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For knights and highwaymen, Robin Hood and Superman, capes were no mere fashion. They were a way of life. Romance and adventure might as well have been sewn into the lining: the style guaranteed them. Modern-day versions have even more to offer, with a choice of colors, fabrics and...
Voluminous Versions. Different cloaks for different folks. The counterculture's fancy runs to officers' capes, Indian ponchos and thrift-shop oldies (especially the heavily embroidered, fringed variety once reserved for' covering grand pianos). Smart young matrons favor practical, less voluminous versions, often reversible and generally hooded. Pacesetters...
"It's dramatic. It's , theatrical. It's warm. It's waterproof. It's just different," said an enthusiastic Boston University coed last week in praise of her cape. For any, all or none of her reasons, cape sales, round the country are still soaring...
About forty students, the men wearing long capes and brandishing swords, the women dressed in long lace gowns, fought their way through a snowstorm to attend the revel. The revel consisted of medieval game playing, a banquet eaten in the medieval style, using knives but no forks or spoons, and...
Even Emanuel Ungaro, famed for his superhard edges, turned his virtuoso hand to fluid fabrics, softly sashed dresses and loosely pleated skirts. His best look: a long dress in a pinwheel print, belted, bloused and all at once both elegant and sensuous. Dior's Marc Bohan is every bit...