Harry's clothes

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Tara <taradiane at y...> wrote:

> I have a question regarding Harry's wardrobe throughout the movie. 
> We all know from canon that Harry gets stuck with Dudley's oversize
> hand-me-downs.  In the movie, however, once he gets to Hogwarts, 
> he's got some nice fitting khaki's, jammies, and a red sweater 
> (which I don't believe is the Weasley sweater).  Um, where did he 
> get the new threads?  And for that matter, does it ever state in 
> the book whether or not he continues to wear Dudley's clothes while
> at school?

I'm pretty sure that the new clothes are his school uniform that he 
bought at Diagon Alley with his other school supplies. In the movie, 
we didn't see him buying his uniform, so we can guess that Madam 
Malkin saw the condition of his Muggle clothes and wisely added 
underwear, socks, and jammies to his puchases. 

In the book, the school uniform was the robes that we saw him buy (in 
the scene where he first met Draco) and the uniform robes were a 
complete garment, like a monk's robe or a caftan or such, so no 
Muggle outer clothes were worn at school (except shoes (trainers = 
sneakers) and socks). Now that you mention it, I fear that Harry had 
to wear Dudley's cast-off shoes, socks, underwear, and jammies at 
school! Surely Draco would have said quite horrible things if he had 
witnessed Madam Malkin noticing the condition of the clothes that 
Harry had worn into her shop.