What's going on under Snape's robes (longish)

[subrosax99]

No: HPFGUIDX 74592

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <xpectopatronum at y...> 
wrote:
> 

> I have my own theory about Snape's real clothes > 
> From all of these descriptions, it is quite obvious that Severus 
Snape wear=
> s 
> robes, a cloak, underwear and nothing else underneath. Sorry to 
dissapoint =
> 
> you, but there are no taylored trousers, or neck-high shirts, no 
fingerless=
>  
> gloves, or scarves etc... 
> And I know why. 
> It is simply because Snape is a wizard, not a muggle, and the fact 
that he =
> 
> wears only wizard clothes leads me to believe that he definately 
comes from=
>  a 
> pureblood family, as witches or wizards who have grown up as 
muggles tend 
> to wear their robes over the top of their muggle clothes, but Snape 
wears o=
> nly 
> robes. The fact that Snape wore only robes as a 15 year old 
teenager, and 
> that he still wears only robes (and no muggle clothing underneath) 
probably=
>  
> suggests that that is what he has been wearing his whole life, with 
the lat=
> er 
> addition of his trademark long black cloak.
> This also makes him more 'wizard' to me. I cannot imagine Severus 
Snape, in=
>  
> anything that resembles muggle clothes, no matter how 'eccentric' 
or 'Goth'=
>  
> the clothing. It isn't him. He is a wizard, full stop. Wizards wear 
robes. =
> Note - this is all completely my theory.
> 
> -Cindy
> http://www.designerpotions.com/ss

I see what you are getting at, and you may be right. I definately 
think Snape is from a pureblood family, albeit one that has hit the 
skids. On the other hand, Ron is a pureblood (the boy doesn't even 
know how to use a phone) and we have at least one instance where he's 
got a shirt on under his robe, and in PS/SS, we see him get off the 
Hogwarts train with sneakers on. Tonks, who I assume is a pureblood, 
wears jeans and a t-shirt in OoP. I know they are younger, and 
probably less conservative than Snape, but still. 

No doubt the robe is the default wizard garment, it's just that I 
think there must be more to it than that. More than JUST a robe and 
underpants. Not like what Rickman wears in the films, probably, but 
SOMETHING. That's what kind of made me think the Snapes were too poor 
to buy Severus anything but the required school robes, which, for all 
we know, are meant to be worn over something else, shirt and trousers 
maybe. I gotta re-read the books and figure this out.

Allyson