Le Déshabillage impossible, released in the United States as Going to Bed Under Difficulties and in the United Kingdom as An Increasing Wardrobe, is a 1900 French short silent comedy trick film, directed by Georges Méliès.
(It is difficult to verify whether fast motion was used at the end, since the last few seconds appear to be missing from the surviving print.
[3] Going to Bed Under Difficulties marks the second use of the sight gag by Méliès in which a character, trying to undress, is foiled by magically appearing clothes; the first being Up-To-Date Spiritualism (1900).
[2] The film historian Paolo Cherchi Usai notes that the film evokes the concept of a split personality, a constantly recurring theme in Méliès's work: Méliès, constantly torn between unabashed playfulness and sheer perfectionism, was obsessed by the idea of multiple identity.
He was so aware of his multiplicitous personality that he staged a revealing and somehow disturbing parody of himself in Going to Bed under Difficulties (1900), in which he tries to undress and sleep while different clothes in various styles systematically appear, at increasing speed, upon his body.