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In full evening dress, ladies frequently use the cape as a fashion statement, or to protect the wearer or the fine fabrics of their evening-wear from the elements, especially where a coat would crush—or hide—the garment. These capes may be short (over the shoulders or to the waist) or a full-length cloak.
An Inverness cape worn with Highland dress, 2007 Tacoma Highland Games. Even though a wide variety of coats, overcoats, and rain gear are worn with Highland dress to deal with inclement weather, the Inverness cape has come to be almost universally adopted for rainy weather by pipe bands the world over, and many other kilt wearers also find it to be the preferable garment for such conditions.
[38] [44] Shorter dresses were followed with long draped gowns. [10] Some patterns were made to evoke the look of marble. [37] Embroidery of tigers and lions on some items may have been drawn from traditional Tibetan art or from Byzantine culture. [45] [46] The shoes were elaborately sculpted with various motifs including ivy, skulls, and wings ...
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It is worn with choir dress and hangs straight down at the front. Ordained clergy (bishops, priests and deacons) wear a black tippet. In the last century or so variations have arisen to accommodate forms of lay leadership. Authorized readers (known in some dioceses as licensed lay ministers) sometimes wear a blue one. A red tippet is also worn ...
The modern gown is derived from the roba worn under the cappa clausa, a garment resembling a long black cape.In early medieval times, all students at the universities were in at least minor orders, and were required to wear the cappa or other clerical dress, and restricted to clothes of black or other dark colour.
Woman's dolman mantle, front and back views. Harper's Bazaar, November 1871. A mantle (from old French mantel, from mantellum, the Latin term for a cloak) is a type of loose garment usually worn over indoor clothing to serve the same purpose as an overcoat.
Mark Aldane "Mak" Velasco Tumang (Tagalog: [ˈmɐɹk bɛˈlɐskɔ tʊˈmɐŋ]; born November 10, 1986) is a Filipino fashion designer. [1] He is popularly known for the Mayon gown and Ibong Adarna gown, dresses that he created for and worn by Catriona Gray where she won the Miss Universe 2018 beauty pageant.