To answer the front door in dressing gown

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So early this afternoon a delivery came for DP. While the delivery guy was making his way up the stairs to the apartment front door DP is frantically rushing to get dressed.

I was confused, the dressing gown was long... What was the delivery guy going to see within the short space of time the time the door was open?

He feels it’s not “decent” I would have just popped my head through and concealed myself behind the door if anything. The whole idea of getting fully dressed seems quite unusual.

So am I being unreasonable or is he?

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest to answer the door wearing my dressing gown.

Having said that, I lived in my dressing gown for what seemed like months when I was on mat leave. I once answered the door to postie and couldn't work out why he was so flustered, took the parcel and shut the door to realise that my dressing gown had slipped, one boob out for all and sundry to see. Well, he would choose to ring the bell mid breastfeed!

To this day, he still cannot look me in the eye 😂😂

i take it OP that you are quite young, as you begin a sentence with, so.
which makes no sense to me, but i notice lots of young people do it.
people here do not seem to have thought of a simple explanation for your partner's feelings/ behaviour.
he is male. the delivery driver is male. this was the afternoon.
i can quite understand that partner may feel embarrassed to be caught in his dressing gown in afternoon, as it may suggest that hanky-panky has been underway. that would be acutely embarrassing to many young men. esp well brought up ones. others who are rougher wouldn't care.

I'm rarely dressed when the postman/delivery drivers call. Dressing gown covers everything and I've probably been up for hours pottering around the house.

@alexdgr8

i take it OP that you are quite young, as you begin a sentence with, so. which makes no sense to me, but i notice lots of young people do it. people here do not seem to have thought of a simple explanation for your partner's feelings/ behaviour. he is male. the delivery driver is male. this was the afternoon. i can quite understand that partner may feel embarrassed to be caught in his dressing gown in afternoon, as it may suggest that hanky-panky has been underway. that would be acutely embarrassing to many young men. esp well brought up ones. others who are rougher wouldn't care.

Oh my goodness.

@alexdgr8 That's quite a big assumption about the OP there. I could make a judgement about you being young/uneducated, seeing as you don't seem to understand basic punctuation; there wasn't even one capital letter in your whole post.

I wouldn't normally comment on this at all, it's just because you made a comment about the OP starting her post with the word 'so'. Her punctuation was much better than yours.

I’d be embarrassed to answer door in dressing down in the afternoon. (Before 9am I think would be acceptable).

Do some of you lot really think the delivery guy gives a shite what your wearing, really ?

We're both totally the same here, we scramble like mad to get dressed! Very funny really. The ensembles we find, so much more comical than our very sensible long dressing gowns!!

This reminds me, once when my little boy was going through a police obsessive phase, he had a dress-up outfit complete with handcuffs. Our window cleaner suddenly appeared one morning, about 11.00. My husband and I hadn't got dressed yet due to a long night up with DS4, who was getting over a bug and was napping. I'm not sure what the window cleaner thought when he found us in dressing gowns with handcuffs clearly on view on our bed where DS left them but I'm guessing it wasn't in our favour! He phones before he comes now too, that hasn't gone unnoticed!

If its early, I will answer the door in my dressing gown with no shame as I work till 10/11PM and dont get to bed till easily midnight so I often dont get up till about 9.30am and by the time the post arrives at 10/10.30 I often havent got round to getting dressed yet.

By mid afternoon I have at the very least put on comfy clothes/clean pjs so that if someone comes to the door I can just swap my dressing gown for a hoodie and not look like I've just rolled out of bed and feel self conscious at the thought of judgement from the postie.

If your DH was self conscious about being seen in his dressing gown he should have either been dressed already or just told the delivery guy to leave things at the flat door and youd pick it up when he went.

Couldn’t give a shit. I’ve been in my dressing gown all day today. On days I do get dressed it’s usually leggings and a T-shirt, other days I’ll shower and then put my dressing gown back on.

I've answered the door in a dressing gown countless times, thought everyone did. My husband used to occasionally as well.

If I was in a dressing gown I wouldn't mind. DP actually forgot himself and answered the door in his pants once! So he sounds the opposite of yours OP!

Personally I despise dressing gowns, I think they should be banned. When I see people in them I think they look dirty and ill. There is not one dressing gown in our house of 7 people. We get up washed and dressed, If someone knocks early we throw on the day before clothes to answer the door.

When I was in hospital one time mil brought me a dressing gown and when I put it on I actually felt dirty and ill. Always feel much fresher dressed and washed.

As for those silky ones, they're horrendous.

I know I'm a minority and I accept my complete weirdness and never comment to others because I know I'm not part of the dressing gown lovers.

Well he’d think I’m indecent then I’m in long night shirts for coolness in the summer.

My weird postman often tries to hit on me, so I happily open the door to him in my v unflatttering dressing gown, looking really unnattractive. Combined with my lockdown greasy hair, it seems to finally be working

The Tesco man would think I was coming on to him, if I answered the door dressed, instead of in my dressing gown 😂 he even recognised the dressing gown when we moved house! "Ah, I know you now, we don't usually deliver out this way. Didn't you live in xxxxxxxx before?"