottom of the feet when you walk or do some activity that requires exertion on the feet.
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   Don't wear your blanket sleeper's hood, if the garment contains one. Most of your body's heat might be lost through the head (or so we people have been lead by scientists to believe)^[1], so why would you want to add more latent heat in the process, when you in turn want to reverse that and loose some heat?
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   Consider wearing a cotton t-shirt under your sleeper, to soak up some of the sweat from your body. Again, cotton can help wick away moisture, and even if you're not used to wearing no shirts to bed, cotton can help become a intermediate mediator over not wearing an undershirt at all while still keeping you cool.
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   Sleep on top of the sheets and blankets of your bed when you wear a blanket sleeper during the night when your body is "stable" from cooling and warming trends.
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Tips

• Following the steps in this article, can be followed during any part of the day. It doesn't just have to be nighttime, when you wear them.
• Don't tell or show your kids that you are unzipping them. They'll leave it up to themselves when you least want them to, to unzip their own. This may even mean that they may try it months down the line (in Winter), when keeping it zipped up is the best and only process to observe.
• Make sure the sleeper is of a bigger size, when you choose to buy ones for yourself or others.
• Plan on the wearer having to take a few extra showers, as wearing a blanket sleeper can cause more heat to build up, and blanket sleepers tend to hold more heat onto the blanket sleeper/garment itself, entrapping the wearer of extra warmth they shouldn't have to contend with.
• Place your blanket sleeper near a cooling source at least one hour prior to having to wear it at night. Not only will it keep it cool for wearable temperatures immediately, but it will also wick a little more moisture away from the garment just before re-wearing it.
• Consider purchasing (if available in your size) a blanket sleeper that zips down all the way to your ankles, or ones that don't involve using a zipper at all (but that could be using snaps, buttons or Velcro or some other closing method), as these closings could contain cooler openings, allowing for some heat to escape without having to fully unzip the garment, or, in the case of blanket sleepers that zip to the ankle, to help even more heat escape on top of the heat that escapes through the area between the top half of the body.
• If you ever do get chilly, choose to use as your "blanket" a light-weight unfitted bed sheet with nothing else. It'll keep you a bit warmer while still allowing you to keep a bit cooler than what your sleeper will give you.