#eveningcapes

[professorpski]

The Evening Cape, A Lost Look: McCalls 5362, 5350.

The highlight of the red evening cape 5350 of this pair is clearly the back. McCalls Magazine from August 1928 called it “a butterfly” evening cape because of the draped piece which flows from a center gather down over the shoulders to a point at the bottom. The front was only featured in the small sketch and it shut only with a little at the top, leaving the wearer to clutch the side closed.

The recommended “rayon transparent velvet” which was a lightweight velvet with a silk or rayon back and a rayon or acetate pile according to The Language of Fashion dictionary by Mary Brooks Picken. It draped particularly well, hence its use here. They also recommended “crepe satin” by which they must hae meant what Picken’s called crepe-back satin, as in crepe on one side, satin on the other. In silk or rayon, again it would have good drape.

5362, the cape on the left is brocade for the center pieces and then the “wings” as they call them of are velvet or satin. “The graceful effect,” they claimed, “was of two capes” which sounds kind of silly to me, but I can see the pleasure of harmonizing the patterned brocade with a solid fabric.  You can see that they used several rows shirring around the back neck to narrow the fabric there. Long, wide, ties come down the front; they do not show them tied, but you can imagine a woman would tie them as otherwise this cape must be clutched to the body.

So these evening capes did not opt for the most practical ways of closing a garment, and the most interesting features were not near the face as the Dress Doctors liked. But, Oooooo! Such a striking pair of garments all the same, and a pleasure to cope with when you are feeling in a dramatic and celebratory mood.

Although I could live without the dropped-waist dresses these were shown with,  the evening cape is one of those lost looks that I think we ought to revive and add back into our design vocabulary.

[handmadebynadya]

[genegeter]

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