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popped up on my FB feed, love it!
Awesome
...and that is why they invented the intraweb.
Though to me nothing says 'total knobhaed' like baseball caps. Squared if its a 'trucker' type.
Mrs. S and I commented just this morning on how it has become standard uniform for the dog walkers around here.
Though to me nothing says ‘total knobhaed’ like baseball caps. Squared if its a ‘trucker’ type
How weird.
You knows it 🤟
A very useful warm and waterproof coat.
But funny video
Though to me nothing says ‘total knobhaed’ like baseball caps. Squared if its a ‘trucker’ type.
Robertajobb on his way down to Asda...
Funny story - me and my brother got chatting to Adam Hussain and Gray Taylor at a gig in Switzerland when they were performing as Tennents Supermen at a ski / snowboard festival. We saw them at another gig the next night and they recognized us and started buying us loads of drinks. Got pretty wasted and then Adam starts on the joints. He ended up walking out of the venue totally out of it and fell down a steep snowy bank and we had to go and rescue him. The bouncers wouldn't let him back inside at first as they saw what happened and said he was too drunk but then one of the event organizers came over and told them who he was. This was before the days of decent camera phones fortunately 🤣
is that an admission of guilt 🤔
Innocent until proven guilty and all that but:
Sounds like he has means (I'm sure MCTD has access to cash/card.)
Motive; defendant stated, "A very useful warm and waterproof coat."
Opportunity (I'm guessing there are clothing shops near where MCTD lives.)
Pretty damning evidence in all honesty.
looks even better with a fresh pair of crocs
Genius
Essential island wear in winter - going out in the garden with the dogs or cleaning out the chickens. In defence, ours are Moonwrap and wouldn’t dream of wearing it down the Main Street.
Pretty much standard kit at the school drop off and pick up at my daughters school, bonus point for flip flops as well.
This place is a social education. 8 was unaware that dry robes had become casual leisurewear
baseball cap is a boon for a spectacle wearer in rainy conditions. It's not a fashion statement, it just means I don't have to wipe my glasses with an increasingly damp cloth or tissue every couple of minutes.
If I was still stood on football pitch sidelines watching kids all winter I suspect I too would be a dryrobe afficionado. Coupled to an old pair of site boots (slip on, steel toes for lawnmowing protection, liberated from my last job) rather than flip flops though.
This is a new thing to me. But asking colleagues on that there south coast it seems a real thing down there... By Eck.
Will Dry Robe be adopting the rap for their next marketing campaign I wonder?
This place is a social education. 8 was unaware that dry robes had become casual leisurewear
This place is a social education. I was unaware that dry robes existed.
Now I just need to learn why.
Brighton..... Shoreditch-on-Sea.
Mate moved there a few years back. Don't like the place personally. Seems very try-hard, oh-look-i-am-so-alternative-i-blend-in-with-all-the-other-freaks.
baseball cap is a boon for a spectacle wearer in rainy conditions. It’s not a fashion statement, it just means I don’t have to wipe my glasses with an increasingly damp cloth or tissue every couple of minutes.
It's also just completely normal headgear for anyone who wants one.
Walking around thinking everyone is a **** if they're wearning a cap in 2024 is just being a judgemental throbber for the sake of it. But, this is STW and we have more than our fair share of those.
I've been watching people commute in Dry Robes and just 'very long coats' all winter, so roughly the last 9 months. They make perfect sense when the rain is coming down sideways and I'm jealous of their warm, dry arses and legs. It started raining in July and it hasn't stopped since. I'll be buying my own if it keeps up.
Agreed about baseball cap , 68 year old spectacle wearer , also hoodies , skate shoes , jeans like I've worn for over 20 years oh and the cap is a Fox one to complete theSTW flaming from the STW fashionistas out there 😁😁😁😁
looks even better with a fresh pair of crocs
I have a new respect for crocs after hearing this: at about 2.35
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P626JNLrHDs&pp=ygUMU25pZGVyIGNyb2Nz
Though to me nothing says ‘total knobhaed’ like baseball caps. Squared if its a ‘trucker’ type
To quote the Sage of his generation, Mr Pete Docherty in the line from A Time For Heroes...
There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
I don't know if you listen to Elis and John on Five Live on a Friday afternoon (you should do as its bloody brilliant) but they do a mock 'Bergerac' type drama called DI Robbyns, which has a very distinctive theme tune. Goldie Looking Chain did their own version, which is utter genius, and sent it in to them...
The reference to the family stickers on the back of the car was an excellent subtle addition.....
Absolute pandemic of dryrobes here in Devon
Dryrobes is Hove not Brighton Alpin.
Waitrose, please. The IQ reducing baseball cap wearers go to Asda, not gents with style..
Gents with style read the thread before posting. 😁
is that an admission of guilt 🤔
No, but I can see a use for one
Those long padded coats look well cosy, but they don't seem to do them for men. I am less convinced of the practicality of a dryrobe as a coat. Didn't see any about last winter round here.
Baseball caps are great at this time of year with the low sun. Mine's got an Ironman logo on it for maximum knobbishness 😀
Those long padded coats look well cosy, but they don’t seem to do them for men
@greyspoke you could always go ‘Full Wenger’
you could always go ‘Full Wenger’
Wrighty sees that coat and raises you this one:
the plain black one in the video you wouldn't even look at twice if it wasn't for the branding - it's the minging dayglo ones that are the worst.
Layers and windproof outer are the way to do it - my kids don't play football but if I was going to do the parent outdoors standing around in winter job, I'd have a set of waders! super thermal, fully sealed to the armpit
Baseball caps are great at this time of year with the low sun. Mine’s got an Ironman logo on it for maximum knobbishness
Yep been wearing a bump cap in the works van as the sun visors are crap. I look fairly silly, but that is my right as a middle aged man.
My missus has a couple. I will add they are only used when cold water swimming in the sea/pools. You can get changed under them, Nice and long. Not used for anywhere else !
You can get changed under them,
That is their reason for existence isn't it? Not trips to Tesco or walking the dog. BTW are they actually waterproof, i.e. do they keep water OUT?
I never knew they were a thing until recently, saw my first one in the wild today, on the tube on a gloriously sunny day in London..
Ooops. I have the crocs too - camo ones with the fat soles. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to wear them to the shops together with my dryrobe though.
GLC are brilliant.
Those coats that look like 1980’s sleeping bags with the bottom cut out look terrible too. I’d rather be cold than look like an utter ****.
I saw this at our local rugby club.
Nobody in the right mind buys a COAT for a furry dog. These middle-class loons buy themselves a lifestyle accessory for their dogs to wear. It is a bizarre thing.
That's some kind of mongrelpoo. It was actually a spaniel I saw.
Those coats that look like 1980’s sleeping bags with the bottom cut out look terrible too. I’d rather be cold than look like an utter ****.
Or you could buy a German Army convertible sleeping bag/jacket and kill two birds with one stone.
I’ve had one for about 10 years, as long as I’ve been cold water swimming, it was a very generous present from a friend when they were niche and had hardly been heard of.
I can’t for the life of me think why you’d wear one apart from after swimming, it’s utterly shapeless and lacking any style whatsoever.
If you want a warm coat, there are so many better choices that aren’t a dry robe.
I am now vaguely mortified if I need to go into a shop post swim these days. I tend to swim in the river behind Waitrose in the town where I live and had to talk myself into keeping mine on recently as I was cold, and decided taking it off because of a weird trend/anti trend was daft. It’ll all get forgotten about soon… just please stop talking about them 😆
I got a Dryrobe (Nucleur Races SE 😛 )
Blooming love it for the kids sporting sideline. Paired with rigger boots and with a flask of coffee in the poacher's pocket..... I'm impenetrable to all weathers.
As for padded coats.... don't they have to be worn with tight track pants tucked into socks and your initials on the chest ?
A very useful warm and waterproof coat.
Too warm for a decent length walk, though, so it just shows that the dogwalkers who wear them have driven their dogs to the walk, will have the shortest poo-vacuation possible and then back in the car to drive home. It's literally admitting that your dog isn't getting a decent walk. 😀
FFS are we back on Dryrobes again? I honestly thought everything to be written about them already had. 😂
They were rampant at the kids rugby in Barnard Castle on Sunday.
A bunch of those look like the equestrian equivalent if I'm not mistaken. Seen a few of those round my way. It's good because now I know who to blame for wrecking the trails.
seeing as the other thread has been unnecessarily closed should we post our 'other songs that sum up Britain today' here now?
I can’t for the life of me think why you’d wear one.......it’s utterly shapeless and lacking any style whatsoever.
I'm a middle aged, overweight balding bloke. I like the idea of a Dryrobe entirely because people might be tricked into thinking its the Dryrobe that is shapeless and lacks style!
I’m a middle aged, overweight balding bloke. I like the idea of a Dryrobe entirely because people might be tricked into thinking its the Dryrobe that is shapeless and lacks style!
I see. You're saying More Cash Than Dash? 😉
Don’t get an orange one MoreCashThanDash, someone may mistake you for a space hopper and jump on 😀
Those coats that look like 1980’s sleeping bags with the bottom cut out
Seen the price of branded sleeping bag coats 😀 seen-em coming and then some Prima 😀 idiots
Used to be a pensioner staple the quilted gillet. Stick a North Face logo on it 😀 mugs
GLC I Got A Van and Auf Wiedersenin Mate for the STW Brexit support group!
We have a dryrobe copy for my son, it's great for keeping him warm post cx race and allow him to get changed under.
He doesn't wear out though as he says its too hot, plus its massive.
Not seen a Dryrobe with an Oodie underneath yet, that would be the ultimate...
I am not ashamed to say I have two Dryrobes and they are great bits of kit. I camped in my van on Monday night. Got out of bed Tuesday morning, popped the Dryrobe on whilst making a cuppa then sat on the step of the van wrapped up warm watching the sunrise. Perfect.
The latest fashion craze I've witnessed is people wearing very long padded gilets, no sleeves. I just don't get it.