Its a housecoat

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Dressing gowns are silky and posh like Hugh hefner style. Warm fluffy housecoats are housecoats not dressing gowns.....

Not in my house.

Well my nan wore a "housecoat" and it was more like a thinnish cotton coat you wore while cleaning to protect your other clothes so I'd disagree.

Northerner?

Only if you're Nora Batty.

agree House coat is fluffy and dressing gown is silky

Housecoats were worn over dresses by women in the first half of then29th century to keep their clothes clean whilst doing housework.

Im 62, I remember 2 neighbours wearing them.

Housecoats have buttons, are loose enough to wear over your regular clothes and designed to protect them.

So superior aprons rather than warm and fluffy.

My mum went through a phase of this. She called them her overalls - she looked like Hilda Ogden or Dot Cotton.

I would say that a dressing gown is what you wear between shower and pyjama time.

A housecoat would be something you could wear to open the front door in. Nowadays, we wear tee-shirts and yoga pants when not going out.

Same but my nanna's was shiny as heck quilted nylon. A complete fire-hazard of a thing and she smoked like a chimney in it. A wonder we all survived really.

Housecoat is a 50s floral nylon button down the front monstrosity.
Dressing gown is anything you wear over your PJs, wrap front with fabric belt.
If it’s made of towelling it’s a towelling robe.

A peignoir or robe is silky, worn over similarly flimsy underwear or nightwear.

No a housecoat was an apron I thought, with sleeves

A housecoat is an overall you wear over your normal clothes when you're doing housework.

A robe you put on after a bath or when you get up is a dressing gown.

I quite fancy a proper old fashioned housecoat, handy for when I decide to paint something and not have to get changed into old clothes. Where do you buy them?

Husband calls it a dressing gown. I call it a housecoat. He’s a southerner and I’m Scottish

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Would also like to add an Oodie as I’m wearing one now and it’s almost replaced my fluffy dressing gown which is one of my favourite things.

Agreed.

@Caspianbergthey don’t seem to exist anymore. Even finding a sewing pattern to make one is a challenge!

Ew no. It’s a dressing gown. My dh says “housecoat” and it gives me the ick.

Nope. Dressing gowns are what you wear before you get dressed in your day clothes. They can be fluffy or silky or neither.

Housecoats are worn over your day clothes.

Er, no. Housecoats were like the indoor version of a dryrobe. Ugly and baggy to fit over your clothes to protect them.

Dressing gown is a bath robe - generally towelling, or something put on over nightwear when you need a cup of tea first thing in the morning. Useful if you need to open the door or put the bins out.
Housecoat is an overall that is a dress rather than leg things. Useful when cleaning.
As previous peignoir or negligee is something worn over sexy underwear or chemise and completely unknown in this house.

I am in NE Scotland if that’s relevant

I am northern but there doesn't seem to be a rule in the north. Dh calls it a dressing grown. All my family call it a house coat and friends are mixed.

Yes, so did mine!

Blue, with slightly shorter sleeves if I recall. I would have said nylon, but as this was 60s/early 70s maybe it was more like your description.

That's what I think of if someone says "housecoat".

My dressing gown is fluffy with a hood.

I’m Scottish and don’t know anyone who talks about housecoats. My mum had an orange nylon thing that she wore over normal clothes to do housework / gardening - she called it her ‘peeny’ I think - Scottish for apron.

Dressing gowns go over pjs, or from bath to bedroom.

A pinny (pinafore) is an apron with a bib and a large pocket (and possibly frills).

I still call my aprons, pinnies. (no frills though, and no pockets).