You know when you buy say, a 40 tog duvet, what does tog mean?

Using google for more than 10 seconds enabled me to find the answer.

A 'tog' is a unit of thermal resistance, used for measuring the warmth of a duvet. The higher the tog rating, the warmer the duvet.

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No biggie

http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lw239

In this episode pf the big Bang Theory that I just saw Leonard states that he doesn't even know what a duvet is. Is this possible? I assumed that a duvet was universal thing. Anyone not know what a duvet is?

I do.

But duvet know it's Christmas?

http://data.tumblr.com/v8Y1VvbEma2efk3vWvg3NmQm_400.gif

(xxpost) I think it's a reference to Fight Club (I mean the line from the show, not duvets in general)

don't they call duvets comforters in the US?

Not anymore, cuz we all wanna be all fancy and whatnot

I mean, I don't know -- maybe there's some distinction being made between items that have separate covers and items that don't -- but I grew up with everything being a "comforter," and then at some point it was all "ooo, it's not a comforter, it's a duvet," sort of the same way people stopped making juice from concentrate and started buying Tropicana.

Rly? I always thot comforters were those things with a non-removeable patterned cover. They're okay for kids cos they're cheap and can have, like, superheros on them an' stuff and you don't care if the kids make forts out of them and beat them to shit and then outgrown the superhero character.

Duvets, there's no point in unless they're down-stuffed. Which makes them more of a grown-up thing.

However I did once see, in a catalog, and I know I've said this before but it's endless entertaining to me, the same company advertising a "comforter", a "comforter cover", and a few pages later, a "comforter cover stuffer".

Maybe after that there is the "comforter cover stuffer shell" and then the "comforter stuffer shell filler" and so on?

Ok, so it is a distinction between separate covers or not?

(I don't remember lots of people having separate-cover duvets when I was young, but I suppose I didn't see a ton of adults' beds or pay a ton of attention.)

I thought that a duvet with a non removable cover was a quilt?

a quilt is quilted

my nan is obsessed with what tog duvet i have on the bed in my flat. if the tog is too low, i will surely perish in the winter months, you see.

xp Exactly.

a quilt is quilted

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^ truth bomb

You know when you buy say, a 40 tog duvet

My parents bought our first duvet sometime in the early 70s and I thought it incredibly sophisticated and la-di-da. Back then we called them Continental Quilts.

I'm pretty sure Leonard from BBT would have googled it.

^^^ yes, that is what it was called! When I used to have sheets and blankets I had a quilt, then when I got a duvet it was referred to as a continental quilt - "when" and where in this story being the early 80's in the UK, when anything from the continent seemed exotic and had snob value. See also cafetiere...

...and all the other swanky gear from Habitat

Was your quilt quilted?

my uncle referred to my down jacket as a duvet once

(xpost) yes

The real question is: were my sheets sheeted?

Quilts:

http://www.jmichellewatts.com/images/border%20sampler%20quilt%201.jpg

http://www.debbiemumm.com/Projects/Quilting/2007/04/images/ManyThanksQuilt.jpg

http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/Collections/Quilt_2065_detail_480.jpg

Like these?

I call the duvet a "freedom comforter"

So only Aussies call them doonas, then?

If you buy a 40 tog duvet it means you are going to die of asphyxiation and/or collapsed lungs and broken ribs. I have to sleep under a 15 tog when I go hope for Christmas and it's awful. I rock 10.5 all year round.

x-post. Yes, Trayce. doona, schooner, david booner.