Housecoat vs Dressing Gown

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There's a post doing the rounds on facebook about how dressing gown is the right way to say it.

I know that house coat used to be a thing and stuff but I call it both a house coat and a dressing gown interchangeably.

What do you call it? (And where are you from incase that changes it?)

house coat i am in scotland but my youngest son who is autistic tells me technically its a bathrobe he says origanaly they were used after you came out of the bath first worn in the year whatever i switched of then .to me its a house coat .he corrects me everytime i say i need to wash said garment

That is a dressing gown. I live in the SW.

This is a housecoat.

It's a dressing-gown. (Or robe). South coast.

These are housecoats:

The Hilda Ogden thing that you're all talking about is a pinafore / pinny / overall

@HemanOrSheRa where is that from please? I want it bad.

Unless on a bin run.

Dressing gown - South Wales.

Housecoat my grandmother used to wear over her clothes for cleaning. Wouldn't be seen dead in one of those instead I have quite a collection of aprons

I just googled '70's household work overall' and that popped up along with a whole load of other photos. I work with older people - the women I visit who are in their 80's/90's pretty much all own a 'housecoat' like that or the gingham check variety. They call them housecoats.

Housecoat (Scotland) don't know anyone that calls it a dressing gown !

Yes, I seem to remember Hilda called hers a pinny, but to me it was a housecoat. (Stan wore stripy pyjamas, I seem to remember)

Housecoat - Scotland

A dressing gown now but my older relatives call it a house coat (and always have) and I always called it a house coat as a child. We're in Ireland.

Dressing gown - North Wales

My mum calls it a housecoat, Yorkshire and NW and in her 70s. I always used to call it a dressing gown but now, living in the USA, I have to call it a robe otherwise the shop assistants look at me like when I ask where they might be found. They usually follow up with "I luurve your accent, where's that from?"

Dressing gown - Essex

House coat - 1937

My mil bought me housecoat for my birthday when I was 23 (it was not nearly as nice as the ones in the link upthread) my work colleagues didn't believe me so I took it in to work for them and they made me swear to take in every present they got me after that, they were not disappointed

Dressing gown - Scotland.

Dressing gown, County Durham

These would be housecoats to me. 1970s in all their glory . Sorry, I can't do clicky links.

Dressing gown - I'm from Cumbria but now live in Ireland & it's a dressing gown in both places.

I think of a housecoat as a cotton thing with sleeves, worn to do the housework back in the 1950s.

Is it wrong that I kind of want a flowered nylon housecoat/pinny now? Think how useful over work clothes in the am while getting small dc ready. Worth £20 I think?

Yes, it's very wrong. Avert your eyes from the polyester monstrosities this minute!

West African friend calls a dressing gown a morning robe.
For me bathrobe is the towelling one with a tie belt I put on when wet after bath or shower. Dressing gown is the thick cuddly one with a tie belt which goes over pjs or nighties to keep warm.
I dimly remember long ago aunts having housecoats which were often quilted, fitted, and buttoned, they had no tie belt.

I'm I bit of a housecoat snob.

Zip up over buttons.
No slanty pockets.
No dangly ties or stupid bungee plastic bits.
Nothing too flammable

Don't knock it, nothing beats hoiking ones bosom in ones housecoat.

Dressing gown, although DP has taken to calling it his Hangover Jacket

Dressing gown, originally from Wales, to me a housecoat is quilted and buttons down the front