# Bathropes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251 "2018-03-08T17:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/21 "2018-03-08T21:14:31Z")
Who are you tie-ing up in the bath tub? And, why? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/22 "2018-03-08T21:23:49Z")
Hemp ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/23 "2018-03-08T21:31:08Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Hemp I’m picturing Tommy Chong ripping off the robe’s pocket and rolling it up.😃 (Yes, I know about hemp as a fiber, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/24 "2018-03-08T21:56:02Z")
The new bamboo fabric is nice and sustainable. You shouldn’t smoke it though. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/25 "2018-03-08T23:48:49Z")
Assuming the OP meant bathrobe, terrycloth is the best bet for absorbency. It comes in different thicknesses. I have a VERY thick one for winter and a much lighter one for warmer weather. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/26 "2018-03-09T00:24:59Z")
I have a thick terrycloth bathrobe that I never use, except sometimes in the winter, if it’s cold enough. Then I’ll add it to the foot end of my bed to keep my tootsies warm. It occurs to me that the belt of this bathrobe is pretty long. In a pinch, it could be used as a short rope. A bathrope, as it were. For the record, it is also made of terrycloth. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/27 "2018-03-09T00:26:53Z")
> [@tvaetbjorn](#): > > I own a bathrobe that I wear regularly, but never for its intended purpose. I don’t really see the point in one unless maybe you’re all lathered up in lotion after a bath. Eh. To each his own. Now I’m wondering for what other purposes one would wear a bathrobe… > [@](#): > > Hi, btw! (Ambivalid’s girl.) He’s talked about you a lot. 🙂 Howdy! Welcome to the Dope. (I hope it’s been good things…?) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/28 "2018-03-09T01:06:17Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > Assuming the OP meant bathrobe… Hey! Don’t just think you can hijack this highly focused discussion of bathropes, bat-ropes and bathrapes. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/29 "2018-03-09T01:12:36Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > This being the Dope, I thought it was baa-tropes. But we really haven’t had any good sheep related events here in a while. At least not in the shower. I guess you haven’t seen the pictures from the last mod loop gathering. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/30 "2018-03-09T02:28:14Z")
Google Cotton,waffle weave, robes. They work well instead of a towel. they are thinner than terry so cooler and dry quicker. Hotels use them so they can be had crazy cheap if you are willing to wait for shipping. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/31 "2018-03-09T05:10:36Z")
Cotton. My current one which I happen to be wearing is over 10 (possibly 15 now) years old and good summer or winter. It also happens to be black and has the Klingon Imperial Crest on it. I bought two; one for me and one for a friend when she was appointed as a judge in the county courts. PS – I mostly opened this thread because I figured anything that started out with bathropes would make good reading. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/32 "2018-03-09T07:08:31Z")
I like fleece. But for me the point of the bathrobe is to keep me warm, whether or not I just got out of the bath. So if it was too hot, I would just take it off. Whatever it is, it absolutely has to be non-static. So cotton is good. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/33 "2018-03-09T07:15:30Z")
What about pampoo? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/34 "2018-03-09T07:50:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Yeah, I was just reaching the shower curtain when my right leg got it’s cramp on. ISWYDT 😛 BTW, OP, on a ship you don’t refer to them as bathropes, they are called “Bathsheets”. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/35 "2018-03-09T12:19:56Z")
The best bathropes are stolen from AirBnBs in Germany. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/36 "2018-03-09T12:54:32Z")
Bondage in the shower can be pretty sexy. But yeah, you want to use a lightweight bathrope that doesn’t absorb too much water and get real heavy - distracts too much from the fun. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/37 "2018-03-09T13:02:47Z")
The bathrobe is dead and Harvey Weinstein killed it. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/38 "2018-03-09T13:27:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Decades ago a woman gave me a silk bathrobe. It was fine in the summer. I didn’t really like it, (no absorbency) but for some reason it really turned her on. When we broke up, she kept it!? (I hope accidentally and then was too embarrassed to return it) It was to give to new next boyfriend. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/39 "2018-03-09T13:34:56Z")
_Her_ new boyfriend. That’s what happens when you change your in in mid-sentence. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251/40 "2018-03-09T14:16:15Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > That’s what happens when you change your in in mid-sentence. How do you change your ‘in’? Does it require surgery? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathropes/810251.md?page=3)