Clothes

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No: HPFGUIDX 40734

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "aldrea279" <chetah27 at h...> wrote:
> Zoomphy:
> >>But, like, yeah! If the kids know enough to wear Muggle clothes, 
> why 
> don't their parents/the adults?>>
> 
> I'm going to have to go with the only answer I can come up with:  
> Generations Gaps.  Do you wear the same things that your 
grandparents 
> do?  Or your parents, for that matter?  I know I certainly don't. 
My 
> dad wears jeans.  Always.  In the winter he wears button down 
shirts, 
> in the summer cotton pull over shirts.  And that's it.  My 
> grandfather always wears jeans, cowboy boots, cowboy belts, cowboy 
> hats, and button down shirts.  That's rather different than what 
> someone my age would wear, I'd say.

That makes sense to me.  Also I think it reflects the "dressed-down" 
tendency of younger generations, in that an older wizard may prefer 
the robes in order to appear "professional" or whatever, but the kids 
would rather go for comfort.
 
> But one problem I always have with clothing: The Yule Ball.  I know 
> the girls are described as wearing pink robes and blue robes and 
> such...but what are they wearing under them?  A dress?  Or do they 
> keep their Hogwarts uniforms and just have the robe over that? 
Hmm...

I always assumed the dress robes were closed at the front (like the 
adult wizards wear), so it didn't really matter what the girls were 
wearing underneath.
 
> Ah, but they DO interact with Muggles: Muggle-born wizards.  This 
> reminds me of a line I remember from the movie...Ron and Harry are 
> sitting around during Christmas Break playing chess.  Hermione 
comes 
> up and watches.  One of Ron's pieces takes out Harry's piece, and 
> Hermion cries out "That's barbaric!"  Ron replies wtih "That's 
> Wizard's Chess."  *shrugs*  Just a clarification.  Muggle Chess is 
> where you move the wooden pieces yourself, and Wizard's Chess has 
> live little soldiers battling each other.  And Harry *is* Muggle-
> born, so to him it would be Wizard's Chess, or wizard's 
photographs.  
> To Ron and other wizards I'd imagine that'd be the normal for them, 
> whereas they would refer to other things as "Muggle" whatevers.
> 
> ~Aldrea

I think this is another key factor in the clothing issue: wizards who 
come from Muggle or part-Muggle backgrounds (Harry, Hermionie, 
Seamus, etc.), or those who seem more sympathetically inclined 
towards them (the Weasley family) are probably more likely to be 
familiar with--and utilize--Muggle clothing than those who are not.

~Christi