# Do you own (and use) a bathrobe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463 "2020-10-08T03:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/61 "2020-10-11T20:24:40Z")
I have one, but only use it very rarely, when, after having gone to bed, I need to go out into the living room or kitchen again. Mighty rare, 'cause normally when I go to bed, I stay there. (I sleep in my bare-nakeds.) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/62 "2020-10-11T21:40:33Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > As it happens, the complex where I live has a swimming pool but has to close the changing rooms because they’re not ventilated sagely enough for Covid restrictions. Assuming this was a typo for “safely?” I wouldn’t think they’d be saging the dressing rooms for Covid avoidance. I have a couple. One is big and fluffy and pink and 99% of the time waaaaaaaaay too warm to wear without it turning into a personal, wearable sauna. My other is a short, kimono-style that I wear all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Deanna\_D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Deanna\_D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deanna_D)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/63 "2020-10-12T00:17:20Z")
I have quite a few, and would wear them 24/7 if I could. I’ll slip into one after I take a shower, and wear it while I dry off and finish getting dressed. But those days that I don’t need to go anywhere, I’m very likely to just never get dressed and enjoy the soft, fuzzy comfort of a robe. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/64 "2020-10-12T12:45:50Z")
Because (well, partially) of this thread, I went and got a new bathrobe. Mid-calf, waffle exterior, terry lining with a hood. I’m probably done with needed a bath towel. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/65 "2020-10-12T22:00:22Z")
I have, ridiculously, 9 dressing gowns. One is my ex’s old navy blue one, used for when I dye my hair One is the simple white towelling robe, used for after a bath One is a hugely fluffy monstrosity that can keep you warm no matter the temperature One is fluffy but slightly less warm, and covered in bunnies One is a tiny, light cotton thing that covers the important bits without being too hot in the summer The others are all kimonos. For some reason when people give me a gift, they give me a kimono. I’m fine with this - they’re all beautiful. I rotate them depending on how I feel about the gift givers 😃 I also put two older ones in the clothing bank recently. They’re handy items - keep you warm, are comfortable, can be put on over something lighter that you then go to bed in, or put on over day clothes if it’s chilly but not worth putting the heating on. They probably save me a fair amount of money in heating bills. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/66 "2020-10-12T23:31:49Z")
You’re a person after my own heart. I have two heavy 100% cotton robes. (UGGS and Land’s end). One is in the downstairs bath where I take my evening ablutions and put on my pyjamas. The second is the one that lays on top of my electric blanket on my bed so I have a warm robe when I get up on winter mornings or in the middle of the night. It doesn’t make much sense, and I could get by with one, but one day I realized I kept leaving the one I had in the wrong room, so I got a second one and things are fine. I feel like a sybarite. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/67 "2020-10-13T07:46:12Z")
And this morning the postman rang twice at 8:15. Normally no issue, but we’re on vacation. So the postman got to be the second person to see me in my new bathrobe. And I even got the email from the post telling me I would be getting a package and I forgot about it. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/68 "2020-10-13T10:26:00Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > And this morning the postman rang twice ¿Doesn’t he always? ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/69 "2020-10-13T10:40:13Z")
No, not always. In my case he rings once - and then once again. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/70 "2020-10-14T14:51:28Z")
I have a couple, but I don’t use them regularly - generally I keep the house at a temperature where I don’t need it for walking around. It’s nice to wear one when it’s cold, but I’m hot-natured enough that if I regularly kept the house cold enough to warrant me wearing one, other people would be freezing. I do use them for things like grabbing the mail without putting on pants, or (before contactless delivery) for things like doordash where the whole point of delivery was to not have to get dressed up and go out for food. I also take them on trips where I’ll be staying with other people so I can wander around a house/hotel/cabin without actually getting dressed. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@Earl\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/71 "2020-10-14T17:08:44Z")
I own one but never use it, bought it on a lark. In the morning, there’s no room in my shower-towel off-get dressed sequence for one, and as for the rest of the day, if I get cold I prefer blankets or shawls. My thermostat’s set higher than most it seems too, I can be outside in 40 degree weather w/o a coat, and robes just get too damn hot. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/72 "2020-10-15T23:08:18Z")
Back when I was doing a lot of kayaking there was somebody within the orbit of my paddling club that was making “changing robes” for people. They were like a big, hooded monk’s robes with big roomy sleeves. The idea was you put it on over your wet clothes, use it to dry off and then put your dry clothes on under it, all without having to find a private place. The one’s my fellow club members had were fleece or terry cloth and most had “fun” prints. I never connected with whoever was making them and they seemed pretty handy so I made my own really simple one out of two giant bath sheets. It didn’t have sleeves or a hood but it got the job done. At the time the only ones I could find online were from Australia, where they seemed to be common but were marketed mainly to women. I used the one I made many, many times in a crowded parking lot at a city park. At the time I had a shaved head and my friends would make that Buddhist gesture where you put your palms together and bow your head, so I guess that’s the vibe it gave off. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463/73 "2020-10-15T23:20:03Z")
@River_Hippie If I knew how, I’d post this in the “neat MacGyver hack” thread for you-you deserve the credit for a good one. It would be great for parents of kids at the beach/lake too, save everybody from a wet car ride home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-and-use-a-bathrobe/922463.md?page=3)