Clothes

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No: HPFGUIDX 40793

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "shadowgirl_900" <shadowgirl_900 at y...> wrote:
> Hello! New Chick Alert. :)
>   Anywho, saw this and had to comment.
> 
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., autryld at e... wrote:
> > In movie, Mrs. Weasley dressed in muggle clothes to 
> > drop of her boys at the station. (In  the book we 
> > aren't told what she wore.) 
> 
> No, it doesn't say what she was wearing, but at the end 
> of book three, Uncle Vernon is standing at the station, 
> waiting for Harry and the book says: "Harry spotted 
> Uncle Vernon at once. He was standing a good
> distance from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, eyeing them 
> suspiciously..."
> 
> Now, at the begining of book one, we saw how he reacted 
> to the wizards who were wearing robes and hats in public. 
> If the Weasleys were wearing wizard clothes, wouldn't 
> Vernon have known they were wizards, not just suspected 
> it?
>
> I'm thinking he suspected it because of the fact they, 
> like him, were waiting for people at a place in the 
> station where no trains came to. (Platform 9 3/4.) 
> He had no proof they were even connected to the
> wizarding world until they hugged Harry.
> 
> This would seem to hint that they looked normal. I would 
> think that most wizards who are in public do. The whole 
> thing right after Voldemort was a fluke I think, just like 
> the storm of owls out in the day. And all the other wizards 
> we see are in the wizarding world, be that Hogwarts, Hogsmead, 
> or Diagon alley.
>
>  Just my two cents. :)
> 
>     Laura

Logically, there are very modern knowledgeable wizard families and
very traditional isolated families. You'll notice at the Quidditch
Tournement, the most freaky dressed wizards were older wizards. They
see the muggle world with a distorted logic, so they see muggle
clothes from an equally twisted logic. To the old man in the
nightdress, what he was doing made perfect wizard logic sense to him.
In fact, an older man like that probably sleeps in a nightshirt
similar to the type worn by most men in the late 1800's and early
1900's. So a pretty nightdress made sense to him; just a fancy
colorfull nightshirt.

Other wizards dressed in 'plus-fours' (knee high puffy golf pants)
wouldn't be too out of place on a very stuffy upper class muggle golf
course but illogical for muggle camping. Still to wizards who
typically have unusual taste in clothing, they probably looked pretty
sharp. 

Upon hearing of another wizard in kilts and a poncho, Mr. Weasley
questioned whether this was wrong? Logically, a poncho is close to a
robe and has it's definite advantages, and kilts are the traditional
dress of Scotish men, so the combination makes perfect sense to an
outsider. 

The Weasley family in on the edge, the parents still very strongly
affected by their isolated upbringing, but very open to muggle
possibilities, and even making an effort to act and dress somewhat
muggle. That could explain why the Weasley boys wore pajamas. 

The Weasley kids on the other hand are completely muggle knowledgable
and comfortable (clothing wise; in general, they are still somewhat
isolated). From a greater exposure to muggles and muggle kids, common
muggle dress (t-shirt and jeans) is second nature to them. Of course,
being that knowledgable, means they would never let Mr. Weasley out of
the house dressed in a poncho and kilts. So through their kids, the
Weasley parent could probably pass relatively easy for muggles as long
as they didn't say anything like, "Oh look Molly, it's one of those
fellytones."

I could see a lot of younger magic teens going on adventures in muggle
London dress passably, but not quite getting it right. Their dress
would seem slightly odd to the average London teen, but not so unusual
that it would be of any consequence.

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