When Dr. Denise McDermott, 49, isn’t seeing sufferers for telehealth appointments, there’s likelihood she’s sporting a gown. In actual fact, as quickly as she and her 11-year-old son end the video portion of their work and college days, they each make the change. “It’s develop into our joke throughout the pandemic: We’re the gown household,” mentioned Dr. McDermott, a psychiatrist in Manhattan Seaside, Calif.

Now that many houses have develop into de facto workplaces for the foreseeable future, work wardrobes have adjusted accordingly. “It’s necessary to be aware of what makes you are feeling good,” mentioned Dr. McDermott. “Carrying a gown is sort of like giving your self permission to chill out, however it additionally makes me really feel highly effective and assured.”

The gown is only one of many cozy kinds catching on in isolation; sweatsuits, pajamas and slippers have additionally seen an uptick in gross sales, and leggings have changed structured pants for many individuals. However whereas form-fitting athleisure is meant (if not worn) for bodily exercise, pure leisure put on is an unabashed funding in time without work.

It took a pandemic for Alyssa Lester, 26, to buy her first gown: a classic floral silk quantity from Victoria’s Secret. “At first of quarantine, a time the place I felt very discombobulated, I felt that lastly making my silk gown buy would make every part a tiny bit higher,” she mentioned. “I don’t assume I’ve gone in the future with out sporting it since I purchased it two months in the past.”

“Once I step into slippers and stroll outdoors to test the mail, I really feel like a scorching, assured Higher East Facet housewife,” Ms. Lester, a painter in Brooklyn, added.

Within the 19th century, robes (or dressing robes) had been worn by men and women as a transitional garment. Additionally they gave ladies the liberty to finish family duties and actions unbound by restrictive corsets.

Now celebrities similar to Chrissy Teigen and Andy Cohen are embracing the gown for comparable causes and provoking their followers to do the identical. Retailers have reported an increase in gross sales from their leisure collections, which embrace robes and sleepwear. In response to Jennifer Foyle, international model president for Aerie, gross sales from the model’s “Actual Free Sleep Assortment” greater than doubled between February and April 2020. Equally, a rep for Lands’ End mentioned that gross sales of ladies’s sleepwear are up greater than 75 p.c from final 12 months.

Supportive slippers and home footwear are promoting, too. For instance, Vionic, which makes a speciality of on-trend, podiatrist-approved footwear, has seen a 300 p.c year-over-year improve in slipper gross sales, in keeping with a consultant for the model.

The shoe firm Birdies’s best-selling model was a basic black idler; now it’s a luxe satin slide. “We’ve seen a major shift in model preferences in current weeks, with slide gross sales having elevated by 200 p.c because the starting of April, as soon as our prospects knew they might be residence for the foreseeable future,” Bianca Gates, the co-founder and C.E.O. of Birdies, mentioned.

As a substitute of spending the summer time in overly-air-conditioned workplaces, many will nonetheless be working from residence, the place staying cool might be a precedence. Alexis Herb, 25, a geographic data system technician intern from Boston, lately ordered a silk gown to put on round the home as a result of she needed “one thing that was gentle and cozy — particularly when it’s hotter out.”

Equally, Rachel Bolt, 24, a scholar nurse from Shasta County, Calif., is the proud proprietor of a brand new silk gown from Kim + Ono, which she wears with bedazzled slippers that function Larry David’s face to finish her “quarantine uniform.” Ms. Bolt has endometriosis and mentioned that the gown takes some strain off her stomach. “It’s extremely snug,” she mentioned. “I really feel horny, for lack of a greater time period, and in a bizarre method, I really feel extra put collectively.”

Helen Sharp, 34, who owns a P.R. company in Austin, Texas, already had an in depth gown assortment, however purchased a Cleobella kimono when she realized she could be working from residence. “I really feel elegant in a pleasant gown and needed an additional colourful one to carry my spirits throughout these bizarre instances,” she mentioned. “I additionally really feel like social norms have sort of hilariously flown out the window throughout the keep at residence order, and sporting a gown simply feels extra pure and appropriate to me than anything.”

Males are embracing gown life, too. Matt Sarafa, 22, a designer specializing in gender-neutral style and a scholar at U.C.L.A., sees the gown as a garment that’s not simply flowing however gender-fluid. “Males might be sort of bizarre about sporting issues that don’t match the precise mildew of masculinity, however I really feel like robes are virtually an exception to that as a result of they sort of have a silhouette like a gown, however are nonetheless ‘socially acceptable’ within the very patriarchal society we stay in,” he mentioned. His garment of selection today is a black Versace gown with gold baroque sleeves. “It’s a bit bougie,” he mentioned. “Now that I’m residence 24-7, I’d as nicely be cozy and fly.”

Michael James Nuells, 31, an expert actor and particular occasions supervisor from Toluca Lake, Calif., made an funding in a silk smoking jacket (impressed by Hugh Hefner’s) and a pair of blue velvet slippers to match. “I can’t lie,” he mentioned, “being wrapped in my new jacket and strutting round my home in my new get-up makes me really feel fairly implausible, particularly in these horribly unsure instances.”