Monday, October 24, 2011

Do Damsels Dig Capes?

This past weekend, I threw out my back. I haven’t been stretching lately and I ended up doing a lot more walking than I had anticipated after being on bed rest for two days, causing my lower back to seize up and forcing me to finish my unicorn costume in a horizontal position while pitifully whimpering. This could mean one of two things:
  1. I need to treat my body better
  2. I’m actually 80 years old
I’m currently leaning towards the latter because I want to start knitting and I think I may be having a love affair with capes. 

Now at first, I was all anti-cape. Who would want to wear that, said I? What use would I have for these faux-jacket mockeries? But then I started seeing them everywhere.

 Milly Siennea Belted Cape via ShopBop.com

 
Fatigue Finery Cape via Anthropologie.com
 
Nanette Lepore 'Kiss A Lot' Sweater Cape via Nordstrom.com

And I think I may be crushin’. Not on the shapeless, baggy, horrible capes mind you, but the posh capes that you might imagine yourself wearing while strolling down Park Ave with a coffee in your hand. In leather pants. Or dark skinny jeans. With boots. And maybe a furry cassock? WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME??

What say you, dear damsels? Would you wear this trend or do you want to escape the cape?

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