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In fashion, the word "cape" usually refers to a shorter garment and "cloak" to a full-length version of the different types of garment, though the two terms are sometimes used synonymously for full-length coverings. A shoulder cape is thus sometimes called a "capelet". The fashion cape does not cover the front to any appreciable degree.
Oxford English Dictionary; Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5; Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, 2016. ISBN 0-300-09580-5
Anabaptist women wearing cape dresses and headcoverings. A cape dress describes a woman's dress that combines features of the cape and the dress. Either a cape-like garment is attached to the dress, pinned or sewn on, [1] and integrated into its construction, or the dress and cape are made to coordinate in fabric and/or color.
Edward VI in a red fur-lined gown with split hanging sleeves, a men's fashion of the mid-16th century. Despite the constant introduction of new terms by fashion designers, clothing manufacturers, and marketers, the names for several basic garment classes in English are very stable over time.
For example, the dolman, a 19th-century cape-like woman's garment with partial sleeves is often described as a mantle. [ 2 ] In English, the idiom "to take up/pick up/assume the mantle" is from the Bible , and means to take a position of authority, leadership or responsibility in a particular area, especially in the sense of carrying on for a ...
This 19th-century book illustration copies a 12th-century English image of a man wearing a hooded tunic. The garment's style and form can be traced back to Medieval Europe when the preferred clothing for Catholic monks included a hood called a cowl attached to a tunic or robes, [6] and a chaperon or hooded cape was very commonly worn by any outdoors worker.
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Wide-brimmed and shallow-crowned hat, normally worn at an angle. Popular from 1910s but most closely associated with 1940s-50s fashion. [28] Casquette: A small-peaked cap often worn by cyclists. [29] Caubeen: An Irish beret. [30] Cavalier hat: A wide-brimmed hat popular in 17th-century Europe. [31] Chengziguan