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The women of the Holdeman Mennonite community in California wear a cape-dress that has a high neckline, loose bodice and fitted waist. The cape of the dress covers the shoulders and bust. [7] Because of religious reasons, no (or only minor) adornment of the dress is allowed. [7] The plainer the dress, the higher it is valued by some churches.
Capes are often highly decorated with elaborate embroidery. Capes remain in regular use as rainwear in various military units and police forces, in France for example. A gas cape was a voluminous military garment designed to give rain protection to someone wearing the bulky gas masks used in twentieth-century wars.
Short cloaks or capes, usually hip-length, often with sleeves, were worn by fashionable men, usually slung artistically over the left shoulder, even indoors; a fashion of the 1630s matched the cape fabric to the breeches and its lining to the doublet. Long cloaks were worn for inclement weather.
From around the mid-15th century very tight-fitting doublets, tailored to be tight at the waist, giving in effect a short skirt below, were fashionable. Sleeves were generally full, even puffy, and when worn with a large chaperon, the look was extremely stylish, but very top-heavy.
A vlieger is a type of sleeveless over-gown or cape worn by women in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. [1] Variations with short sleeves or high shoulder rolls are known. [2] Sometimes sleeves were attached with aiglets, and often slits were made to allow belts or the hands to pass through. [3]
At first, she’s childlike in puffed sleeve nightgowns and bloomers, but once she leaves her whimsical homestead for unknown lands, the puffed sleeves are paired with frilled skirts and richer ...
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