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** The later films put Harry and company in a regular school uniform with a robe, possibly to avoid evoking [[Narm]] among the less fantasy-inclined members of the audience.
*** Conversely, in the [[The Worst Witch|Worst Witch]] Series by Jill Murphy, Pointed hats and robes are FANCY/Formal dress. The student wear variations on their school colors of black and grey even in their off hours. Including their [[Pajama-Clad Hero|PJs]].
** Apparently, some Wizards have a hard time distinguishing female muggle clothing from male muggle clothing [https://web.archive.org/web/20161102184319/http://
*** An interview with [[Chris Columbus]] revealed that early screen tests were done with Harry in robe and pointy hat over the rugby shirt, jeans and sneakers he appears with in on the US [[Market-Based Title|Sorcerer's Stone]] cover, but it [[Special Effects Failure|"looked like a Halloween costume"]].
* ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' has this. Gandalf is a particularly well-known example, and may have revitalized the concept into the modern era.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[The Chapel Chronicles]]'': In [http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/9 Dumbledore Voodoo], Chapel wears a wizard cape and hat and uses a wand to find her math homework by using ''Accio Math Journal''
* Used as an [[Overly Pre-Prepared Gag]] by Shiden in ''[http://www.yoshcomic.com/latest.php?i=20080829 Yosh!]{{Dead link}}''
* Used for a [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] gag in [[El Goonish Shive]] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-11-13 here], and a wizard's fedora and trenchcoat as the modern version is noted in the rant [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-05-30 here].
* Though the party wizard doesn't wear a hat, Elan of ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' puts one on when he's considering multiclassing to wizard. And while they don't wear ''hats'', pretty much any wizard, sorcerer, or druid in the series wears robes, including Xykon, Varsuvius, and Roy's Dad. A couple side characters DO wear hats as well, such as the Oracle, and the Azure City teleporting wizard.
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* Many of the higher clergy in the Catholic Church, most notably the Pope. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Leo_XIII.jpg You can't tell me this doesn't get "Flowing Robe and Pointy Hat" points.] Their original purpose was to be identified in a crowd easily. Now they are to symbolize their office rather than to cast [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|level 1,000,000 lightning]], but still. (Of course, it's debatable whether or not His Holiness ''can'' call down epic-level lightning...)
* The Zoroastrian Magi of Persia are thought to have originated the pointed-hat look and symbol-covered robes, while the broad-brimmed hat and long white beard may be derived from Odin. The words "magic" and "mage" are derived from ''magi'', so there might be something there.
* A number of ancient Saka people from in central and east Asia were found by archaeologists buried in incredibly tall pointy hats—which leads one to wonder just how far back this trope goes. The Saka were related to the above mentioned Zoroastrians, as they were both Iranian-language speakers. The Saka however did not wear robes, or at least wore trousers underneath them. Indeed one of the tribes of the Saka were called "Saka tigraxauda," or "Saka with pointed hats," by the Persians. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Tigraxauda.jpg\]{{Dead link}}
* Academia generates a lot of fuss about ceremonial garb. There are no pointy hats, but there are hats you're only allowed to wear if you have a Ph D, and the shape and color of graduates' hoods has a long and very specific history that varies depending on the institution. And, of course, they're accompanied by robes.
* During times of plague in the medieval era, doctors "treating" plague victims really, seriously did wear big robes and hats, presumably to keep skin-to-skin contact to a minimum. They also wore creepy-looking masks with pointy faces stuffed with aromatics to cut down on the smell; many had little glass lenses to see out of. They even used staffs to point at people and direct them, since their voices were muffled. The combined effect was like something out of ''[[Silent Hill]]''—especially when they were surrounded by all the rotting corpses.
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