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Hello. I've been on this board a long time, you know. I've had plenty of jobs, I've loved, I've lost. I've made friends. I've made enemies. Most of them at Pitchfork. But I feel as if this is one of my homes on the internet.

On this board, in 2001, I stated my intention to buy a dressing gown.

It is now 26 January 2005.

And I still haven't bought that dressing gown.

TONIGHT: I am giving myself ONE HOUR, Oxford Street, unlimited amounts of money with the intention of MAKING THAT PURCHASE.

ILE. Recommend me dressing gowns. Colours. Makes. Models. Where to purchase. Tell me about YOUR dressing gowns. Do you buy new dressing gowns? Or do you still have the one your mam bought you eleven years ago when you went up to big school? Confessions of a Milkman stylee, or comfy terry-towelling?

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

New Answers For New Gowns. New Wave of New Robe. New Wave of New Rub more like.

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I have never owned one and intend never to own one. They freak me out.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Why is that? Is it because you are, like Ronan, scared that it might touch your bare winkie?

I definitely want towelling. No "sateen" for me. It shall be worn post-bath. And times when I am only getting out of bed for a cup of tea. I don't WANT to get fully dressed, and I need an outfit that confirms I shall be returning straight back to my lovely bed.

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Marks & Spencer or BHS should do you proud if you want plain and serviceable. I've got a bloke's one from Primark because women's are all too girly. Besides, Rob & I share dressing gowns. Ooh how unhygienic.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure why dressing gowns freak me out. Not, I imagine, cos of the though of it touching my bare winkie. If anything that would make me want one. I just find them... sinister.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Towelling is the only way forward, you know

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Or do you still have the one your mam bought you eleven years ago when you went up to big school?

Bango! You need towelling. Anything other is really not a gown, and while appropriate in Noel Coward comedies, is not suited to fucking freezing 7ams, nor will it help the post-bath drying process.

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

THIS is what I'm looking for. Yes, Marks & Spencer is where I shall be hitting first. BHS is going a little out of my way. Primark, I fear, wouldn't make heavy or comfortable enough dressing gowns? HOWEVER I do worry that gurls dressing gowns will all be in TASTEFUL PASTELS. I may have to get a big blokey one as well, ideally I would like RED TOWELLING. Bright red. Hurrah!

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Dude, I am going to Oxford St to buy a coat probably tonight. We must make sure we don't meet, or it'll be like that bit in Dr Who on the spaceship where the same person but from differnt times meets and its bad. I'm a bit lost, sorry. BHS do a very comfy dressing gown, innit?

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I must say that I do heartily approve of Noel Coward comedies as well, Mr Miles. Perhaps I should get TWO dressing gowns. I mean, it's not as if I haven't waited long enough for a dressing gown, isn't it?

Or maybe I should just go for a smoking jacket. I don't smoke. Is that a problem?

Alix, do you mean the one with Turlough and the Brigadier from different time zones? I think it would be okay, as we are in the same time zones. Unless you are back in 2001. Or perhaps I am back in 2001. We could possibly, you know, meet up and you could help me with my dressing gown purchase.

I need all the help I can get.

― Starry Sarah doesn't bother with this xpost lark, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

John Lewis. Yes, I have two 'gowns' -- but I don't count one as a full-fledged 'gown'. 'Robe'?

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

The aforementioned eleven year old dressing gown was from BHS. Be warned.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

That walloping great BHS the other side of Oxford Circus ain't too far surely...? I'm sure M&S will come up with the goods though.

My Primark dressing gown is lovely cosy heavy velourish towelling, in dark grey, and has big useful manly pocketses.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

i got a very nice blue fleecey one half price in the BHS sale thank you

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. I think there's a circular room. Good old Brigadier. I need a coat with pockets. Hmm.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I have had three dressing gowns in my life. First, the burgundy velvet one with the padded shoulders that made me look (ha-HEM) exactly like Nyssa off Dr. Who. (At least so I fancied as a child.) Then the requisite towelling one, though this one was an awful shade of mauve. And then the burgundy silk one which resembled a smoking jacket more than a dressing gown. Oh, how I loved it, and wore it until it fell to pieces.

Strange; I was just having a conversation the past weekend about dressing gowns. Specifically about how people never washed them. Or, in this case, never mended them.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I just find them... sinister.

capital S?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I am not allowed to wear these. My mum says they are for "senile old men".

Mine is M&S and blue and towelly and nice.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

What about.... Uniqlo? Just throwing that one out there, testing the water...

I believe a "robe" is less for bath purposes, whereas a "gown" is inhrently tied up somehow with the washing process.

If going to BHS means risking seeing anything like Rick's dressing gown again I MUST AVOID!

Alix: Mawdryn Undead?! When are you going to be at Oxford Street? Perhaps I shall send you an electronic mail.

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I have a dark red one that I've had for years. That's the best thing about dressing gowns. After you have one you never need buy one EVER AGAIN.

My dressing gown is not towelling, its made of a slightly fluffy fleecy type material which is warmer and more comfortable than towelling. Various Ilxers have, I believe, seen me in it, looking bewildered.*

*Everyone** looks bewildered in a dressing gown. Its a combination of the Arthur Dent factor and the fact that you only ever wear them while half asleep.

**Except Hugh Hefner.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

My mum tried to buy me a SHOCKING PINK one at Liberty's while she was here. I resisted. I don't really know why. It was lovely.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Matt, I have worn a fluffy fleecy dressing gown before, but I WORRY that if you are a little damp from your HUMAN CLEANSING RITUAL then the fleecy bits would stick to you ugh ugh and the gown would be soggy and oh man, that's not a nice image.

xpost: How MUCH are dressing gowns in Libertys?

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

i don't have one at the moment. i want a silk liberty print kimono so, so badly. i have to detour round the building at the moment or else i go in and paw them and cry. for about £100 less, i suppose i'd settle for one of those white waffle-weave robes you get in expensive boutique hotels.

xpost - KATE, YOU FOOL!!!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

The fleecy bits do not stick. Its okay.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

sarah, the kind i want runs at least £200.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Strange; I was just having a conversation the past weekend about dressing gowns. Specifically about how people never washed them.

I have two, specifically so I can wash one whilst wearing the other. One is dark red, the other white; you can guess which gets washed least.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I know, I know! We were rowing at the time, and I was trying to prove a point about how non-materialistic I am, and how I DON'T need to be bought clothes by my mum. I should have shut up and taken the beautiful gown. It was far more than I could ever have afforded. It was ON SALE, on extreme post-Xmas sale for £100 or something!

It was shocking pink, deep towelling, and had a Japanese dragon stiched on the back, kimono-stylee.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

i saw a lovely man's one in *whispers* matalan on saturday, had an outer layer of velour and a towelling lining. Looked very cosy, was tempted to pick one up but i already have 3 dressing gowns which is probably a little excessive.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Lauren I sense that the white waffle weave ones as I keep seeing in Muji would not be very comforting, and after a hard bath I definitely want the whole comfort thing. I think LINEN is not what I'm after.

A kimono, I want one of those, but this is secondary to the whole "gown" issue. I will probably get one in 2010.

Matt, I'd like to be reassured, I really would.

I don't think I could do shocking pink.

OR COULD I?!

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Shabaz, are you adverse to leopard print?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

the waffle ones are soooo nice. you just need to find one that's a good soft cotton. linen, bleah.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Hello Stevem, not being Kat Slater, I think I probably am. Doesn't leopard print by nature involve the "sateen" element I reject upthread anyway?

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

There were colours more traditional than shocking pink at Liberty. That was just the one that I wanted.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I am sure they have discontinued that particular BHS line. I mean, how many people could have bought a gown in such a strange looking design?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Waitwait humans can buy those expensive-hotel white gown things?

NO MAN is more handsome looking than in one those, ever. Fuck suits.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

usually, department stores have a section where they sell high-end bedding and towels (egyptian cotton, insanely high thread counts, etc) and within that section are usually schrager hotel-worthy dressing gowns.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

No, I really want to know if ILx can picture me in SHOCKING PINK.

Look I just took a picture of me, can you imagine the rest of me in SHOCKING PINK?

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/terrifyingaintit.jpg

I think Rick, that your dressing gown is in a design only visible to MUMS.

xpost YES Gravel but we are talking about ME here :) Also I have never seen a bloke in a classy dressing gown EVER, real actual science fact!

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Greg - that's because they make you look like you've just been having champagne-fulled jacuzzi sex with three swimsuit models.

This effect is ruined the second you spill tea down them.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm spotty.

― Spotty Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I am so asking my flatmate to get me an Alfie Moon-esque kimono for my birthday. Fuck that would be awesome.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm wearing one right now! I look like barry out of eastenders. don't get one like mine.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Shocking pink = high maintenance. You'd have to apply lipstick the moment (if not before) you got out of the bath. A dressing gown should be soothing.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

haha 'stenders xpost!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Well, I won't be going for a grey one, no offence Liz. I think it must be red.

M&S Online though, says no red. MAN, I REFUSE to give in and wear lilac!

Or perhaps I SHOULD get Lilac and I could pretend to be in the Lilac Time.

― Starry SArah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

The joy of the dressing gown is no one sees you in it, except the postman and we live on the 3rd floor and never see the postman anyway.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the aforementioned flatmate has one that is EXACTLY like the one Steve Guttenberg wears in the Three Men And A Baby. Vertical stripes are a good thing.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Dude, we live on the second floor, don't be fooled by that ground floor = level one nonce sense!

That's true. We never see the postman :(

Actually although I have once or twice and I have had to get very hastily dressed with has made me grumpy. This wouldn't have happened if I had had a dressing gown.

― Starry Sarah, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Grey will always look dirty, no matter how clean it is. I think that dark colours are better as they do not show the dirt and the wear. My pale mauve one always looked filthy.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

mine isn't towelling or fleecey or waffle.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

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my flatmate has a several pairs of satin boxer-style shorts. they look wicked, but she's diluted the effect somewhat recently by wearing them with big hippie knitted knee-high slipper socks.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

An interesting look.

Sarah, don't panic! Just look in the no-nonsense men's sections, and you'll feel all sensible and non-fluffy when you find a plain red towelling robe.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Matt got a really nice navy blue fleecy one for Xmas, from BHS. V warm, no fluffy bits leaking.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I got a dark grey (with vertical grey stripes) fleecy dressing gown for xmas. It is a mans' one, in order to avoid pastel. I also have my great grandmothers robust red tartan one made out of old blankets (perhaps) but I don't wear that often as it is a bit scratchy.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Look I just took a picture of me, can you imagine the rest of me in SHOCKING PINK?

But you're a GOFF! Shocking pink would be PERFECT!

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Are these the same as bathrobes? I would like one.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

COTTON WAFFLE IS THE BEST MOST COMFORTING THING IN THE WORLD.
hurrah, really/
I'm so glad that other people (specifically female) wear mens robes, I've wanted one for ages but I thought that it would make me a lesbian

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I WANT TO KNOW HOW THIS STORY ENDED. TELL ME NOW.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

OH!

It's a really good story, actually!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

So I'll tell you.

OK. I left work with a determined GLINT in my eye. I took the Charlotte Street route to Oxford Street and went straight to M&S. A co-worker had told me that Per Una have very cosy dressing gowns. I walked into M&S and got THE FEAR. Where would dressing gowns be? I had a vague memory of lingerie, but the lingerie section upstairs at Oxford St M&S always depresses me. You have to go up those dingy stairs, and then upstairs is ALWAYS silent whilst depressed and harassed women pretend there's excitement and sexiness in their lives by looking at overpriced bras. Yeah whatever, you don't fool me, you fvking idiots. Anyway. They turned out to be downstairs.

And oh my! They were comfy!

But the colours!! Acid green, lavender, CYAN BLUE and some form of rub shocking pink. For 35 nicker or so! I phone Alix and ask her advice. I can't remember what she said though. What did you say, Alix?

I decided that I would look at the other shops, and left M&S.

TO BE CONTINUED.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I am not in a dressing gown, but I am in a different kind of gown. And square hat.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

A professing gown?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Do the arms tie up round the back?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Next I hit La Senza and that other shop across the road. Other Shop has nothing, La Senza has one fleecy purple thing for £60 (UP YOUR BUM, I think) and a "white cotton waffle" one for considerably less. I shun these and continue up the road. By then, I was getting a bit dispirited. I had a reputation as a bit of a searcher I suppose, and in a way I still do, but I must confess I wasn't feeling on top of the world, I mean, happy go lucky wasn't my middle name. It was cold and it was raining and my mind was full of acid green towelling horror. I pass Oxford Circus and find myself standing in front of British Home Stores.

TBC...

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/seven/me%20in%20office001.jpg

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

In British Home Stores you have to go upstairs to find the dressing gowns. I always get lost in there. I don't like it, as Lou once said. OK, he said it a lot. But I don't. Trudging up the escalator, face glistening from the rain outside, my eyes reflect my own desperation. Past the ginormous granny nighties (I was tempted to get one of those, for serious), I find Snoopy night-shirts. I consider crying, and then behind me, LO, what do I see!

DRESSING GOWNS.

They are all hideous. By now I don't care, and the spirit of contrarianism has kicked in. I grab the most horrific bright pink one I can find, MARCH to the tills and pay. I text Katie, telling her of this purchase. She replied saying she is waiting til summer to get a bed-jacket.

"That would be good", I think.

I trudge out the side exit of BHS, and check the time. 15 minutes til Pub O Clock.

Does the story end here?

NO!

xpost: blimey Pete gowny goodness even tho isn't that a mortar board and thus not REALLY a gown, come on man.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

The gown is lower. My arm not long enough to take that photo.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

So anyway (is anyone listening?), I decide to kill 15 minutes in H&M. I am worn out by my epic journey. I haven't found a single red dressing gown. They're all £30. But at least I've got one. I stroll round upstairs of the Oxford Circus branch. All a load of toss of course, all rub. I go downstairs. I see a nice bag, a nice skirt. I try on a coat, but they only had it in a size 8, which frankly, is a tiny bit too small. I reckon I could have got away with a 10, but nah.

I walk round the corner.

I drop my bags, fall the floor and WAIL TO THE HIGH HEAVENS.

Dressing gowns. Red. Fleecy. Hooded. In the sale. £15.

I AM A F***KING IDIOT.

So, there I am. I buy the dressing gown. I then go for broke and buy a couple of other things as well. I turn up to the pub and drown my sorrows in Old Brewery Bitter. Later on, I meet the person who was then my potential b0yfr1end. I tell him the story, and don't get dumped, but looking back, frankly, would you go out with someone like me? I don't blame you. Yes. So, a couple of weeks later, I work up the courage to return the BHS dressing gown. I now own a dressing gown, which I love, but by gum, it was hard work. I intend for it to last forever.

BTW it really suits me too, but unlike Pete I have no intention of photographing myself be-dressing-gowned for you.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Christ why couldn't I just have said "yes, I got one in the end"?

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

And what thanks do I get for all that effort? Nothing. Nothing. I'm shaking from the caffiene I needed to type all that out, and my payback? Rien! Alas!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

it is less entertaining, and sympathetic, if you do that!

I would kill for the dressing gowns in the dressing rooms at Agent Provocateur but they are neither red nor fleecy.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

i enjoyed your triumph of adversity Shabaz

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

and not in the 'schaudenfreude' sense either

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

He said I looked cute in it, but he never "stayed over" again.

To be honest, I didn't think he would.

Thank you for your sympathies.

(I am enjoying my BATHOS here!)

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

I have never even seen them sell a robe or a dressing gown in the H&Ms here, I somehow feel slightly gypped by this.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Well that's why I didn't go there in the first place! I had no idea they sold them! But if you do find them, I highly recommend getting one. Oh it's so nice and soft and warm and satisfying. I might wear it tonight.

And it's got a hood! I look like I'm in either the PSB's "It's a Sin" video or a JD video or something.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Or "Mama Said Knock You Out"!

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

What's that?

Boy, I wish I was home in my dressing gown, right now.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

I am implying you might look like a boxer! Which is a good reason to buy a hooded dressing gown IMO.

I do not have a dressing gown, in my home. I have one, at Tombot's house, but only because it was so freaking cold there for months it was impossible to not have one after the shower.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Cor this was genuinely exciting! Shall I post my 'shopping for a summer wedding outfit on Oxford Street in the bitching cold' story here now?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh, but it's a long dressing gown, not a short one, and don't boxers have short and shiny ones? I don't really know, I'm not a big boxing fan. I prefer darts.

Dressing gowns = a quality of life enhancement device.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I have a My Melody dressing gown. It is the twee-est thing I've ever owned by far, but it is very comfy.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

There is something just wrong about a shiny dressing gown.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I have a dark red one that I've had for years. That's the best thing about dressing gowns. After you have one you never need buy one EVER AGAIN.
My dressing gown is not towelling, its made of a slightly fluffy fleecy type material which is warmer and more comfortable than towelling.

Matt in owning semi-similar dressing gown to be and being otm shocker.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Well, see references to "sateen" upthread!

I kind of like them in the suburban housewife style, I think there's a certain beauty to it, you know, to the person who gets their hair set once every week and you never see without make-up on, ever. A bit like the older lady in Alfie, really, but less sophisticated. Voice hoarse from too many high strength cheap cigarettes etc etc.

I wouldn't want to own one.

xpost: hey, red suits me, what can I say. I only suit red and black. I wish I suited pastels.

I probably will... later.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Starry, I was about to compliment you on your story, but I got da POXY FULE!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Do you think Superpitcher might find this story and be so charmed by me he turns straight?

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Wear muted colours.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I have amazing massive pyjamas that keep making me trip up in comedy fashion.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

What DID happen to your dressing gown, again?

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

No one really knows. It just went away. I know I had it in Oval, but can't remember wearing it in Walthamstow, but that was summertime, and I definitely don't have it in Peckham, so God knows. I don't need one nowadays anyway. I have my massive Primark pyjamas. That place has some interesting sizing policies. Everything else in my size is ridiculously tight, but when it comes to pyjamas I could fit another person in there with me. Albeit a smallish person, but none the less.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I have a white toweling dressing gown which is old, but very soft and now looks much better having been washed with bleach. I also have a short red satin one with Chinese embroidery. This looks better over sexy* nightgowns.

(If by sexy you mean the slip dresses I bought as a Sarah Cracknell obsessed teen which now are horribly short owing to boob growth in the last ten years and have several hot rock burns in them. I.e. not sexy at all.)

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I enjoyed this story.

I have no dressing gown, I've never like them. They remind of having to get ready for bed early when I was younger, I would keep Refreshers and Aero's in the pockets, with snotty hankies.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I have a nice thick green one. I used to have a smoking jacket which was more of a male housecoat. I would kill for a proper smoking jacket. The world would be a better place if we all had nice warm clothes for lounging around our houses in.

My life, I feel would be enriched by beard and briar pipe as well.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I have my wooly hat, I only wear it indoors, it's nice and warm. It has never been washed.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Ed, I have long thought that you should grow a beard.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

what's a dressing gown?

is this a fancy word for ROBE?

i'm lost in the woods here.

― jane (jane), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Certain ladies of my acquaintance are not in agreement with you, Richard. I have long though that King Edward VII would be a suitable model.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 March 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Jane, I think dressing gown = bath robe, but with a British accent. Am I right here?

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

A bath robe is what you put on when you get out of the bath. A dressing gown is similar in appearance (can be but isn't necessarily made of towelling (=terrycloth?)), but you put it on when you get up in the morning and sometimes before you go to bed at night.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

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