Men's luxury long hooded fleece dressing gown

Start with what the garment is for: a dressing gown is for the hours either side of sleep: the kettle at seven, the sofa at ten. Fleece is a brushed knit: the surface is raised into thousands of fine fibres that trap a layer of still air. That trapped air is the warmth — not the weight of the fabric. That is the difference between a fleece robe and one that only looks the part.

In use it shows up as one thing: warm the moment you put it on — no waiting for the fabric to warm through, which is the whole point on a cold morning in a cold hallway. There is more of this in our mens dressing gown with hood range.

Men ask about room across the back and enough length in the sleeve before anything else, and they are right to — it is where most robes fall down. In the same vein, have a look at our mens white dressing gown.

• Light for how warm it is — nothing pulls on the shoulders, so it stays comfortable through a whole evening on the sofa
• Dry in a couple of hours — it holds almost no water, so it is back on its hook the same day
• Cut to the ankle — cut to the ankle, it keeps the draught off the legs when you are standing at the kettle at seven in the morning, and it reads as a proper robe rather than a cover-up.
• A hood on a robe — it keeps wet hair off the shoulders and off the back of the neck, which is the single thing that makes a robe worth keeping on after a bath
• A robe you would keep — weight, finish and detail are where the money goes on a dressing gown, and all three show from across the room

Fleece does not absorb water. Straight out of the bath you will want to towel off first — for that job, towelling is the fabric that works. Machine wash cool at 30°C and air dry. Treated that way, a fleece dressing gown lasts five winters rather than one — the difference between a robe you keep on the back of the door and one you replace every autumn. In the same vein, have a look at our mens black dressing gown.