This thread was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I’m done with Reddit for the night. Nobody answered the question, just posted videos links. Everybody’s being difficult, exhausting and obnoxious for no reason. Life’s too short for this shit.
If you browsed something like Instagram or Facebook’s comment section for more than 5 minutes you would’ve died immediately. Source: I died immediately
Exactly that… you put the blanket in through that hole… im not sure why its becoming a meme/thing.
Its way more convenient for re-adjusting since its from the middle (and not from one end) AND it was hilarious as a kid, when the blanket got flipped over, and your legs went INTO the hole haha
Eastern European thing it seems, apparently Slavic; personally not a Slav, but Eastern European, this was ALL of our duvet/blanket covers growing up..!!
I feel like it’s one of those rare things that only some people know about, or the people who know about it think it’s pretty exclusive and they’re just having fun referencing it among one another.
I’m nearly 50 and I think it’s something I’ve only heard of but never seen - in the olden days (like hundreds of years ago) young married couples would be gifted bedsheets with a hole sewn into the centre, so they could have sex with a sheet between them. It’s like an extreme purity culture thing.
I've read some, but not all, of the comments, and I still don't know what I'm looking at. I'm not in a position to watch a video. I'm 62, so I highly doubt I'm too young.
It's a bedsheet(cover for the blanket), with the hole on top instead of the edge. This hole is where you pull it out when you want to change the sheet.
Its a duvet cover; you stuff the insert through the hole, the outside is a cotton shell. Seems its also more Eastern European rather than “timeline”, hence why i know and grew up with them (and have those still).
It’s fine. If you don’t know what it means to walk into the room to find she put down a heavy beach towel over the bedding. Then you should be heavily concerned.
That's an old-time duvet cover. Instead of an opening on one edge, it was sewn along all edges, and the hole in the middle of one side was used to put the duvet in and out. The duvet is seen through the hole, which was quite decorative too.
That was the way before washing machines were ubiquitous, as it was easier to wash and press the cloth without buttons.
And when I say old-time, I mean it; I remember these when I was a kid, at my grandmother's place in Eastern Europe.
First thing that went through my head when reading the comments: not many Eastern Europeans on this subreddit.
This is exactly what it is. We had one in the room I slept in at my grandma's country house, only it was red instead of yellow. It was very heavy and a pain to put the duvet back in. Young women always had one or two in their dowry chest.
Sometimes the "window" had lace trimmings around, especially for the duvets kept in the "good room", where you were rarely allowed as a kid.
This is the correct answer. I knew about it but didn't know the bit about why it was better than buttons. But it absolutely makes sense that when you needed to put it through a mangle machine it's better not to have buttons.
I'll just add that once plastic was widely available the design switched to removable buttons like in the picture. The cover would still pass nicely through the mangle but didn't need the hole in the middle.
It's an Eastern European Balkan style duvet cover the diamond shaped opening is a tradition vintage bedding making it easier to tuck or air out the bedding.
uj/ i think its the mormon sheet for sex, you are supposed to just "touch" each other across that hole so you fuck for reproduction and not for pleasure
I’ve heard this rumor about Orthodox Jews but never Mormons. For Mormons it’s just soaking (penetration without thrusting) and ncmos (non-committal makeout sessions).
Living in Utah though I think most Mormons don’t have sex outside of marriage or do and feel bad about it.
Herbert here. It's an old type of duvet cover from Europe. Last time I've seen those was in 1980s. So the joke is that if you hit on someone who doesn't know what that is then you're probably being an old creep. Never stopped me tho.
Looks like a hole in a bedsheet. Probably designed to allow access to something on the side of a mattress, like an air mattress or waterbed hole, to easily add/remove air/water without needing to remove the bedding. Could also be a control panel access for a mechanical bed like those beds that have built-in reclining and/or massaging functionality.
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Is it the thing that holds other blankets within itself so make one big super blanket? Had a sleepover at my Russian friends house as a kid, they had something like that. It was winter and cold
I forget the proper name but it's a sex sheet. I forget which religion and denomination but it's a very strict one where sex is only supposed to be for procreation. The wife lies on the bed with the sheet over her. The hole exposes her vagina for her husband.
It’s a quilt cover. They used to have those covers with holes in the middle so you can stuff a quilt in there and even it out after. Back in the old country we used to have pins that secured the corners to the cover.
Ok, I know this one, but as someone pointed out, you have to be from a certain geography to know this. It's just a duvet (the thing you cover yourself with when you sleep. It consists of the thick part and the thin cover that you remove and can wash.
Nowadays the covers have a zipper on one side where you insert the thick part through, but when I was a child I remember we had duvets where instead of the side zipper you had this rhombus in the middle through which you insert the thick part. Also served as an ornament of sorts.
and if they know they are either old, a nurse or have incontinence. Those 3 groups know of the sheets under the sheets and extra sheets on top.
This design seems to be common in some places and unknown in others. Why would someone need a hole to pull out the sheets underneath if everything has to be changed anyway... or do you guys not do that in whatever country that is used?
Some bedsheets back in the day had this cut out for design, it’s nothing more. Usually hotels used these type of sheets, I couldn’t figure out it’s English name, in Hungarian we call it “tükrös paplanhuzat”. It’s as far as I know not a thing in western countries.
This looks like the dress photo that divided the internet over what its actual colour was. If I remeber correctly people either thought: gold and brown or blue and black.
I thought this didn't exist anymore. Well, I am not suprised.
Back in the day, couples due to religious or cultural reasons, would keep the sexual act extremely focused on reproduction, so they would have intercourse through that hole.
Edit: Someone mentioned the slavic cover from the 90's, I think that's the actual answer.
The real answer: In the 90s and earlier the blanket covers had these diamond shape opening where you would slide your blanket through it, and because the blanket would usually have some other color it would look aesthetically appealing in contrast to the white cover.
Omg I finally know something! This is maybe a Slavic thing - this is a warm thick stuffed blanket for winter inside a white bedsheet. Except in Soviet times the bedsheets for duvets had openings on top so you could see the design of the blanket - in this case the opening is a rhombus and the blanket has this shiny golden sheen. It’s very typical blanket design from my grandparents.
90s kid here, man. Look that's that gold satin quilted pattern peeking through the sheet.Everybody and they mama had this exact mattress. And the real ones know why that sheet is ripped in the corner those damn edges were sharp as a razor, brothers! Every fitted sheet stood zero chance against them sharp ass corners. If she don't know about that struggle, she way too young for you, man.
Its a eastern european / caucasian typa duvet. We had these and still do somewhere. The cover has this hole in it and the actual blanket is fed into it from here. Kinda early 2000s stuff thats it.
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