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Dryrobe W****r

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CareerChange24 · 07/02/2025 15:48

Am I being unreasonable that I’ve discovered there is a Facebook page taking non consenting photos of lone women and children in dryrobes and mocking them. Or am I a snowflake? I wear one. Whilst I know they aren’t a stylish choice. It’s the most practical thing I’ve owned in years. I would be furious if someone took a photo of me and uploaded it

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argyllherewecome · 07/02/2025 18:19

I've seen people here mocking others wearing them, as in "you know the type of people who wear a Dry Robe in the middle of town..". People should wear whatever they want.

Mountainfrog · 07/02/2025 18:16

Does it not just reflect the fact we’ve only had about 4 dry days since October… and pretty much all wet weather coats which claim to be waterproof leak at the seams. I don’t own a dry robe btw but I do see the appeal

(also have a soft spot for a wolf fleece)

Octavia64 · 07/02/2025 18:16

I have a cheap knock off.

There's lots of brands out there now that are a lot cheaper than dryrobe. Even Lidl do them.

To a pp, yes they are lined with fluffy stuff. The idea is that you can get out the sea in your swimsuit, then put the dry robe on. They are then big enough you can get changed inside them without flashing anything.

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CareerChange24 · 07/02/2025 18:14

Someone asked are they like a towel…I went to the doctors. Wasn’t feeling my best and she examined me. She said right. Take your towel off. The shadiness when she said it 😂😂 thought it was funny.

I can attest they are fully fleeced and towel like. The thickness of a towel. The softness of fleece. And when I went swimming in the sea and sat on the sand to dry off. It didn’t get all clogged up like you’d think inside with sand. I highly rate them.

DRW’s have a certain personality someone has put? I will wear that personality like a badge of honour. The fact I’m too old to care what I look like as long as I’m warm and happy. And the fact in may not be illegal. But morally. To think a man has ten photos on his iCloud of a child and lone women. It’s beyond creepy and not in the slightest bit funny.

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toolate2 · 07/02/2025 18:14

I don't give a flying fuck what people think of me in mine. It is the best investment in clothing I have ever made. Early morning wet cold walks with the dogs are really not a chore any more. I wear mine mainly to walk the dogs but also on the school run if it's wet and I am waiting at the gate. I would nip to the shops in it as well if it was chucking it down. I would rather be warm and dry and looking sexy and wet.

Daisymae55 · 07/02/2025 18:12

I’ll be honest, my husband and I are always judging people who wear them. Quietly to each other.

That being said, the fact there are people who are photographing others to notch about on social media, thats just pathetic. I’m definitely judging them way harder than I judge the dry robe wankers.

Also it’s just creepy that people do this.

HoraceCope · 07/02/2025 18:11

HoraceCope · 07/02/2025 18:04

the red trousers are only pictures of pen allowed

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aargh only pictures of MEN are allowed

Finetoday · 07/02/2025 18:07

I’ve been in both of the groups mentioned, and admit I thought they were funny for about 3 days.
Then it’s just boring run of the mill bullying so I left.

BreezyScroller · 07/02/2025 18:06

NooNakedJacuzziness · 07/02/2025 16:02

You can only be a dry robe wanker if you're wearing one miles from the sea, I.e in Asda. Plus points for wearing with crocs. And it's definitely not just women they target!

Agree it's a bit mean but all faces have to be blanked out.

what a stupid idea. I am really torn between laughing or feeling pity for those people on these insulting groups who can't have much of a life.

Dry Robe are expensive, comfy, waterproof and warm. WHY would you not wear them whenever you feel like it if you have one?

A wet suit or a pair of skis, you would have a point. As you don't wear the dry robe IN the sea, no reason whatsoever not to wear them.

The only pathetic ones would be people wih a dry robe in the car who wouldn't dare wearing them in public in case it gives a bored online keyboard warrior something to bitch about.

If we start asking for the opinions of losers to get dressed in the morning, we'd never leave the house 😂

Wemaybebetterstrangers · 07/02/2025 18:05

You just know that anyone that starts / contributes to a page called Dry Robe Wankers is a pasty faced very skinny or potbellied friendless misogynistic male loser. Bless them if that’s what they need to do to make their sad little lives meaningful!

(they probably couldn’t afford one either)

HoraceCope · 07/02/2025 18:04

CerealPosterHere · 07/02/2025 16:06

I agree it’s a weird thing to do, taking and posting the photos. There is or was also a similar site for men in red trousers. Don’t think they blanked the faces out either.

the red trousers are only pictures of pen allowed

bugalugs45 · 07/02/2025 18:03

I've got the cheap knock off version from Aldi , £40 I think it was just before Xmas ,
I couldn't care less what people think , I Iove it for dog walks .
Maybe I'll appear on the imposter dry robe wanker page , I can only hope 🤣

SecondMrsTanqueray · 07/02/2025 18:00

Whilst I think the piss taking is funny, the actual act of bothering to take a photo of a stranger is odd.

I sometimes wonder if people recognise themselves. A bit like when they do a news item on obesity and use footage of fat people walking along (not showing faces). Must be mortifying.

HarperStern · 07/02/2025 17:58

I would never stop taking pictures if I had to take pics of every person I saw in a dry robe (live in a seaside town). Coincidentally I saw a chap in a humdinger of a wolf fleece this morning and noted to myself that I hadn't seen one in ages. What is the new wolf fleece, I wonder?

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CareerChange24 · 07/02/2025 17:55

latetothefisting · 07/02/2025 17:32

exactly.

" Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
"Take photos of random strangers wearing warm coats while going about their daily lives, and upload it to a website with a "witty" caption to mock them..."

I think I'd get more satisfaction, amusement and intellectual stimulation from picking my toenails. I don't know about "furious," though, I think I'd just feel a bit depressed that so many people had literally nothing better to do.

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Maybe hyperbolic with the furious. But I wouldn’t be happy if I caught someone taking sneaky photos. Just plain weird in my world.

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Stafanko · 07/02/2025 17:55

Totallymessed · 07/02/2025 17:52

It's might be legal but taking photos of strangers to put on the internet for people to laugh at is shitty behaviour. Particularly pictures of children.

It might be against Facebook's t+cs I guess, but I can't imagine they'd do anything about it, they tolerate far worse stuff. Scummy company, still can't believe Nick Clegg went to work for them- I guess everyone has their price

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Oh yeah it's definitely arsehole behaviour

MrsMoastyToasty · 07/02/2025 17:53

Let's start a wanky mens hairstyles site.
I would start with the mullet and the man bun.

Sneezeless · 07/02/2025 17:52

I'm going to buy a wolf fleece now.

MyUmberSeal · 07/02/2025 17:52

NooNakedJacuzziness · 07/02/2025 16:02

You can only be a dry robe wanker if you're wearing one miles from the sea, I.e in Asda. Plus points for wearing with crocs. And it's definitely not just women they target!

Agree it's a bit mean but all faces have to be blanked out.

This. A criteria has to be met before one can be officially declared a dry robe wanker.

Totallymessed · 07/02/2025 17:52

Stafanko · 07/02/2025 17:34

It's actually not illegal at all to take someone's picture in a public place and distribute it elsewhere. Even if people are identifiable. I'm not sure you could call wearing a coat in public 'a vulnerable situation'.

To be clear I'm not saying I agree with it, I think it must be full of sad people with too much time on their hands. But it's not illegal.

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It's might be legal but taking photos of strangers to put on the internet for people to laugh at is shitty behaviour. Particularly pictures of children.

It might be against Facebook's t+cs I guess, but I can't imagine they'd do anything about it, they tolerate far worse stuff. Scummy company, still can't believe Nick Clegg went to work for them- I guess everyone has their price

ByWaryCrab · 07/02/2025 17:50

Stafanko · 07/02/2025 17:46

It's not illegal to take pictures of children in public (weirdly). Obviously if people were changing then yes that would be different.

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They were, all wiggling in their towels at our vehicles. When I moved to take his camera he shot off.

Figgygal · 07/02/2025 17:50

I must ask the wearers What is wrong with a decent coat?

Lemonyfuckit · 07/02/2025 17:46

I think it says everything about the people doing this and nothing about the people wearing dryrobes. How weird (and creepy and pathetic) to take photos of strangers and upload them to a page to mock someone for what they're wearing. Continue wearing your dryrobe, it's very practical whether you've been for a swim or not!

Stafanko · 07/02/2025 17:46

ByWaryCrab · 07/02/2025 17:43

I meant association with washing bathing changing swimming. And if it’s minors or adults with disabilities, sick or elderly people it is. Have had two instances of this to deal with in the out doors, students changing after canoeing and students drying after stream walking. Bad. These guys are bold, they don’t care that an adult is remonstrating with them, they just keep clicking….shameless.

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It's not illegal to take pictures of children in public (weirdly). Obviously if people were changing then yes that would be different.

Movinghouseatlast · 07/02/2025 17:45

Yes, it's awful, pathetic really.

If you spend £150 on a coat to wear after swimming I don't understand why wearing it at other times is so wrong. I only swim in the sea once a week, but it's actually a great raincoat!+

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