Hogwarts Uniform

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 116759


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
> .-- Ray
>  
> Although this is actually movie contamination, I suspect that the 
Hogwarts 
> robe is worn as a cloak over the actual uniform of shirt, tie, 
jacket, and 
> trousers for a boy/skirt for a girl
>  
> 
> Me -
> 
> but this is contradicted both by the flashback pensieve scene in 
OoP and the
> shopping list they get at the start of PS. 
> 
> The school uniform consists of robes and nothing else. I suspect 
muggleborns
> are more likely to wear stuff underneath. plus it's a large castle 
in
> Scotland - castles are drafty.
> 
> K

I always pictured them like they are on the covers of the American 
hardcovers, with Muggle jeans and sneakers and sweaters underneath 
robes. I believe that the reason they chose to do uniform like 
outfits in the films was to make the kids look less like they were 
wearing lame Halloween costumes. 
Meri