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Shawls gave way to differently designed wraps, including mantles, capes, and dolmans. [ 5 ] : 42 Another reason for their reduced popularity was due to their limited availability: the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) prevented the export of fine goat-hair shawls from Kashmir.
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.
Capes was born in London, one of eleven children: his elder sister, Harriet Capes, was a noted translator and author of more than a dozen children's books. [1] His uncle, John Moore Capes, was President of the Oxford Union while attending Balliol College, Oxford [2] [3] and published a semi-autobiographical novel. [4]
Simple American bonnet or mobcap, in a portrait by Benjamin Greenleaf, 1805. A mobcap (or mob cap or mob-cap) is a round, gathered or pleated cloth (usually linen) bonnet consisting of a caul to cover the hair, a frilled or ruffled brim, and (often) a ribbon band, worn by married women in the 18th and early 19th centuries, when it was called a "bonnet".
Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 – January 24, 1970) [1] was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra, [2] an American patron of the arts, a publisher, and the woman Time called the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris."
Love & Death is an American biographical crime drama miniseries directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and Clark Johnson, written by David E. Kelley that premiered on April 27, 2023, on HBO Max. [ a ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It stars Elizabeth Olsen , Jesse Plemons , Lily Rabe , Patrick Fugit , Krysten Ritter , Tom Pelphrey , Elizabeth Marvel , and Keir Gilchrist .
Morris was born at Elm House in Walthamstow, Essex, on 24 March 1834. [2] Raised into a wealthy middle-class family, he was named after his father, a financier who worked as a partner in the Sanderson & Co. firm, bill brokers in the City of London. [3]
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 ...