>I have a duvet. I sleep on 2 pillows, but both are rather flat feather pillows. So my head sinks in and it is really comfortable. Here you can buy a duvet almost anywhere (including Walmart and Target) and definitely at all linen stores but here a duvet is a bedsize pillowcase that holds a quilt INSIDE IT. You remove the outer covering (duvet) and wash it.

No, you guys have got it wrong: the duvet is the quilt and the "pillow case" is the "duvet cover". Maybe your quilts aren't the same: Ours are lightweight, usually white, of cotton or poly-cotton, filled with foam or feathers. You fluff them up just as you would do a pillow. They're not like the type you cover the bed with.

> My daughter has a duvet on her bed as well. It is convenient for washing but not so great for appearance. The duvet can slip around and I ended up added velcro tabs on my daughters so it would stay in place on the quilt that was inside it.

LOL. I can just picture you sewing velcro tabs on all your kids' PJs :-) You must have the wrong type of quilt for the concept. A proper duvet quilt just sort of envelopes you and stays put.

While we're on the subject, why are women referred to as "the weaker sex"? I challenge any man to wrest the bed covers from a woman's grasp once she's pulled them over her side of the bed! :-)