clothing in the Potterverse

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90124

Potioncat wrote: 
> My first post here.  I've had a hard time picturing the clothes as 
> discribed in the book.  It certainly sounds like they wear robes, 
> with no street clothes underneath, but it's hard to imagine how 
> they'd ride brooms and really get around.

Carol:
It's always seemed off to me that Ron's mother sends her kids sweaters
(jumpers) at Christmastime, yet she seems to have no idea what Muggle
clothes look like. I also get the idea from the Pensieve scene in
which Snape is wearing nothing but underwear under his robe and from
the old wizard at the World Cup who likes "a nice breeze around his
privates" that wizards and witches don't wear anything except socks,
shoes, and underwear under their robes. That would mean that the
movies and the illustrator of the books got it wrong: these are close,
not open, robes--like a judge's gown or a graduation gown. As for
pajamas, which the boys do seem to wear (though Percy, IIRC, wears a
nightshirt, as does Snape), maybe Harry started out with an old pair
of Dudley's but was allowed to keep the ones that Madam Pomfrey gave
him on the various occasions when he was injured.

At any rate, the movie version of PoA is way off base in making the
kids indistinguishable from Muggles when they're not in class.

Carol, who thinks that riding a broom would be extremely uncomfortable
no matter what the witch or wizard was wearing.