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What's your version of 'THE DRESSING GOWN OF DOOM'?

127 replies

LoveWillGetYouThere · 29/03/2023 11:01

I'm sat here feeling sorry for myself with a UTI or maybe a kidney infection. I've an appointment in an hour and I was just thinking about how rare it is that I'm poorly to the point where I just need to sleep for a few hours in the day. Then I realised that whenever I'm ill instead of the 'dressing gown of doom' that my husband (and many other men) default too mine is that I take my contact lenses out and only wear my glasses 🙈😂

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Mogloveseggs · 30/03/2023 19:17

I wear dh's dressing gown of doom

tatteddear · 30/03/2023 20:29

Now I want a Boudicca bed!

KathieFerrars · 30/03/2023 20:41

@JudgeJ That is quite some skill you have there!

Sideorderofchips · 30/03/2023 20:50

Pj's and my crochet blanket and pillow

Glorieta · 30/03/2023 21:10

I have a long to the floor cotton old lady nightdress that was pale blue but now so washed out DH calls it the ghost gown.

When I wear that combined with a pair of awful stars and stripes huge pyjama bottoms (to keep my legs warm) purple dressing gown of doom and pink fleece socks you know its bad.

Faircastle · 30/03/2023 22:01

If I'm ill or we're having a cold snap, I have Boudicca's Bed, which is a bunch of faux fur throws on top and makes me feel (and look) like an ancient Celt

@Giggorata I love the image of Boudicca's bed. I sit under a faux fur heated throw thing while crocheting and I look like a Celtic crone regardless of the state of my health. Scáthach's Sofa?

BarrelOfOtters · 31/03/2023 09:53

My fat pants of doom are so old and baggy that you can see DH recoiling from them, which is the intended effect to be fair.

704703hey · 31/03/2023 09:59

Aha, my current dressing gown of doom is being wrapped up on the sofa in a humongous quilt/blanket type thing. Sick.

I was quite irritated with the postman earlier as he banged heavily on the door with a parcel which abruptly woke me up. It's for next door but they're not in.

sashh · 31/03/2023 10:33

I have a number of medical conditions so my dressing gown of doom is what I wear most days.

Joggers and a T shirt. Bra on if anyone is coming to the house.

I only get properly dressed if I am leaving the house.

Dotdotdot19 · 31/03/2023 12:19

The outfit depends on what level of illness

Stage one (mild cold): leggings, oversized band t shirt, huge hooded Cardigan and a scarf with fluffy slippers. Can still open the door and pop out for milk in this but will moan massively about potential death

Stage two (severe cold): old trackie bottoms that I bought when 9 months pregnant with my first born, my old university hoodie, my glasses, my hair in a messy bun and I hide on the sofa snuggles under not one but TWO blankets with cats on them. Will not open the door but can fetch own drink and food

Stage three (might as well send me to the glue factory): trackie bottoms, old maternity vest, no bra, glasses, hair down and utterly unsettled, I dig out my old maternity cushions and wrap myself in them, the aforementioned cat blankets, a duvet and listen to the audiobook of Jeeves and Wooster. At this point my DH should be coming up and recording all last words that i utter while dying. And getting my requests for the upcoming funeral.

SmallAngryPenguinWoman · 31/03/2023 12:42

Mine is not a piece of clothing, but if I have a cold/ flu/ runny nose then I stick tissues up my nose to capture the overflow and just leave them there until all absorbency is gone, then swap for dry ones. 🤮🤧 The Tissues of Terror??

JudgeJ · 31/03/2023 13:36

KathieFerrars · 30/03/2023 20:41

@JudgeJ That is quite some skill you have there!

Easy enough with loose Summer clothing! Unhook, strap down one arm then the other, simple!

BTMadmummy · 02/04/2023 10:29

No bra, pj bottoms and ancient navy zip up hoody.

Tomeeornottomee · 02/04/2023 11:08

The duvet of dread.And the pillow of pain. On the sofa of despair.

Thisisallafiction · 02/04/2023 12:31

Waitingroompurplecup · 29/03/2023 14:03

I have an old fleece that is over 15 years old from my uni days where I volunteered to help at campus visits. It' just really baggy and comfy so I've hung onto it.

Across the back is written in big letters "HELP". So still fit for purpose.

This is BRILLIANT! I want one!

Thisisallafiction · 02/04/2023 12:34

ssd · 30/03/2023 09:47

I'll really need to up my game.
So many of these are just normal hanging round the house looks for me...

Haha same 🤣

Thisisallafiction · 02/04/2023 12:38

I don’t have anything but I’ve only been confined to my bed 3 times in my life and that’s when I know I’m REALLY ill. Once with mastitis, then with pre-vaccination Covid, then a few weeks ago with adenovirus.
When I have a normal illness I’m usually going about my day or migrate to the sofa.
Really need to sort out some illness-specific clothing and rituals though. I feel like it’s a necessity now after reading this thread!

FLDS · 02/04/2023 12:41

The hoodie of misery.

catscatscurrantscurrants · 02/04/2023 14:16

A giant old t-shirt with cats on it and a mismatched pair of pyjama bottoms, hot water bottle and a pink blanket. (I also had a toy called 'the Hospital Duck' - when I had a run of operations coming up, the duck came with me and sat on the bedside chair every time. I was 40!)

nopuppiesallowed · 02/04/2023 14:35

When I'm really ill, my hair looks like Adolf Hitler's on his last day - just the red head's version. With no mascara, my eyes flame red in a sheet white face. SUCH a good look.....

Words · 02/04/2023 14:37

Bra less tits of doom plus glasses of doom, rather than lenses.
Am there at the moment.

nopuppiesallowed · 02/04/2023 14:39

LubaLuca · 30/03/2023 15:13

The poncho of pity. It comes out when I need someone to notice I'm not 100%. It's a weird Mexican design, very 'look at me now'.

Now am going out to buy a poncho of pity because it sounds more attractive than my sick bear pyjamas....

Merryweather80 · 02/04/2023 15:39

I am regularly ill because I have a preschooler and a shit immune system from a condition I have. My go to for illness clothing is a surfy cardigan of not cool (from circa late 90’s and early 00’s) lenses out, glasses of grogginess in, pj bottoms of pitty, with saggy boobs of shame in a cami top, hair in an actual scruffy bun unwashed and as limp as I feel. Then comes the duvet, heated under blanket of woe and my cat. Who possibly is there for the warmth possibly concerned his food source is about to dry up. (And is considering which bit of me to start with fist) Then sleep- whimpering………

Merryweather80 · 02/04/2023 15:43

I forgot the mascara- obviously not taken off my waterproof mascara since the last well day so little crusts of it escape at their will all day and night into my bed. If the mascara is completely gone generally it’s a hospital job. Mascara of misery is a good identifier of illness.

Mercy1968 · 03/04/2023 00:18

I have very soft men s fleece pyjamas with reindeer on.
Fluffy socks.
I tuck myself up on the sofa under this thick purple and lilac blanket with enormous flowers on from my 70s childhood.
It's so comforting as it reminds me of loads of times I was ill as a kid lying under it on the sofa watching The Moomins or The clangers while my dad who was on a 3 day week at the time made me soup.

This isn't in my control but I often have a cat on me. My girl cat loves ill people and will sleep on them all day (prefers people with a fever so she gets the warmth but takes massive offence if you sneeze).

So it's my purple blanket of plague (and I m not feeling too great tonight which sucks as I finished school on Friday and am going on holiday on Wednesday).