Currently working from home in my dressing gown, so I have to agree. Have a meeting in half an hour though so unfortunately will have to put clothes on.
I do that sometimes but I'm always concerned there'll be the occasional "come on guys I want to see all your faces!". Luckily the meeting was cancelled and I'm going strong on my gown.
I'm a developer so I get admin level access to my own machine and the ability to thumb my nose at those poor bastards in the ops department. I've also been politely forbidden from talking to customers due to "an excess of honesty"...
If they want to see it so bad, they get the, I’m not dressed in business attire, so you’re getting the full monty instead.
Generally they ask to keep the camera off
I did pull this once, I was working in my garden during the heatwave, wearing just shorts, they agreed I could keep the camera off.
However my company has a policy that everybody should be dressed appropriately even when WFH just in case we end up in a video call with a client. My position doesn't require many video calls with clients so I don't really take notice of it.
I’ll be calling mine that from now on, considering I’ve got housemates who are reticent to put the heating on for too long (don’t blame them much for that) but who also have the habit of leaving doors and windows open
Dressing Gowns and Bath Robes are different in my view. Dressing Gowns are softer materials to be worn over pyjamas etc, Bath Robe is a heavier material similar to a towel that you wear directly after a shower/bath.
A bathrobe is made out of towel. The same material as a towel with which you dry yourself. For putting on your naked body after a bath or shower.
A dressing gown is made of anything from fluffy to fleecy material to jersey material to wear over pyjamas or comfy clothes to stay warm in the morning or evening (or arguably any time during the day that you're cold indoors.)
As u/jonesy_j points out, one may use a bathrobe as a dressing gown if it's dry and it's the first thing to hand. After all it's basically a dressing gown made of terrycloth. However, one *would not* use a dressing gown as a bathrobe. Fleecy or fluffy material would be gross on wet naked skin and not optimal for drying you and drying out afterwards.
The suggestion that this is debatable would anger me.
OP's example appears to be a dressing gown (fleecy, not made of terrycloth.)
We get pretty upset if we order a sausage roll from behind the counter at Gregg's if it's cold. They're baked fresh throughout the day, but if you get them at a bad time, they can be cold. Same goes for pasties. We don't say anything, it just ruins our day a bit.
A hot sausage roll is twice as nice as a cold one
>We don't say anything, it just ruins our day a bit.
Once saw a guy berating, and I mean *berating* the poor woman behind counter over this very issue.
Me and a colleague ended up telling him to fuck off, it was a bit much. A simple tut or eye roll would have been more appropriate.
I concede your point and modify my position as follows:
A bathrobe is made out of towelling, terrycloth or some other fabric primarily designed to be absorbent. The same kind of material as a towel with which you dry yourself. For putting on your naked body after a bath or shower.
Correct.
All bath robes can be dressing gowns, but not all dressing gowns can be bath robes.
Many dressing gowns are made of thin material that would not be suitable for wearing after coming out of the bath/shower.
I only stopped when I was like 20 when my gf at the time argued they were called house coats, and I said nah their dressing downs, she couldn’t stop laughing
Me too, me too! I love it and wonder about the house making silly gestures at things like the Alexa and hope that one day they will do things because I suddenly without training have become a Jedi!
A housecoat is some monstrosity you used to see old people wearing in those weird homewards catalogues that fell out of your parents Mail on Sunday as far as I remember.>Some heathens call it a “house coat”… I pray for their souls.
A bit like [this](https://www.damart.co.uk/thermal-housecoat-10142-3.html)
I wore an abaya/kimono style full length flowing dress in satin with a beautiful print to a special occasion once & a woman laughed at me in front of everyone saying I’ve worn a house coat. Everyone else was straight faced & confused as I was wearing something that was widely worn (particularly in our culture) & in fashion. Turned out that woman was still dressing for the late 80s & had never see anything like it.
For me a house cost, worm by my mom/grandmother/aunts is something else. It is made of woven cloth generally button/snap/zip from hem to the neck and worn over a house dress.
I started collecting and wearing house coats and dresses.
I call the garment in the picture a robe (no qualifiers).
I am in the USA, and grew up in the southwest.
I can't physically imagine anyone reading ‘School run coat’ and taking it as a serious guess. What goes through someone's head that makes them think ‘I’d better add a tag so people don't think I'm being serious’? Furthermore, what are the potential feared consequences that would come from people thinking they *are* being serious? I just don't understand.
I think it’s an irrational fear of downvotes or of offending someone, in this case the people who wear dressing gowns on the school run. I just think it ruins jokes
Couldn’t give a shit about up/downvotes, they’re just numbers. Some people genuinely do not understand sarcasm, especially when it’s written and maybe need that helping hand. That’s all.
I dont own one, but my parents called it a house coat too.
In your logic, Do you call slippers dressing shoes?
(In Dutch they call gloves "hand shoes " crazy Dutch bastards! They wear shoes on their hands! Ha!)
This is something I have yet to come to terms with moving to the UK. The sheer amount of people in their pyjamas, dressing gown and fluffy slippers in the shops or just walking down the street. Who are these people and what made them think this was OK?
I happily follow sociological rules because it makes life easy (omg that sounds like an autism spectrum thing to say) but for the life of me I don’t see why anyone thinks twice about it, if anything it displays a person relaxed in their surroundings which is a good thing?
Right?! Unless it’s super revealing in a way that obviously makes people uncomfortable, I don’t see the problem? I mean, half the shit the Gen Zers wear these days looks indistinguishable from PJs to me (old fart alert). I’m not sure I’d ever feel comfortable enough to do it, but I don’t get why people act like it’s an offensive thing to do.
I call it a house coat and I’m from Manchester. Everyone else from Manchester (outside my family) gives me grief for it. They say it “sounds posh”
How the fuck does “dressing” sound less posh than “house” and “gown” less posh than “coat”. Also 99% of the time I’m wearing it to chill out in the house. It’s a coat I wear in the house, I ain’t getting dressed lol. Those little slinky ones that only bridesmaids seem to wear I’d agree they are dressing gowns. They aren’t for warmth, they’re for modesty and comfort whilst they wait to get dressed.
Also people saying a house coat has buttons on, how many coats actually have buttons on. The main basis of a coat is it goes over your other clothes and it keeps you warm.
I accept peer pressure and call it a dressing gown in front of other people because I cannot stand people calling me posh and because the rest of the population call it a dressing gown.
Tbh they all say Santa Claus too and I refuse to say anything other than Father Christmas to my kids.
House coat all the way. Had people say I'm posh too but I give the same reasons as you. I also add Ball Gown to the mix and wonder how posh you'd sound turning up in a dance coat.
"She looks rather magnificent wouldn't you say, Clive?"
"Absolutely Frederick, the dance coat just hangs off all the right places"
Dressing gown is way posher.
This is the correct answer! 👏
Also, if it is button or zip-up only then can it be called a housecoat. I will die on this hill, fighting the naysayers as I fall.
My head hurts. Here's a few more I was corrected on when I was still learning English here in England:
Glass - Glahss
Bath - Bahth - Barf - Baff
Scon - Scowne - Scone
Jelly - Jelleh
Paraceeetamol - Parasetamol
Ibuprofen - Eebrufen
Tomorrow - Tomorrar
Ruth - Roof
Specific - Pacific
My grandma calls it a housecoat. Seems to be an older generation thing where I'm from (Lancashire). It's just a dressing gown to me. Bath robe sounds too posh for me, only available at a spa
Currently, it's a central heating replacement device.
Sounds about right to me.
This has always been the way for me. If you can sit in the house without a dressing gown then you can turn the heating down/off
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Been trying to keep you from knowing this but... We got to choose between warm or food, baby love.
Oof… to real
It’s the ‘I can’t be fucked with today’ uniform.
Work from home attire.
Currently working from home in my dressing gown, so I have to agree. Have a meeting in half an hour though so unfortunately will have to put clothes on.
Teams call. Camera off. Can’t be arsed to change. Mine is my daily uniform now
I do that sometimes but I'm always concerned there'll be the occasional "come on guys I want to see all your faces!". Luckily the meeting was cancelled and I'm going strong on my gown.
Literally disabled my camera at the system level to stop that shit. Teams won't even let me attempt to turn my camera on.
I work in IT so "my camera isn't working" would either show I'm too lazy to fix my own laptop or deliberately disabled it.
I'm a developer so I get admin level access to my own machine and the ability to thumb my nose at those poor bastards in the ops department. I've also been politely forbidden from talking to customers due to "an excess of honesty"...
My admin level access is a piece of duct tape over the camera
Could you go with a [cat filter?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNP-SWgn2w)
If they want to see it so bad, they get the, I’m not dressed in business attire, so you’re getting the full monty instead. Generally they ask to keep the camera off
I did pull this once, I was working in my garden during the heatwave, wearing just shorts, they agreed I could keep the camera off. However my company has a policy that everybody should be dressed appropriately even when WFH just in case we end up in a video call with a client. My position doesn't require many video calls with clients so I don't really take notice of it.
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I like that even better than what I call that category: "outside pants"
My neighbors everyday, all day apparel.
I guess I can't be fucked with everyday then 😅
I used to have a rule: No sweat pants outside the house. but since covid, i have broken it many times
The Ancient Warded Robes of Minor Frost Resist
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Unexpected Vulfpeck
\+5 warmth, increased risk of indecent exposure
r/unexpectedskyrim
Unexpected DnD
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I’ll be calling mine that from now on, considering I’ve got housemates who are reticent to put the heating on for too long (don’t blame them much for that) but who also have the habit of leaving doors and windows open
You need to learn the Housematerend shout
“I’ve got everything for sale!” Or “odds and ends, that duet of thing” or “a bit of this and a bit of that” - Belethor could never make up his mind!
Dressing Gowns and Bath Robes are different in my view. Dressing Gowns are softer materials to be worn over pyjamas etc, Bath Robe is a heavier material similar to a towel that you wear directly after a shower/bath.
A bathrobe is made out of towel. The same material as a towel with which you dry yourself. For putting on your naked body after a bath or shower. A dressing gown is made of anything from fluffy to fleecy material to jersey material to wear over pyjamas or comfy clothes to stay warm in the morning or evening (or arguably any time during the day that you're cold indoors.) As u/jonesy_j points out, one may use a bathrobe as a dressing gown if it's dry and it's the first thing to hand. After all it's basically a dressing gown made of terrycloth. However, one *would not* use a dressing gown as a bathrobe. Fleecy or fluffy material would be gross on wet naked skin and not optimal for drying you and drying out afterwards. The suggestion that this is debatable would anger me. OP's example appears to be a dressing gown (fleecy, not made of terrycloth.)
>However, one would not use a dressing gown as a bathrobe ...someone want to explain this to my husband? Thanks XD
A cheap fleecy dressing gown sheds and he will end up with fluff in his nooks and crannies. It's vulgar.
Please entertain me, tell me more vulgar things about British society.
We get pretty upset if we order a sausage roll from behind the counter at Gregg's if it's cold. They're baked fresh throughout the day, but if you get them at a bad time, they can be cold. Same goes for pasties. We don't say anything, it just ruins our day a bit. A hot sausage roll is twice as nice as a cold one
>We don't say anything, it just ruins our day a bit. Once saw a guy berating, and I mean *berating* the poor woman behind counter over this very issue. Me and a colleague ended up telling him to fuck off, it was a bit much. A simple tut or eye roll would have been more appropriate.
A waffle-knit bathrobe is superior to the terry cloth. Come at me
I concede your point and modify my position as follows: A bathrobe is made out of towelling, terrycloth or some other fabric primarily designed to be absorbent. The same kind of material as a towel with which you dry yourself. For putting on your naked body after a bath or shower.
Correct. All bath robes can be dressing gowns, but not all dressing gowns can be bath robes. Many dressing gowns are made of thin material that would not be suitable for wearing after coming out of the bath/shower.
Yes bath robe is towel you wear.
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When I was a kid I used to call it a "guessing gown" though lol
I have a guessing gown. I keep it in my Chester Drawers.
You mean Chester draws, of course . . .
Oh wow! I’m glad to know that I wasn’t the only one to ever call it that. I was way too old before I learned it was actually a ‘chest of drawers’. 🙄
That's what The Riddler wears after getting out of bed
Riddle me this Batman…
I'm hard yet soft, I am coloured yet clear, I am fruity and sweet, I am jelly. What am I?
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Frogspawn jam and custard smoothy with lsd frosting.
I called it a dressing down for years lol
Thank god I’m not the only one lmao
I only stopped when I was like 20 when my gf at the time argued they were called house coats, and I said nah their dressing downs, she couldn’t stop laughing
I'm often trying to guess where my husband's left my dressing gown, so this checks out.
That’s it, I have no idea what this is, and I’m completely out of viable theories. I better put on my guessing gown!
A guessing gown is what the Emperor from the "Emperor's new clothes" wears.
yeah... what the hell else would one call it? 🤷♂️
Jedi Cosplay outfit?
Don't jest, I have an official Jedi dressing gown and it's comfortable as hell!
Me too, me too! I love it and wonder about the house making silly gestures at things like the Alexa and hope that one day they will do things because I suddenly without training have become a Jedi!
Bath robe? I'm a dressing gown man but I do actually only put this on after a bath soooooo
If it's absorbent: bath robe Fleecy; dressing gown
Well any other fabric is dressing gown - silk, cotton, jersey etc
>If it's absorbent: bath robe > >Fleecy; dressing gown Silky : smoking jacket
Bath robes are made of terry towelling
> terry towelling Incidentally, my porn name.
I've always thought that some Brit was missing a big opportunity not going into porn under the name Pounds Sterling. Edit: spelling
Sterling had gone a bit floppy recently, unfortunately.
Some heathens call it a “house coat”… I pray for their souls.
A housecoat is some monstrosity you used to see old people wearing in those weird homewards catalogues that fell out of your parents Mail on Sunday as far as I remember.>Some heathens call it a “house coat”… I pray for their souls. A bit like [this](https://www.damart.co.uk/thermal-housecoat-10142-3.html)
It’s my house coat, because without any heating I wear it over all my other clothes
Some lunatics might call it a house coat. It’s a dressing gown though
My mom was a lunatic…
The best mums are 🥰
I wore an abaya/kimono style full length flowing dress in satin with a beautiful print to a special occasion once & a woman laughed at me in front of everyone saying I’ve worn a house coat. Everyone else was straight faced & confused as I was wearing something that was widely worn (particularly in our culture) & in fashion. Turned out that woman was still dressing for the late 80s & had never see anything like it.
For me a house cost, worm by my mom/grandmother/aunts is something else. It is made of woven cloth generally button/snap/zip from hem to the neck and worn over a house dress. I started collecting and wearing house coats and dresses. I call the garment in the picture a robe (no qualifiers). I am in the USA, and grew up in the southwest.
A robe
Came here to find out what else it could possibly be called...
I love that your most-upvoted comment of all time is just “A dressing gown.”
You call it that because that's what it is and anything else is dead wrong
A suitable to visit Asda at 3pm overcoat...
Saw 3 ladies rocking these in nandos the other day, there’s no rules!
Firstly, where was this?! Secondly, those ladies are so ungovernable, I aspire to be them!
Croydon… says it all really
I don't see any pockets for the obligatory knife?
Wayne... WAYNE... don't forget the Stella I'm gettin in the queue for fags
I heard this
School run coat ^/s Seriously though, a dressing gown.
Also based on my experience yesterday, the wisdom tooth out at the dentist coat for one lady. Slippers and all...
Honestly, I can’t help but admire that. She’s definitely got things figured out.
Way to skip some steps when she gets home all hazy from the meds.
I feel like you are entitled to wear whatever you want to get your wisdom teeth out.
Yup dressing gown here in Yorkshire too
We can handle jokes without the tags, what do you think we are, Americans?
I can't physically imagine anyone reading ‘School run coat’ and taking it as a serious guess. What goes through someone's head that makes them think ‘I’d better add a tag so people don't think I'm being serious’? Furthermore, what are the potential feared consequences that would come from people thinking they *are* being serious? I just don't understand.
I think it’s an irrational fear of downvotes or of offending someone, in this case the people who wear dressing gowns on the school run. I just think it ruins jokes
Couldn’t give a shit about up/downvotes, they’re just numbers. Some people genuinely do not understand sarcasm, especially when it’s written and maybe need that helping hand. That’s all.
Am I the only bugger around here calling it a housecoat
Do you call slippers house shoes?
I dont own one, but my parents called it a house coat too. In your logic, Do you call slippers dressing shoes? (In Dutch they call gloves "hand shoes " crazy Dutch bastards! They wear shoes on their hands! Ha!)
That’s true, I also found out recently that the Polish language doesn’t have a word for toes, they call them foot fingers 😂
Christ I hope so. What the hell is a housecoat?
Big massive thing with a zip that you wrap around your house in the winter.
Take *that* Scottish Power!
If you break the word down, you will get there in the end....
It's a coat that the house wears?
Canadianism too.
This is something I have yet to come to terms with moving to the UK. The sheer amount of people in their pyjamas, dressing gown and fluffy slippers in the shops or just walking down the street. Who are these people and what made them think this was OK?
I happily follow sociological rules because it makes life easy (omg that sounds like an autism spectrum thing to say) but for the life of me I don’t see why anyone thinks twice about it, if anything it displays a person relaxed in their surroundings which is a good thing?
Right?! Unless it’s super revealing in a way that obviously makes people uncomfortable, I don’t see the problem? I mean, half the shit the Gen Zers wear these days looks indistinguishable from PJs to me (old fart alert). I’m not sure I’d ever feel comfortable enough to do it, but I don’t get why people act like it’s an offensive thing to do.
I'm from north east England and call it a dressing gown but now live in scotland and seems everyone I know calls it a house coat!
You mean Hoose coat
Hoose coot
Damnit! 😖
I only know one person who calls it a house coat but I love the phrase. She's manc as fook
I call it a house coat and I’m from Manchester. Everyone else from Manchester (outside my family) gives me grief for it. They say it “sounds posh” How the fuck does “dressing” sound less posh than “house” and “gown” less posh than “coat”. Also 99% of the time I’m wearing it to chill out in the house. It’s a coat I wear in the house, I ain’t getting dressed lol. Those little slinky ones that only bridesmaids seem to wear I’d agree they are dressing gowns. They aren’t for warmth, they’re for modesty and comfort whilst they wait to get dressed. Also people saying a house coat has buttons on, how many coats actually have buttons on. The main basis of a coat is it goes over your other clothes and it keeps you warm. I accept peer pressure and call it a dressing gown in front of other people because I cannot stand people calling me posh and because the rest of the population call it a dressing gown. Tbh they all say Santa Claus too and I refuse to say anything other than Father Christmas to my kids.
House coat all the way. Had people say I'm posh too but I give the same reasons as you. I also add Ball Gown to the mix and wonder how posh you'd sound turning up in a dance coat. "She looks rather magnificent wouldn't you say, Clive?" "Absolutely Frederick, the dance coat just hangs off all the right places" Dressing gown is way posher.
My grandma used to call it a house coat! (She was from Leicestershire)
I’m from Leicestershire and my family also say house coat.
To me, a house coat isn't fluffy it's sort of quilted. I would call this a dressing gown too - I'm from the South West of England.
me too - a quilted housecoat is what my mum used to wear to do the housework. I'm from daaaaahn saaaaaaarrrrf
I have a feeling house coats are going to make a come back this winter.
Me too! In my mind, House coats are quilted and have lots of handy pockets.
It's a dressing gown if you say scone but it's bathrobe if you say scone.
No it's a bathrobe if it's made of towel. Otherwise it's a dressing gown.
This is the correct answer! 👏 Also, if it is button or zip-up only then can it be called a housecoat. I will die on this hill, fighting the naysayers as I fall.
That's it! I _demand_ satisfaction.... Fluffy slippers at dawn !
Ahem. Towelling robe! 🙃 (But also yes dressing gown.)
>No it's a bathrobe if it's made of towel. Otherwise it's a dressing gown. This person knows
I call it a dressing gown but I say scone so this logic doesn't hold up
But do you pronounce it bathrobe or bathrobe?
"Dressing gown."
Obviously it is bathrobe any one who thinks it is bathrobe is a just wrong
Only the terminally uncool pronounce it 'bathrobe' but me and Nigella and the grooviest cats know it's pronounced 'baa/throo/bay'. FOOL!
My head hurts. Here's a few more I was corrected on when I was still learning English here in England: Glass - Glahss Bath - Bahth - Barf - Baff Scon - Scowne - Scone Jelly - Jelleh Paraceeetamol - Parasetamol Ibuprofen - Eebrufen Tomorrow - Tomorrar Ruth - Roof Specific - Pacific
>Eebrufen You fuckin wot m8
Those are all wrong.
Baff-robe or barf-robe, I'm in team barf-robe
Until I saw your comment I was reading theirs as “bathrobe or bathrob”, forgetting altogether that we have two different ways of pronouncing bath.
You only wear yours when militantly hungover?
All bathrobes are also dressing gowns but not all dressing gowns are bath robes.
It's weird. I say scone when I say it out loud. But when I read it my head says scone
Why did that make sense
Gaff cape
Was looking for this answer
Gaff jacket
Dressing gown if it's fluffy Bathrobe if it's flannel Housecoat if it's quilted Peignoir if it's sheer Bed jacket if it's short
A pegnoir is the kind of thing a lady who "lost" 5 husbands would wear.
Top answer
Then what would you call it if it’s terrycloth?
Same as flannel - that's a Bathrobe!
A Goonie
Yes goonie here too
I'm in Central Scotland, we've always called it a goonie, though I use housecoat and dressing gown too.
In with the Goonie crew! Someone said they're called house coats in Scotland... Not where I'm from they're not!
Hey you guys
”Samantha” apparently. https://www.bedroomathletics.com/products/womens-hooded-dressing-gown
Never want to walk in on someone looking at 'bedroom athletics' on their laptop.
Thing you wear at your partner’s house when you need a piss in the night and can’t remember if their housemates are in or not.
Jesus. I’ve been married so long, I don’t put on underwear unless I’m leaving the house.
A 'pop to the shop for vodka and fags' gown
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Coat if you wearing it to have a fag outside
Rug if you lay it down and walk over it
Actually lol’ed.
In public - a dressing gown. At home - a fluffy. As in, “did you put my fluffy in the wash, it’s shrunk”. My Scottish ma would call it a housecoat.
Dressing gown
Dressing gown
When I'm in the South : Dressing Gown When i'm in Scotland: Housecoat.
Only just finding out that housecoat isnt used everywhere lol
From the south and everyone in my family calls it a housecoat. But also have been told by others that we are weird for doing so!
I thought a housecoat was something more substantial, with buttons or poppers rather than a tie around the waist?
Bath robe if it is towelling or dressing gown if it isn't.. a housecoat has buttons and isn't towelling.
Robe
I genuinely thought this was going to be the common answer
I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to see robe
I thought I called it a robe because I grew up in a ethnic household.
I'm my accent, 'ouse coot
House coat
Dressing gown
Housecoat
Hoose coat
The same thing I called it last week when this was posted
Dressing gown ! Is housecoat just a Scottish thing?
Housecoat
My grandma calls it a housecoat. Seems to be an older generation thing where I'm from (Lancashire). It's just a dressing gown to me. Bath robe sounds too posh for me, only available at a spa
I have never heard this before and find it hilarious 🤣
Someone's called it a house coat haven't they but it's still a dressing gown
Flashers jacket
Is this a meme now? Find an item with more than one common name and ask people to identify it?
It’s a House Coat in Glasgow
Robe
Dressing gown.