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What would you call this garment?

yttclothing

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First of all apologies if this is in the wrong area, please move if so

I want to call this a cape but it has sleeves, I think it home-made in the 60's.

What would you call this so far I've landed at Tapestry Fabric Cape with Sleeves & Druid Style Hood.

Does anyone have any better ideas of what it might be called?

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Nora

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I'm quite sure that my mother, back when she wore that sort of stuff (okay, she still sort of does, actually), would call that a coat. Then again, that's in Norway, but...
In my head a cape does not have sleeves, if it has sleeves it's either a jacket or a coat of sorts. This one is long, thus, I'd say coat.

It seems to fit wikipedias definition of coat, at least.
 

HadleyH

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Caftan? Robe? Cloak? ...... Burnoose.


bur·noose also bur·nous (bər-no̅o̅s′)

A hooded cloak worn especially by Arabs and Berbers.
[French burnous, from Arabic burnus, from Greek birros, hooded cloak, from Late Latin birrus.]


Vintage 1970s Bohemian Burnoose :)
 

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