Sunday, 4 November 2018

To gape or not to gape


I am thinking of buying one of these Moroccan Winter Jelabas to wear around the house as a dressing gown. What do you reckon?

They are made from a wool felt and were meant for outdoor use, but I still retain a degree of self respect so It would remain indoors where I can look like a twat in the privacy of my own home.

I could not bring myself to wear a satin dressing gown of the sort favoured by Sherlock Holmes - even indoors - but I sometimes find myself hankering for a hooded towelling one which nobody but H.I. would bat an eyelid about. The trouble with things labelled 'dressing gowns' is that they have no buttons, just a belt which you are supposed to tie around your waist to minimise the danger of exposing yourself through the front of your pyjamas  - which have no zip. The things above are just pulled over your head.

I had a young friend who I once - somehow - got into a conversation with about mens underpants. She said she preferred boxer shorts. Since she didn't wear mens underwear I asked her why, and she said "Because they gape"

My mind was in a whirl...
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29 comments:

  1. Rachel Phillips4 November 2018 at 05:13

    If it is no gape you are after then one of these is your answer. You will be able to grope your way up from the bottom instead.

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    1. Tom Stephenson4 November 2018 at 06:07

      It has slit pockets. I could just fumble about as usual.

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  2. John Going Gently4 November 2018 at 06:48

    Very Alec Guinness (. May the force be with you)

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  3. Cro Magnon4 November 2018 at 07:18

    I have one in black. It is quite heavy, very warm, and serves as a Mad Monk outfit for Halloween. It would suit you!

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  4. The Weaver of Grass4 November 2018 at 10:57

    I must say i really rather fancy one too - where would I buy it - and let's face it a bit of gape is neither here nor there for me.

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    1. Tom Stephenson4 November 2018 at 12:01

      Sometimes difficult to avoid. If you want one I'll send you a link Weave.

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  5. Jacqueline @ HOME4 November 2018 at 11:05

    I think you should get one in black .... and, could we have a photograph of you modelling it .... pretty please ?! XXXX

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  6. Pipistrello4 November 2018 at 14:12

    I have one in a peculiar green. While sold to me as wool, I discovered upon wearing it that although warm, the static electricity it generates proves otherwise! It is, nonetheless, extremely handy for throwing on when you need to look like you're dressed for the day - a robe will just say you haven't got out of your pj's.

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    1. Tom Stephenson4 November 2018 at 14:38

      If mine isn't wool, it's going straight back. I don't want to be shrink-wrapped in a fire.

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    2. Bea4 November 2018 at 18:01

      'Shrink-wrapped in a fire' made me laugh out loud.

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    3. Tom Stephenson5 November 2018 at 03:03

      I mean it seriously, though!

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  7. Rachel Phillips5 November 2018 at 04:01

    Best not go to the door in it, you might be mistaken for an illegal immigrant.

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  8. Britta5 November 2018 at 06:34

    Wow, I love them - and they look warm!
    Had I but known - I just bought a thick long wool cardigan with a hood - for the hours when I sit at my desk in the bay window room.
    Yours looks so wonderful Balzac-ish! (Though: his dressing gown had a gap, I think.)
    To your beautiful hair you should choose black - and as I see in your comments: you have?

    And as dear Emily Dickinson said to a gap:

    To fill a Gap
    Insert the Thing that caused it—
    Block it up
    With Other—and 'twill yawn the more—
    You cannot solder an Abyss
    With Air.

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  9. libby5 November 2018 at 10:21

    I imagine it might be itchy? hope not......would you wear it over something or not?

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  10. A Heron's View5 November 2018 at 20:24

    Pyjamas !
    Do people still buy and wear them. I thought that they had gone out of fashion.

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    1. Tom Stephenson6 November 2018 at 03:15

      I don't wear them, but I do own a very 1930s pair which I must dig out and wear for the Winter.

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  11. Avus6 November 2018 at 00:45

    Hello Obi-Wan!
    I am pretty bald and in cold weather, around the house and working in the garage, I wear an embroidered skull cap (what the Victorians called a smoking cap). I think your gaping jelaba looks good but might be a hazard for me when working with electrical tools like grinders and drills.

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    1. Tom Stephenson6 November 2018 at 03:19

      I was thinking of those embroidered hats when I mentioned the Sherlock dressing gown. I can never work out why you had to dress head to foot in decorated satin in order to smoke. Stylish though. I would wear hats more often if it were not that I have a very thick head of hair. I don't intend to operate machinery in the robe.

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    2. Rachel Phillips7 November 2018 at 00:22

      These robes are not flowing. In fact would be less dangerous when using drills and grinders than a gaping flap

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