I have several. My current one is fleece, but I also have a terry cloth one.
We keep our house at 64 degrees in the winter, so a robe is essential. Also, it’s useful to put one on after a shower, since it absorbs the water a towel misses.
Yes. I have a terry cloth one that I use instead of a towel.
No. I get out of the shower, dry off, and then put on jeans and a t-shirt. There’s no room in this sequence for a bathrobe.
Foot injuries that a diabetic may or may not feel depending on whether or not the disease has caused any nerve damage, that can also lead to infections that might or might not be felt in time do do something about it.
Which is a reason I would dread coming up diabetic - I hate shoes, my feet are always warm (I’ll go outside wearing sandals when it’s 40 degrees out and feel comfortable), and going barefoot is one of the pleasures of being in my own home. I’d be loathe to give it up.
I have owned a lovely spa-like thick white rob for about 4 years now. I have put it on 1 time, probably the day I received it from my wife as a gift of matching robes. It exists as a decorative prop in our bathroom hanging on a hook to provide the illusion of a spa-like master bath.
I hadn’t owned one since I was a child until I bought one on a whim 2 years ago. It was cheap, black and didn’t look stupid I guess. Because I rarely heat my place when I am the only occupant I mostly wear it while fully clothed in the depths of Winter. I don’t put it on in the morning anyway, after my shower I just get dressed.
I have a couple.
Only wear late fall through spring. Usually come home after work, then change into my sweats and my robe.
Yeah, I have a micro fleece lined robe. In the winter, I spread it over the radiator in my bedroom and when I wake up, it is toasty.
Yup. My grandfather died from an infected cut on his foot that he didn’t know was there. This was in the days before penicillin, so he may have died anyway, but early amputation may have saved him.
I own one but rarely use it. It hangs on the back of my bathroom door and pretty much use it only when all my clean underwear are in the laundry room and my drapes over the two big picture windows that I have to walk past to get from the bathroom to the laundry room are open. It’s big , fluffy cotton and warm and I like wearing it when needed.
Nope. Hate them. They never worked to keep my legs warm and I always think “grandma” when I wear them or see them on others. I just get dressed. For hanging around the house I’ll wear sweat pants but I have to be wearing something I could leave the house in. Just my quirk, I guess.
I’m wearing one right now! I have two, one light and one heavy, that I bought at Jennifer’s Hamam in Istanbul. I can’t wait to go back there one day. (if you go, bring your credit card and make sure you have an empty dufflebag to carry home all that you will buy. The towels!)
I spent far more money than I wanted to, but have never regretted a single cent of it. It’s so comfortable. If I could get away with it, I would wear a robe only, all the time.
This. Except my weekend started when I retired eleven years ago.
I have, I believe
4 waffle weave spa robes - two are white robes with hotel/resort cruise line branding and two in different colors. The lengths vary.
4 in terrycloth, in varying lengths and weights. 2 are hotel-branded, vacation souvenirs, as it were.
2- in fleece, one floor length and heavyweight- I hardly ever wear it but it’s heaven when the heat goes out in winter. The other is lightweight,my most favorite, the one I’m wearing now.
Plus the one silky sexy one. I hardly ever wear it but it’s there
So, yes - I like bathrobes. And my family has this strange habit, we hang most of our bathrobes in the main hall closet. If we are hanging out with friends at home in the winter and someone is cold, we’ll invite them to grab a robe from the closet.
I threw away several when I moved last year, the list is just what I kept
An old, heavy, too big Land’s End terry cloth number. My wife kept giving me acrylic robes and I wouldn’t wear them — putting one on after a shower was like using a plastic bag for a towel.
But with my current, massive, robe I can dry off my back without contortions. I can step outside in the dead of winter to get the mail or check on noises or look at the moon. The robe doesn’t make me feel like a coot, it makes me feel like a biblical traveler.
If it’s summer time and I’m alone, I don’t bother. If I have company, I have a dressy robe to wear. In the winter, I have a 100% cotton robe that is extra large so it’s like a blanket with sleeves. LOL
I have a terrycloth one to put on when I get out of the shower. Lets me “air dry” vs needing to towel dry and then put on clothes over still-damp skin.
I have a “regular” one as well though it’s about 15 years old and I rarely use it: usually when I leave the bedroom, I’m already dressed, and in the bedroom I don’t need it. It’s also a zip-front model, which is a style I loathe.
I was going to treat myself to a new bathrobe at the beginning of the year, but the shops got closed. This thread is reminding me that 1) my current bathrobe is not the best and 2) shops are open again. Might have to go bathrobe shopping.
My answers are “Yes” and “Not much”. 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. So we have to change in our own flats, which means a dressing-gown(bathrobe). My old one being a bit tatty, I bought a new one, but failed to notice that the manufacturer - and their logo on the front of the thing - is “Bedroom Athletics”. Which is a bit embarrassing.
Yes, (yes). Fleece leopard print. Warm in the morning when the house is 62F.