[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard clothing

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 21896

 --- Zarleycat at aol.com ha scritto: 
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<I've thought about this, too. Robes always
<struck me as a rather <BR>
<inconvenient type of garment. I can't imagine
<you can run very <BR>
<quickly because your robes would either wrap around
<your legs as you <BR>
<ran, thus hindering your movement, or they'd billow
<out behind you, <BR>
<thus acting as a drag and slowing you down. Or
<you could hike them <BR>
<up, but then you couldn't use your hands for anything
<else. The last <BR>
<two suggestions would seem to suggest that you'd be
<wearing some <BR>
<other layer of clothing underneath. <BR>

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I never thought of wizards as being great runners, so
many of them can Apparate or ride broomsticks, which
are far more effective ways of moving fast.
Actually, when e.g. Snape is walking, his robes are
always described as "billowing behind him", or when
Mr. weasley runs down the stairs, he stumbles over his
robes- so it is made clear that they might not be the
most practical way of clothing, but at least the
35-year-old generation still wears and accepts them.
I've always imagined the robes as rather loose- to put
it in Muggle terms,very A-line- and if you don't wear
stockings underneath, but have naked legs, they are
not likely to cling at your legs. BTW, which material
are they made of (not the legs, the robes!)? JKR
refers to the Beauxbatons students as freezing because
of their thin silk robes, but nothing comes to my mind
about the material English robes are made of. Perhaps
it's really magical- warming when it's cold and cool
when it's hot.

Susanna/pigwidgeon 37



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