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?)

Housecoat- Scotland

Dressing gown.

Mine is a 'fluffy' or dressing gown. (Scotland)
My grandad always called it a housecoat tho (also Scotland.)

House coat - thick fluffy one for slobbing around the house/shoving on over clothes if cold

Dressing gown - light thin one for wearing over undies whilst faffing around doing hair & make up

Goonie - nightdress worn to sleep in (never heard goonie used for anything else)

Pinny - Hilda Ogden thingy

Fife, Scotland

My mother used to have a housecoat which was a button through kind of dress/overall thing for doing housework in. I was given a quilted thing (like a Brentford Nylons bedspread) which she called a dressing gown but looked very similar only smaller.

My dressing gowns are white towelling bathrobes so are mostly called bathrobes and sometimes called dressing gowns. My summer ones are thin cotton fabric and are called dressing gowns.

Surrey/London areas.

Dressing gown- Liverpool

Ndn calls it a housecoat, she is 35.

Housecoat Scotland