Wizard Robes

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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No: HPFGUIDX C5401
From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Wizard Robes
Date: 7/30/00 11:35 pm  (ET)

Someone suggested a generational difference -- the kids wear jeans and
t-shirts under their robes, and don't wear their robes at all when hanging
out on holiday, while the middle-aged (my age) wear their robes as normal
everyday attire. I imagine (and, as someone said, "it's *my* imagination")
those middle-aged people wearing not-modern-Muggle underwear under those
robes: knee-length bloomers and shirt-like chemises. While we know that
old Archie likes 'a healthy breeze around [his] privates'.

The kids could be wearing much more Muggle clothing because they have
become closer to Muggles due to the shortage of wizarding folk after so
many were killed by Voldemort.

What could have happened around the time that Dumbledore defeated the
evil wizard Grindelwald so that people born after that time would get into
the habit of wearing underwear? Contact with the American wizarding folk
who had (in my previous hypothesis) been raised as Muggles, no contact
with their heritage until some British witches and wizards moved to USA
almost as missionaries?