Ode to my dressing gown

[nineveh_uk]

I love my dressing gown. I bought it in Marks and Spencer's for £40 either in the end of 1999 or beginning of 2000, making it unquestionably wear-for-wear the best value garment I have ever purchased. It is magenta, a sort of polyester velveteen, and infinitely nicer than that sounds, for it is tasteful in texture, not garish. It is incredibly washable, so that even I don't iron it. I have worn it every day for about three-quarters of the year* for over twenty years, and it doesn't look like it. It is cosy, it is comfortable, and as last winter I am already throwing it on over my clothes at tea-time quite a lot because I get ridiculously cold**. I can cosplay Nirvana in Fire's Prince Yu in it***, or anyone else who would be swanning round in a swishy magenta robe who takes my fancy. I am writing this post in it. The past 20 months would have been a lot more miserable without it.

My dressing gown, you deserve all my praise! May you last many more years, because I'll never get another quite as good on every front as you have been and continue to be.

*I have other dressing gowns for summer and travel. I like dressing gowns. When I win the lottery I am going to buy a £600 cashmere (woven) one. Also in magenta. I just like dressing gowns.

**Not my thyroid.

*** Though he would undoubtedly prefer a slightly less tasteful version, with more embroidered gold dragons.

Comments

[naraht]

Wonderful! I have a Toast dressing gown (£50 on sale in 2015 or so) of which I'm very fond, but it's cotton so it's not particularly warm.

If I won the lottery I would buy this: https://store.melintregwynt.co.uk/dressing-gown-collar-lagoon-28832.html

[azdak]

In fairness to Prince Yu, the more embroidered gold dragons the merrier.

[white_hart]

I have an M&S dressing gown of a similar vintage (Christmas 2001, I think), though mine is pale blue towelling. I have always kind of longed for something fabulous and Chrestomanci-ish in silk but towelling is definitely cosier and more practical.

[antisoppist]

The posh shop in the village has some amazing kimono dressing gowns and when I am rich I shall buy all of them and float around in them but they would not be as warm as yours.

[tollers_and_jack]

I'm so happy for you! Mine is a fluffy dark blue ond from costco,dark enough to disguise its fluff factor and v warm (I do steal my partner's lovely woven cotton one though)

[clanwilliam]

I had a lovely men's fleece M&S dressing gown for over 20 years, but it did not make the cut on the move as it really was time for it to go and stay on a farm in the country.

Currently have a Debenham's John Rocha that I got in a charity shop for £8.

[pensnest]

My brother gave me, and my Beast, gigantic fleece dressing gowns for Christmas many years back. They are amazingly warm and utterly unstylish, but they fit over *everything*. We could probably both fit into one. My Beast wears his beige one around the house constantly, whereas I generally prefer to moan about being cold, but I will put my PINK one on at need.

A good dressing gown is a wonderful thing.