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 here someone 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 Conflict_of_interest. 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 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)