Got fed up looking at a bunch of capes while looking up cloak patterns. Hope this helps clear up any confusion. Feel free to add or correct any of this
I mean, unfortunately, this is still wrong? The longest capes are around mid-calf. If you have it all the way to the ground, then you’re going to utterly destroy half the garment because of the mud and muck you’ll kick up. Mid-lower calf are the absolute longest that you’ll have, because then you won’t get as much stuff on the fabric. You’ll have floor-length garments if you’re exceptionally rich, and that’s it.
That blurred-lines slide? The first is a poncho, the other two are cloaks. Second’s a short cloak, and the third is a remarkably reasonable cloak that would be seen from approximately 1300-1600′s.
So yeah. Cloaks are much shorter than you think, because otherwise you’d destroy a good quarter of the fabric, and that’s just wasteful.




