[HPforGrownups] Dress robes

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 53825

GulPlum wrote:
>My point exactly. If you can't imagine "dress robes" based on what the
>movies portray, the movie doesn't portray something that can rationally be
>called a "robe". In other words, I imagine "dress robes" to be along the
>lines of what Dumbledore wears rather than what the students wear.

My mental picture is that normal wizardly dress is the kind of "Renaissance
alchemist" garb, except that for more down to earth purposes robes are plain
rather than decorated with magical symbols, apart from the fact that wizards
seem to enjoy wearing bright colours I think they'd look monkish in their
day to day appearance.

However dress robes are a lot more elaborate. When I was a student at Oxford
in the 1970s, there was a shop in town that sold academic dress and they
would often have one of the robes appropriate to one of the university
bigwigs on display in the window, whereas students wore plain black, some of
the dress gowns were extremely flamboyant in reds, golds, etc.

So my feel about the Hogwarts robes is that whereas the professors would
wear something plain for everyday, there would be ceremonial ones
appropriate to the Headmaster, the heads of Houses, and so on, which no one
else would wear, whereas the students would wear more "decorated" robes,
perhaps multicoloured, with sigils and symbols on them.

Cheers

Ffred

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