Wearing Robes

[poliphilo]

So how do you gals manage those flowing garments you wear? Here I am, with a fleece draped round my shoulders- and everywhere I go I'm pursued by the clatter of ornaments and the slithering to the floor of books and papers. Why, yesterday I got so tired of picking up a certain set of papers-  they were lying on top of a pile of magazines that is balanced on top of the magazine rack because- well- every other surface is occupied-  that I finally snapped and tidied them away out of sight.   I used to know where I ended and the environment began, but now my contours are all wafty and I don't. 

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Ah. Flowing garments are not always fun. Keep working on it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's clearly an art to it...

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

My solution: only wear them where there is a lot of room to move.

Modern houses (and my paper-stacking habits) do not lend themselves to flowing garments of any sort. So, I avoid them. My home is tiny and filled with books and ornaments- not to excess, but enough to make navigation hazardous to the more delicate in their number.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What I really need to do is tidy up.

Our living space- like yours- is full of stuff. I don't know where it all comes from. (I do really).

[nostoi.livejournal.com]

I don't have flowing garments but I do have expressive arms which have much the same effect. My husband calls me Mrs Windmill.

BTW I had a dream last night where I checked LJ and you had just posted an entry about your fetishes. (?????) There was BDSD-u, DART and something else which incorporated SM.

I was thinking I recognised DART....and it's this: http://www.dart-tag.co.uk/nossl/home.php Each to their own I suppose! LOL

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ha!

And I don't even live in the right part of the country to indulge a DART fetish....

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I wear jeans and tee shirts or tucked-in blouses most of the time. Flowing garments are nice enough in their place, but their place is not in my apartment.
I get dressed up for Sunday church and for the theater or other evening out. Oh, yes, and also when I go to visit Mom, because she likes to see me looking "nice".

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Very sensible.

I'm afraid I must look ridiculous. This is a black shawl/blanket with little skull and cross-bones all over it- a pirate fleece.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Sounds cute! I have a nice wool shawl a friend gave me for Xmas several years ago, but I find it clumsy to wear if I am doing anything other than watching TV - it even gets in the way of page turning when I am reading.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Shawls are definitely not designed for anyone leading an active life.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Haha: a delightful image.

Mostly I worry these days, with stairs to habituate for the first time in years, about a robe's sash tripping me up as I go up or down--it's all too easy to imagine myself lying on the tile at the bottom of the staircase, being found by--oh, dear.

Is it cold where you are?

Maybe you need a tidy snug sweater--jumper?--instead! With pockets for papers and pens.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's very cold.

The thing is we've not turned the heating on yet. We're economising.

I already have a sweater on- and a body warmer. The fleece is only the outer layer.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

What are you wearing? A flowing fleece dressing gown?
Or is it draped like a shawl? I never could manage anything like that. One needs to be very aware of their immediate surroundings at all times when wearing things like that. I'm just...not.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This is a blanket, which I'm wearing like a shawl. It's lovely and warm. The ornaments etc will just have to take their chance.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I wear shawls that are fleece triangles. I bought a piece of fleece that was square, cut it on the diagonal, and hemmed up the rough edges. I keep it pinned with a brooch at the front, just like the White Queen in Alice.

When I need to control the flow, I put an apron on over it and tie the flowing bits under the apron strings. Works for me. I'd never wear an untrammeled shawl while cooking. Danger, danger.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Those are excellent tips.

My fleece is square- and covered with adorable little skulls and crossbones

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Less clutter! Get that minimalist look in your house and you could gravitate to a ballgown!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I aspire to minimalism. I think it's a great look. Plain walls, wooden floors, nothing on display but the occasional exquisitely chosen art work or arrangement of pebbles, but I can't achieve it. I'd love to sweep up all the clutter in this house and throw it in a skip, but I can't- the clutter would be unhappy, it might even hold a grudge...

[sovay]

So how do you gals manage those flowing garments you wear?

Er . . . I don't. When it gets cold enough, I wear sweaters and extra shirts. Best of luck.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ailz had the heating come on for about half an hour this evening. It lifted the temperature to 18 degrees and I was roasting. Phew, turn the bloody thing off....

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I hope that's 18 C, right?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It is.:)

[oakmouse]

The same way that nobles became accustomed to wearing a sword --- practice, practice, practice. And even then, you occasionally foul yourself up on something and hear the *crash* *tinkle* that tells you you were a bit too close.

Given what the swoopy item is that you're wearing, you might find it useful to stitch on a couple of strategically-placed hooks and eyes, or even snaps. We have a blanket that dates from the mid-70s craze for wearing blankets around the house on a cold evening, and it has snaps placed to allow you to fold the top two corners forward around your shoulders, snap them into place to make a sort of sleeve arrangement, and then snap the front gap closed. You end up wearing this thing that's sort of halfway between a tube and a shawl, open at the bottom, and surprisingly comfy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Those are handy suggestions. Thanks.

It's true- you get used to wearing anything; but it takes time. there was a film-maker- was it Kubrick?- who insisted his actors wore their period clothes for weeks before filming began- so that they got used to moving around in them.

[oakmouse]

You're welcome!

I can't remember which director it was either but I've always thought it was a brilliant idea.

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

I have just started wearing my long baggy cardies as it is colder now, and it always takes a week or two to adjust my movement to compensate for the extra swirl. My ornaments are all out of immediate danger, thank goodness, but paperwork goes flying, and door handles are my cardies' mortal enemies, as they grab at them while I am sweeping through doorways! Not a good move with two hot cups of tea in one's hands! ;-)
Hopefully you will learn your new dimensions very soon.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

One thing you really have to look out for is candles.

Our ancestors ran a terrible risk- what with the flowing garments and the naked flames.