Dryrobe W****r

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Am I being unreasonable that I’ve discovered there is a Facebook page taking non consenting photos of lone women and children in dryrobes and mocking them. Or am I a snowflake? I wear one. Whilst I know they aren’t a stylish choice. It’s the most practical thing I’ve owned in years. I would be furious if someone took a photo of me and uploaded it

I agree it’s weird and I would be quite upset if I found myself up on Facebook.

The wolf fleece appreciation society is hilarious but also rude, derogatory and classist.

I think this site is truly horrible and surely you have to be pathetic little
man to waste your time on it.

Fucking love my dry robe.

I do outdoor swimming so do use it for the intended purpose but honestly it's so lovely and warm I use it as a winter coat now.

Don't care what other people think.

Not condoning this group at all. I don't even use Facebook because it's always full of shite like that.

But, what I think is because dryrobes have become a thing of "fashun" rather than practicality and what they were designed for (which was cold water swimmers/surfers etc wasn't it) basically it's become "the mum coat" to own. For £160+. Even though the mums wearing them are literally just going to tesco or on the school run in their crocs and birkenstock closed toe mules with socks.

Meh. I’m a dryrobe wanker and proud of it. Never been wild swimming. Never intend to. But that coat is the best thing I’ve ever bought. I wear it everywhere. Even to Asda. I’m warm and dry wherever I go. Zero fucks given

I once appeared on a Facebook group taking the mick out of women eating on the tube. It was about 2012 and the page has long since gone. It was called something like 'women eating on public transport' or some other unwitty title. I reported it etc.
It was misogynist bullshit, not even hiding the fact it was just mocking women and more often than not, overweight women eating.
I thought to myself at the time, who are these losers setting up these pages to be deliberately snide to women. How pathetic can you get. Same here. Why do people care if people wear a dry robe... these pages speak to a certain type of absolute moron.

I really don’t think that anyone who chooses to wear a dry robe as a winter coat gives a shiny shite about either what they look like, or that people might be taking the piss. 🤷‍♀️

@Sickoffamilydrama
Trying to find a decent waterproof coat that goes below your knees is actually really hard.

Well exactly! And when my dc starts reception in Sept I'm planning on walking everyday so need something that's suitable for a typical northern winter!
Watch me eat my words and il be a DRW come September 😂

But things come in and out of fashion, always have. Look at people walking around with Stanley cups or when everyone at the school run had a mulberry bag. At least dry robes keep people warm.

I’ve never seen a dry robe in use anywhere other than on the beach. And they’re brilliant for that. If anything, hearing about this Facebook group it just amuses me that people can get so riled up about something like that.

Of course they do. No hate to dryrobes. Or any other fashion item for that matter. I just think that's why some people mock others because it's been dubbed a cool influencer type thing.

I think it's a horrible FB group, really bitter and mean. I really wish it was illegal to take someone's photo without their permission, and a further offence to post it online. No one has any privacy these days. I noticed the group when it randomly appeared on my feed. I don't own a dry robe but to be honest I think they sound great and if I had one I'd wear it anywhere, by the sea or not! I love a good practical coat, especially living as far North as I do.

It's mad that people who are doing no harm at all, they are just wearing a certain piece of clothing, are subjected to such bile online. Groups dedicated to people who actually inconvenience others (bad parking, etc) are still a bit pointless (as offenders unlikely to change their behaviour based on a FB group) but they are more understandable. But a group targeting people who wear a waterproof coat, what is the actual point of that. Sad little people with nothing better to do with their time.

I wasn't aware of the DRW phenomena until last year. My kids and I wore our robes to a cold and rainy community event. A rather short chap walked up to me, and in front of my kids called me a DRW. He then walked off sniggering to himself.
I joined the DRW fb page to see if he had taken a photo of me/us, but he hadn't.
I've no issue with people being part of this puerile group. But it's a step too far walking up to women/kids and calling them names. There were plenty of men wearing dry robes at the event, he wasn't brave enough to say anything to them.

It's a really weird thing for people to do, I honestly don't understand why you'd care enough about someone's coat to take a photo.

There are myriad pages and even websites designed to take the piss out of people seen in public wearing all manner of things.

Dryrobes
Crocs
Red Trousers
Bums hanging out of tiny shorts
Fat people doing literally anything.

It's all horrible but taking photos of people in public isn't illegal and as long as posting them online isn't actively encouraging other crimes, thats not illegal either.

Its shit but this is the world we live in.

I don’t care if you’re wearing it after going for a sea swim or to pop to your local Tesco, people taking photos and uploading them are actual dicks. Sort of behaviour I’d be disappointed in my 7 year old for let alone adults! & tbh it only makes me respect the women I see wearing them even more. Because why shouldn’t they wear a fucking coat?

I have 3 dryrobes. My first I got when I first started sea swimming, a boring black. That's now my early morning dog walking coat when it's bitterly cold or raining.
So now i have a jazzy Charlie McLeod robe for winter and a lightweight Regatta Orla Kiely number for summer 😁
I give not one fuck about what anyone thinks. We regularly go for breakfast afterwards or pop into the shop for milk on the drive home, all I've had is smiles 😃

I don't know how anyone can bring themselves to care about what someone else is wearing. It's not like wearing a dryrobe has an impact on other people. It's just a coat. It's not for me personally, but I can see the appeal. They are absolutely everywhere at horse shows and seem to be a sensible choice for the weather/keeping warm 🤷‍♀️

They're coats, why does anyone care if someone is wearing a coat? As for these FB group mocking people, it's past time they were all shut down. It must be a group for deviants, who else would get a kick from photographing women and children going about their business. Something being legal doesn't mean it's right.

Generally, there are no laws against anyone taking photos of people - adults and children - in a public place. No need to make them anonymous either.

It would be a major restriction on our free press if such laws did exist.

The (civil) defamation laws give some recourse if anything's published that's defamatory - e.g. publishing a photo which potentially or actually seriously affects someone's reputation.

I'm a drw, they are amazing for the forest school I attend as my whole body is covered and my clothes underneath are protected. Not stylish, but very practical.

I walk the dogs in a dryrobe and crocs! I don't think I've ever been snapped in them though. I know I look ridiculous but I am ridiculously comfy wearing them so don't really care. I'm not sure it makes it any better than I am actually a long distance open water swimmer 😂

Have noticed a sudden trend of people wearing these all the time now.

I suppose it's better than people wearing their pyjamas and dressing gown everywhere, although I think a lot of people are wearing DryRobes over their PJs and dressing gowns.

I've never seen a wolf fleece before :/

It’s weird. And inappropriate. My sense is it’s mostly people who have a weird obsession with them because they can’t afford one.

Now I wear mine nearly everywhere at the moment (it’s actually not a Dry Robe but a local brand that’s about half the cost). But I literally swim in the sea and in lakes all year round. I did the school run in mine today because I literally came straight from doing laps of a lake in the snow. Dh feels anxious about it though because he thinks it’s socially unacceptable of me and he gets anxious about things like that. 😂

But mostly it’s warm and I’m off work with cancer and I can’t afford to be buying another coat, so I wear the nice warm one I have. I did see someone wearing one to a wedding though (not on the beach, in a village church) and even I did laugh at that, but I bet they were warm!