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Can we please bring back cloaks? (www.darkincloset.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

They're so great!

  • Pockets
  • Super cool looking
  • Warm
  • Blanket whenever you need them

||Just don't make them a neckbeard thing people!||

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Cloaks? I want these hats back:

Chaperone

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I remember a video some dude put out where he discussed how he's pretty sure he discovered that those hats were just some other article of clothing rolled up which is why they're a little silly... I'd need to look for the video again. He'd made something, I forget what, and realized that it folded up into that hat exactly.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don't know the video you are talking about, but the piece of clothing this hats developed from is called gugel. Someone decided to wear the part for the face on the head, and fancy fashion it became.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Be the change you want to see. Whats stopping you from rocking a cloak?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I was literally just shopping for cloak sewing templates. If anything I’ll have a nice costume.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

be the change you want to see in the world.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Immediately people start hiding rifles and rock launchers under their cape. But it’s ok. I’ll curl up in my rock patterned cape to camouflage as a rock.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Perfect for my inner anarchist :)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Warm is a problem though

This little mud ball is cooking

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

sun-reflecting cloaks?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

You'll get your cloak when I get my toga.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I’ll wear both!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Come to College in portugal! Is part of the atire.

I had a "traje academico" back in those days. Loved to wear it on winter, it was so warm and confy.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm worried about the safety implications of bringing them back. What if they got caught in an escalator, elevator door, taxi door, normal door.

Plus I think it would be rude if you are walking down the sidewalk and your cape/cloak keeps touching people who are walking by you.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I don't think anybody worries about those things happening with long dresses, which are already plenty common and have similar risk.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Flashbacks to that chapter of The Watchmen where Dollar Bill tried to stop a bank robbery at a bank with revolving doors...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do you know about dresses ?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yikes, didnt think of that. I think we could work it all out though.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Check out the Cloak brand of clothes, they've got really neat cloaks that are super warm and fashionable!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I will

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Counterpoint, sleeves.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Blanket whenever you need them

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Is that even a cloak? Seems more like an attached cape.

I want full cult/jedi ammonitiy.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Cloaks are really a cool idea and I miss them, not that I was ever alive for them being en vogue haha

A great look despite the obvious hazard of them getting caught on things

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm no hobbit, but they seem impractical to me. Drafty in cold weather and sweaty in cool weather. I'll stick with modern breathable Gor-Tex!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yup. Would be something to get used to.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I prefer my ruana, it's like a poncho, but the arms have more freedom.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Ooh, that's cool!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I kinda stole one of these from my wife; it's great.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I have one that a friend made for me. Thick, warm, waterproof, not only is it my favorite "winter coat," I legit get compliments from strangers when I wear it in public.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That sounds amazing!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had one for a couple years, best winter 'coat' I've ever had! You probably shouldn't wear it with just a t-shirt underneath in the freezing snow, but with a sweater - you could wear that in the freezing rain for a while!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I always layer up in cold weather anyway; I hate feeling cold.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

If I see one I'll get one and then probably not wear it. Unles it turns out to be super cool

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The problem with a super cool item of clothing is you then have to make the rest of your outfit cool enough to match, or you look like a goof. Chunibyo territory.

It's doable but requires effort and wardrobe expansiveness.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Cloaks are awesome !

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You might think they look cool but they don't work that well when it's actually cold or raining hard

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They are not cool hence the reason they are not mainstream

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

They are not cool

I mean, not with that attitude.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I have a cloak that I got from Topshop when I was a teenager. Was great for wearing at festivals. Still have it but doubt it fits these days

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've been thinking about this recently with the heat in my region. Wouldn't a light cloak, with very light clothing underneath, work well for sun protection (one or two layers over skin) while still keeping fairly cool (due to airflow)?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think that’s basically how traditional bedouin clothing works?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

yes! we absolutely should bring them back. They are really functional and also just look fabulous!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have a cloak lul

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