[HPforGrownups] Robes (silly question)

[Jennifer]

No: HPFGUIDX 24874

Stephanie Roark Keener wrote:
> 
> Okay, so I'm rolling the cat hair off my husband's academic robes a
> few minutes ago (hopefully, I'll get a photo of him in his robes at
> opening convocation, he's got crazy black hair and round glasses,
> people STARE, I'll post it here, it's too funny) and I think, "Now
> are these the kind of robes wizards wear?"  Are they long and full to
> the ground?  Do they wear other clothes under them?  Are they open or
> closed in the front?  I remember someone at the Quiddich WC wearing a
> nightgown b/c he likes to be, er, "free" -- but I also remember Lupin
> sticking his wand in his belt (NO JOKES about my remembering anything
> having to do with Lupin's belt area), which suggests pants. What do
> they look like in the movie -- I just haven't checked.
> Stephanie

My vision of the belted robe is something akin to a monk's robe -- not
necessarily the same, but with a belt more like a rope/cord than the
flat buckle thingies we have now.  A baggy monk robe is about what I
pictured when reading these books for everyone else, now that I think
about it.  Or maybe something like the witches robes in Halloween
costume guides (not Elvira-like ones...the standard no-skin-showing
ones).

As for clothing underneath, I would imagine that it's a personal
preference.  Much like most men won't wear kilts, perhaps most modern
wizards prefer at least some shorts or pants (or at least some
underwear).  Tshirts may or may not be worn, depending on the cut of the
robe I suppose.  And the scratchiness of the fabric...do they ever say
what the texture of them are (I, for one, would wear an undergarment of
some sort if the robes were scratchy wool, for example)?

Of course, another idea is that they're more like old-school long
tunics, the ones that leggings were often worn with.  This just doesn't
seem right though, since purchasing matching leggings was never
mentioned.
-- 
Jenny

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"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."