To its fans, the top sheet is an essential part of a made bed: a crisp, clean buffer between The Body and The Blanket. To its detractors, that same top sheet is a superfluous distraction that is a pain to arrange in the morning and annoyingly bunches around one’s feet at night. Team Top Sheet argues that it’s more hygienic, more proper, just more correct to use one. Team None responds that it’s more efficient to skip it, and if you change your duvet cover regularly it’s just as clean. (Many Europeans just use a duvet cover.)⁠ ⁠ Since the top sheet has been a fixture in American bedding for decades, the lines are largely drawn generationally. More traditional Gen X and Baby Boomers defend the top sheet; millennials and Gen Z are kicking it off.⁠ ⁠ “I’m sure it is generational,” said Suzanne Duin, 63, founder and interior designer of Maison Maison Design in Houston. Her bedscapes, for both clients and herself over the years, are Nancy Meyers wonderlands of proper, starched perfection, with pleated bedskirts and brocade throw pillows. Recently, though, her clients’ high-school and college-age children have been requesting no-top-sheet arrangements for their beds. Read more at the link in bio. (🖊️: @rorysat, 📷️: Columbia Pictures/Everett Collection)