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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2517834" data-attributes="member: 30035">A couple of people have already made good points about the historical uses of a cloak or cape. But they also make a handy makeshift bedroll/blanket, or a bag of sorts to wrap up objects that either need padding or need to be unseen, or a horse blanket, or blindfold, or a quick disguise if it's reversible or just removed...&nbsp; And you could probably give someone a pretty good whack on the head with a weighted cape. Or watch what Athos does with his in the 1974 version of &quot;The Three Musketeers&quot; when they're fighting in the laundry.&nbsp;For those of us who don't wear them all the time they can seem unwieldly, but if you wore one regularly it would be second nature to avoid tripping over it on stairs or getting it tangled around your legs. And if you've ever been out in one, they don't really billow out behind you that much unless the wind is *very* strong. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 2517834, member: 30035"] A couple of people have already made good points about the historical uses of a cloak or cape. But they also make a handy makeshift bedroll/blanket, or a bag of sorts to wrap up objects that either need padding or need to be unseen, or a horse blanket, or blindfold, or a quick disguise if it's reversible or just removed... And you could probably give someone a pretty good whack on the head with a weighted cape. Or watch what Athos does with his in the 1974 version of "The Three Musketeers" when they're fighting in the laundry. For those of us who don't wear them all the time they can seem unwieldly, but if you wore one regularly it would be second nature to avoid tripping over it on stairs or getting it tangled around your legs. And if you've ever been out in one, they don't really billow out behind you that much unless the wind is *very* strong. :D [/QUOTE]

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