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A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment of various types. Robes are worn as part of the academic dress of faculty and students for ceremonial occasions such as convocations and graduations, as part of the professional attire of judges, barristers and other professionals, as religious dress by clerics, choristers, monks and others in various faith traditions, and as part of the official dress of peers and royalty. Informally, a robe is a garment such as a bathrobe worn chiefly in the home. A robe is distinguished from a cape or cloak by the fact that it usually has sleeves.
A robe is distinguished from a cape or cloak by the fact that it usually has sleeves.
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The ceremonial robe is clothing as office. Academic robes grade their wearers by colour, facing and sleeve shape, so a graduation procession can be read at a glance; judicial robes strip away personal dress so the court speaks through its officers; religious robes mark orders and seasons in their colours and cuts; and the robes of peers and royalty, worn with coronets and orders on state occasions, are the fullest survival of dress as rank. In every case the looseness is the point: a robe covers the clothing beneath completely, replacing the individual's outfit with the dress of the role, which is why the same basic garment serves universities, courts, churches and thrones, and why storytellers dress wizards and magical characters in robes, the costume of authority detached from any real office.
The house robe keeps the construction and drops the ceremony. A bathrobe is a wrap-front robe in towelling cotton, made to be put on wet from bath or shower, belted with a sash tie, with patch pockets and a shawl or hooded collar; dressing gowns in silk, satin and brushed cotton serve the same place in the morning and evening routine in finer cloth. Robes for home wear are sold by ordinary clothing sizes with a deliberately generous cut, long or short by preference, and are cared for as their fabric dictates, towelling washed hot like towels, silk and satin washed gently and kept from rough surfaces. Between the two poles, the professional robe survives in daily use wherever a role is still dressed rather than merely badged, and the word robe itself, applied loosely to any long flowing garment, shows how completely the sleeved, wrapping outer garment has become the default image of formal covering.
A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment, usually with sleeves. The one word covers ceremonial gowns, academic, judicial and religious dress, royal dress, and the informal bathrobe worn at home, all sharing the loose, wrapping cut.
A robe usually has sleeves; a cape and a cloak are sleeveless outer garments fastened at the neck and hanging from the shoulders. Informally, robe is sometimes used for any long flowing garment, though a close-fitting garment such as a cassock is properly a different cut.
The types include academic gowns for convocations and graduations, judicial and barristers' robes, religious robes for clerics, choristers and monks, robes of peers and royalty, and house robes such as bathrobes, in silk, satin and cotton for home wear.