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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. Rich noblemen and elite warriors of the Aztec Empire would wear a tilmàtli; a Mesoamerican cloak/cape used as a symbol of their upper status. Cloth and clothing was of utmost importance to the Aztecs.
Ladies may wear a long (over the shoulders or to ankles) cloak usually called a cape, or a full-length cloak. Gentlemen wear an ankle-length or full-length cloak. Formal cloaks often have expensive, colored linings and trimmings such as silk, satin, velvet and fur. The term was the title of a 1942 operatic comedy. [12]
Edge, David: Arms and Armor of Medieval Knights: An Illustrated History of Weaponry in the Middle Ages. Hearn, Karen, ed. Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530–1630. New York: Rizzoli, 1995. ISBN 0-8478-1940-X. Bodemer, Brett: "Pantagruel's Seventh Chapter:The Title as Suspect Codpiece Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine."
A 200-year-old Mahiole alongside a feathered cape. The Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu has a 200-year-old mahiole and matching cloak. This bright red and yellow mahiole was given to the king of Kauaʻi , Kaumualiʻi , when he became a vassal to Kamehameha I in 1810, uniting all the islands into the Kingdom of Hawaii .
The feathered cloaks and capes provided physical protection, and were believed to provide spiritual protection for their wearers. [18] [19] And conversely the mana (spiritual power) of the wearer will be imparted on the cape, [20] and the father's mana can pass down to his heirs via the cape. [21]
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.
Many pelisse had small capes, the curricle pelisse of the 1820s being particularly notable, as it featured three. [ 3 ] The pelisse robe, a day dress with similar styling to coat-like pelisse, had similar features to the pelisse, such as front fastenings, [ 3 ] and was often intricately decorated with such applications as ribbons and embroidery ...
A mythical enemy-incinerating kapa (barkcloth) cape, retold as a feather skirt in one telling, occurs in Hawaiian mythology. In the tradition regarding the hero ʻAukelenuiaʻīkū, [c] the hero's grandmother Moʻoinanea who is matriarch of the divine lizards (moʻo akua, or simply moʻo) gives him her severed tail, which transforms into a cape (or kapa lehu, i.e. tapa) that turns enemies into ...