Okay, you know how we put pillows in pillowcases, so that when it’s time to wash the bed linens you don’t have to wash and more to the point dry the pillow stuffing?
Take that same concept and apply it to your comforter or bedspread.
A duvet is a thick blanket that’s designed to come apart so you can wash or exchange the outer layer without having to wash the fluffy insulation. Another feature is that you can own multiple covers and one actual blanket, so if you want to change up your colors you can just swap out the cover. One-piece comforters don’t fold up that compactly for storage, but empty duvet covers do.
Thanks for the explanation! TBH it sounds like something that I would hate and find a bunch of extra work, but I can see why other people would like it and find it useful.
Honestly in canada I’ve never heard of them either lol. Typically my familly have always used 1-2 thin bedsheets, then what we call a “catalogne”, which I can’t seem to be able to translate. It’s basically a hand tressed bedsheet that’s impossible to wash without it breaking apart. Then some cover that’s usually pretty thin, just for the looks I suppose. If you’re cold, you just add layers. Once a season, you take that catalogne and the top sheet and soak them in water, then let them dry outside.
Or you can do like my sister and not give a fuck about that. She just sleeps under 10+ loose blankets and a furnace of a dog.
I’ve grown up with these, I think they’re the standard blanket in Germany. We also have a thin inner for summer and a thick goose down inner for winter. And a whole bunch of covers, so you can just throw one in the wash and put the next one on.
Actually now that I think about it we always buy pillow case+duvet cover as a matching set, idk if you can even get then separately lol
I’m from Québec and we/some put thick bed covers like comforters on top of another set of thin sheets. I grew up with the principle of just removing a layer if it was hot in summer, sometimes removing the comforter entirely, and putting it back in winter. I have never used a duvet before visiting Europe. It’s only when I slept in hotels in Germany that I met a duvet for the first time of my life. Most of them only have a single sheet, a duvet and a giant deflated pillow. And I must admit that I hated it. So much so that I went to Decathlon to buy a liner and an inflatable pillow because I couldn’t sleep with the duvet nor the folded pillow.
It’s stuff like this that makes me both relieved and slightly ashamed that I’m in my 30s and still don’t know quite what a duvet is.
Okay, you know how we put pillows in pillowcases, so that when it’s time to wash the bed linens you don’t have to wash and more to the point dry the pillow stuffing?
Take that same concept and apply it to your comforter or bedspread.
A duvet is a thick blanket that’s designed to come apart so you can wash or exchange the outer layer without having to wash the fluffy insulation. Another feature is that you can own multiple covers and one actual blanket, so if you want to change up your colors you can just swap out the cover. One-piece comforters don’t fold up that compactly for storage, but empty duvet covers do.
Thanks for the explanation! TBH it sounds like something that I would hate and find a bunch of extra work, but I can see why other people would like it and find it useful.
If your not from a cold weather climate you probably also don’t have a down douve that can only be dry-cleaned.
Where I’m from we generally sleep with the window open to some degree all year round. So in the winter the bedroom gets pretty cold sometimes.
Honestly in canada I’ve never heard of them either lol. Typically my familly have always used 1-2 thin bedsheets, then what we call a “catalogne”, which I can’t seem to be able to translate. It’s basically a hand tressed bedsheet that’s impossible to wash without it breaking apart. Then some cover that’s usually pretty thin, just for the looks I suppose. If you’re cold, you just add layers. Once a season, you take that catalogne and the top sheet and soak them in water, then let them dry outside.
Or you can do like my sister and not give a fuck about that. She just sleeps under 10+ loose blankets and a furnace of a dog.
I’ve grown up with these, I think they’re the standard blanket in Germany. We also have a thin inner for summer and a thick goose down inner for winter. And a whole bunch of covers, so you can just throw one in the wash and put the next one on.
Actually now that I think about it we always buy pillow case+duvet cover as a matching set, idk if you can even get then separately lol
I’m from Québec and we/some put thick bed covers like comforters on top of another set of thin sheets. I grew up with the principle of just removing a layer if it was hot in summer, sometimes removing the comforter entirely, and putting it back in winter. I have never used a duvet before visiting Europe. It’s only when I slept in hotels in Germany that I met a duvet for the first time of my life. Most of them only have a single sheet, a duvet and a giant deflated pillow. And I must admit that I hated it. So much so that I went to Decathlon to buy a liner and an inflatable pillow because I couldn’t sleep with the duvet nor the folded pillow.
If it’s any solace to you, I hate those pillows too, and my whole family has never had them. Idk what’s up with hotels of all places using those
They’re not typical in the United States; one-piece comforters are more typical.
Depends on the area I guess. I see more duvets than one-piece comforters here in the PNW.