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Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:02 pm**

Can someone educate me on the word "cape" in the phrase "cape dresses"? Where's the cape?

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:04 pm**

In the front.

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:28 pm**

RZehr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:04 pmIn the front.

Oh! I hadn't thought of it that way. Now I get it. Thanks.

When I was a little boy, capes were in back. Like Superman and Batman.

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:17 pm**

RZehr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:04 pmIn the front.

And the back. At least the cape dresses I'm familiar with. They have the same extra layer in the back that they do in the front.

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:39 pm**

Bootstrap wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:28 pm
RZehr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:04 pmIn the front.
Oh! I hadn't thought of it that way. Now I get it. Thanks.

When I was a little boy, capes were in back. Like Superman and Batman.

Don't think superhero capes. In women's fashion a cape (especially in olden-times) is something like this. A cape dress just builds it into the dress.

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:44 pm**

Ken wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:39 pm Don't think superhero capes. In women's fashion a cape (especially in olden-times) is something like this. A cape dress just builds it into the dress.

Thanks, that's helpful. I can visualize it now. I can see the connection between this picture and the previous one.

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:15 pm**

Bootstrap wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:44 pm Thanks, that's helpful. I can visualize it now. I can see the connection between this picture and the previous one.

And of course there are some groups that bridge the gap between the two pictures, like the OGBB:

and the OORB:

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:17 pm**

I am fairly sure that the cape you see in many modern day conservative Mennonite churches is vestigial of something bigger. Just like a lot of the head coverings.

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:44 pm**

mike wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:17 pm I am fairly sure that the cape you see in many modern day conservative Mennonite churches is vestigial of something bigger. Just like a lot of the head coverings.

early 16th century German peasant dress: https://handcraftedhistory.blog/2022/01 ... ing-woman/

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:50 pm**

Would seem bigger at this point

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