To buy a dry robe as a winter coat?!

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OP, I'd never heard of the dry robe before now, can't see anything wrong with it, if you like it, get it.

I'm also on the lookout for the perfect winter coat, so thanks for all the previous recommendations.

I made a list for myself but thought to list them here if anyone else is looking:

Rainsisters
Craghoppers
Regatta Romine or Freyla
Regatta Eloria
Seasalt Janelle
Mountain warehouse
Didriksons Erika parka
Tesco
North Face down-filled parka
Lands End Squall
Animal
Oodie
Reincoat Pro by Reinwear
Helly Hansen
Arc'teryx
Patagonia
Paramo
Schoffel, Fjallraven
Snuggz Unisex
Red Equipment
Jaeger from M&S
Cotton traders
North Ridge
New Forest Ladies Arctic parka
Willliam Powell
Le Mieux Anya
Sweaty Betty longline parka
Rab Valiance down parka
Roxy
Equidry
Wild & Free
Element Karbon
Bench
Merrel long puffer coat
Columbia
Nexus
Delta Roam
Osprey
Aldi
White Stuff Sloane
Red Adventure
Stable Skin
Trespass
Vinted for cheaper versions

Well I live here now and it's both the mildest and wettest climate in the UK I have lived in due to being Oceanic.
Yorkshire and the NE are colder but drier.

YANBU to buy a drying robe. YABU to buy a crap one. You need Red Equipment, Equidry or similar. I have a Red Equipment one and it is excellent.

I don’t particularly like the style, but they are so practical. I use mine on the school run. They are warm and waterproof that’s all I really care about, couldn’t care less if anyone else liked it.

My DS has one for school and it’s great. It rains here all the time and they play out whatever the weather so I know he’s going to be dry and warm.

It doesn't put me off because people make fun of others. I call myself a dry robe wanker. Happy to enjoy the benefits of swimming in a lake every week, if people want to mock me that's their problem.

I use it for actual swimming. The Regatta one is more than adequate.

I got a Didriksons parka in the sale last year, cheaper than a full price dry
robe and I think it’s ruined me for any other coat now 😅

Get the seasalt coat!!

i love my waterproof from Costco. Maybe not the most stylish but totally waterproof, warm lined, really good hood and long enough to go below the top of wellies (I’m not very tall) so I’m bone dry when I get back. Can’t say the same for the dog.
North west based I.e rains ALL THE TIME

Can I ask the name of the style?

I was going to say this, it finishes too short so doesn’t keep your head dry

Also live in the SW you’re not wrong

@Featherhorn yes, very, it’s my winter coat, far too warm for May-October. It’s a substantial and well constructed piece of clothing.

If you like it then buy it.

i have a similar one which I use for a work. I work in an outdoors early years setting and it gets bloody cold, I layer up underneath it and it keeps me warm and dry when out in the garden with the children.

i sometimes wear it after work to pop into the supermarket, I don’t give a shit what anyone thinks.

Just brought one on Amazon for walking to the lesiure Centre for swimming and Aqua aerobics when the weather turns. It was £40 and if I dont like it I can just return it in Asdas.

North Face Arctic parka here, always warm and dry

I think if it works for you then go for it.

The only coat I've ever been properly warm and dry in in the UK is my Didriksons one - at full price they are expensive but last forever and you can get good second hand ones on Vinted.

Did anyone post this already? There is an existing parody rap song about dry robes

I live in the south west and your account of the weather sounds a bit dramatic. That aside, it’s not that they look wanky, just awful. How do you think people coped before dry robes?! Suddenly people are making out that a warm and waterproof coat doesn’t exist.

Get a slimline one - these are fab: https://share.google/XmEJcU0a55BfU5pdc

Aurora Extreme Womens Down Waterproof Jacket | Mountain Warehouse https://share.google/DcKYZo1wQFDXzHNnP

I have this one - it's super cosy and very dry. Still going strong three years in. Currently on sale for a pretty reasonable price for something that will get daily use!

OP, I have many coats, I am a coat person. I need to be as I live on the West Coast of Scotland.

I have the Seasalt Janelle, & another I can't rem the name of. I also have a totally waterproof Landsend one I got in the sale & is great for work. I have an incredibly useful hooded, waterproof mac from M&S. I have various waterproofs for hiking/walking. However, my changing robe is the one I reach for again & again on the school run/ weekends. I have the Orla Keilly with Regatta from 2 seasons ago. I have never had more compliments for any item of clothing I've ever owned. It's slimmer than a Dryrobe & super cosy. I bought it originally for camper vanning & wild swims whilst we're away, but I do use it a lot. It looks good with cropped jeans & boots & also with trainers for the weekend. I never thought I'd say that, but there we are.

There's a FB group called Dryrobe Wankers I think.

I think the hate comes from people wearing them pretending they've just been for a cold water swim or an ice plunge when the most they've done is gone to ASDA.

I ordered one in the sale last year, but my usual size was a bit neat. It was fab & I reluctantly returned it. I aim to HUNT one down this year for a sale price!

Not that I need another coat 🫣.

I alsp picked up a fab lightly padded, long coat from Zara last year- double zipped, great hood, high neck, throw-on-able for car/non very heavy rainy days. I'm tempted to try a waterproof spray on it...