Movies Clothes White Bath Robes

I know you don’t have a white bath robe. It’s only found in the movies. Do ordinary people have them? It’s not possible because they sleep in their best friends, old T-shirts. It would look odd to wake up and wrap that white robe over a tattered, but comfortable T.

Whites robes are only in the movies because they’ll be a headache to wash. They are snowy white which means you can’t throw them in the washing machine together with towels, sheets, gym clothes and shorts of many colours. It’s worse if you are renting somewhere and pay to do laundry. That white robe demands solitary confinement, rolling about the washer on its own, same with dryer.

Before I forget, people who write novels always include white robes, not blue, burgundy, black or grey. Why? I think it’s because of movies. They hope Hollywood producers might adapt their novels into movies. That was before YouTube. You can make your own movies now.

I think hotels are largely responsible for white robes in movies. Rooms in a 5-star hotel are not equal. There are rooms, then there are suites. Suites have jacuzzis and white robes. Most romantic movies are shot in hotels. You know the scene: him and her in white robes drinking white wine or champagne in tall glasses; he disengages her robe, then the games begin.

That’s the story of the white robe in a nutshell. I’ll stick to the used and re-used sleeping T-shirts, holes and all.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.