Talk:Cape

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Please move the first part of this article to Cape (geography) and leave Cape for the second part. For a dis-ambiguation page, please create Cape (disambiguation). Any objections?? 66.32.110.184 23:39, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Consider it done. I moved the content on the Landform to Headlands and bays where it belongs and created Cape (disambiguation). Right now, I'm solving the redirects to the landform.--Paul 09:41, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This page was vandalized on approx Jan 15, 2006. I restored it to what I think it was prior to the vandalism. Mark Allyn

Someone should add a picture of Insert non-formatted text heresomeone in a vampire coustume in a cape, as well as someone in a superhero costume.#REDIRECT spot

Doesn't it make sense that a cape served the purpose of maintaining warmth, like a coat or blanket? A cape is much cooler than a coat when open, indicating that its best use was in places with extreme temperature changes. Also, by wrapping it like a poncho or blanket, a candle could be held in the lap and the heat contained by the cape. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.35.8.114 (talk) 21:53, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Practical Purpose?

I wonder if there is more to add to the practical purpose of a cape? Seems silly to me otherwise - a raincoat would provide better protection from the elements, or just a big blanket... --2600:6C48:7006:200:5C10:C716:750B:C3B2 (talk) 00:23, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Fashion Icon

Last paragraph - Since when is Batman a fashion icon? 206.116.184.155 (talk) 18:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalsm reverted

I reverted some vandalism that happened on January 26.

Allyn 03:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Changed Evening Kapes back to Evening Capes

Kapes is a proper name; I did a search on Google and found no reference to evening kapes, but lots of references to evening capes. --Allyn 16:06Italic text, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Cape can also be a geological term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.165.71 (talk) 23:35, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Removing image

I am removing this image of User:Allyn modelling a garment he designed and sells on his personal website (linked to on his userpage) in violation of Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Self-promotion. Also, although being an unusual design, the garment in the photo is not enough to justify inclusion in an encyclopedia - otherwise everyone that makes their own clothes could justify adding their work to articles. See Wikipedia:Notability. Besides... Cape, Trenchcoat, Raincoat, Costume, Poncho... which one is it? Allyn has uploaded photos of himself to all these articles. I suggest adding the photo to commons. RP Bravo 14:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

A more suitable image would be one of a superhero with a prominent cape for the popular culture section. RP Bravo 14:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Add a vampire cape, that is well known as well.

Fiction

There are capes worn by the Black Hand and Dark Templars in fiction.(76.247.222.101 19:24, 3 October 2007 (UTC))

Capelet

I thought the shorter form of cape (like the one in the picture), is called a capelet. I added this several weeks ago, but someone deleted it. cecikierk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.20.186 (talk) 22:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Superheroes

Surely superheroes are the most prominent cape-wearers in today's culture? It seems very odd to me that they're restricted to a single line right at the end.

I agree with a previous commenter who suggested that a superhero would probably make a better image for this. The one we've got now strikes me as more of a shawl.

Also, I don't know if dictionaries are going to back me up on this, but to my mind the biggest factor distinguishing capes and cloaks is the presence of a hood. Is that just me? --Oolong (talk) 00:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

superheroes

Was Superman the first superhero to wear a cape? Has there been any discussion of the signioficance of such an archaic garment becoming part of the iconography of the superhero? DavidOaks (talk) 19:46, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes he was. Superman first appeared in 1938, followed by fellow cape-wearers Batman and Capt. Marvel in the 1940's. Superman's design seems inspired by circus costumes; Batman's, by Dracula and Leonardo da Vinci; and Capt. Marvel's, by the Three Musketeers. Several superhero sources lampshade the impracticality of capes (notably The Incredibles) and/or their nature as a superhero trope (in Powers, the police refer to superheroes a "capes"). --Dawud

No, he was not. The Shadow was the first superhero to wear a cape in 1930, eight years before Superman's debut. Furthermore, Batman's cape was not inspired by Dracula. While da Vinci's ornithopter was an inspiration for Batman's wing-designed cape, Batman use of a cape was influenced by characters like Zorro. JosephSpiral (talk) 03:06, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Stub

This seems short. Is there nothing more to be said on capes? Could someone go into greater detail on variations or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.223.247 (talk) 22:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

cape worn on waist?

I've known similar garments worn around the waist to be referred to as capes, or colloquially as 'butt-capes' are these not in fact a kind of cape? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.254.92.91 (talk) 20:44, 3 June 2013 (UTC)