Muggle World (Was: Quills)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117569


Juli wrote:
> <snip> 
> Besides, I don't think the robes are anything like a
> judge's, in GoF Fleur says she won't be able to fit in
> her gown, which means they aren't so wide as to make
> you feel like a nun, they must have some shape.

Carol responds:
True, but she's talking about dress robes, the WW equivalent of an
evening gown if you're female. School uniforms are probably another
matter altogether, unisex but medieval. I still think the closest
equivalent is the academic gowns worn by students at Oxford--not the
modern version but the one that was worn from the thirteenth through
the nineteenth centuries to distinguish the students (and faculty)
from the ordinary townspeople--Town and Gown.

Carol