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Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 10th 2023 at 3:48:36 AM
For style mostly. It is a thing from the victorian era. Gentlemen wore them in their smoking rooms or whatever they were called then. see here
It is to look stylish and affectation.
The caption for the picture on that page should be "James Fitz Gerald looking like a pimp in 1868".
edited 7th May '12 9:03:55 PM by Malph
Of course all Doctor Who fans should know what smoking jackets look like
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I think I'd like one like that.
Isn't it a bit odd that you list a downside to smoking, and then say you miss it? ...Actually, the list of upsides to smoking wouldn't fill a post-it note, so maybe that isn't so odd.
When I lived in an apartment, my neighbors smoked. My clothes smelled like cigarettes, because the closet wall adjoined their bedroom. Yuck.
edited 8th May '12 9:45:04 AM by ccoa
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.Can't stand it. It makes me physically gag to smell it. I can't decide what's worse: "fresh" cigarette smell from secondhand smoke, or that truly foul "stale" cigarette smell from smokers.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.Pipe tobacco smells rather lovely; cigarette tobacco is not half so pleasant.
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Me Too!... Honestly, I could never get into smoking because second hand smoke is bad enough.
edited 8th May '12 9:49:26 AM by deathpigeon
My dad smokes like a chimney. And cigars, no less!
I just toss them out the window and forbid him to enter my room. EVER.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerI have had a bad relationship with smoking since my dad's heart attack, but I will always associate the smell of cigarettes with him so I can't call it all bad.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."My father killed himself with smoking. 2 packs a day while on oxygen for emphysema. Every time I visited his apartment I came away smelling like an ashtray. I never smoked and never will smoke with that as an example.
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It's just a fancy name for "bathrobe". It's so you can wear something soft and comfortable while lounging in your study and, as was typical of the time, smoking.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."