Category: Raincapes

Well not quite, but the skate park is in some shape and form a latter-day reminder of the Brutalist type of architecture. And while The Cape Queen didn’t have a skate board she did have a cracking cape, that causing much interest as she headed …

… and you might find Clair The Cape Queen enjoying an afternoon stroll. But summer hasn’t started in this part of Mercia and it’s pretty cold: it’s been raining a fair bit too, so Clair’s afternoon walk involved her fine 1960s dark blue American nylon …

It doesn’t take long for any shoot with Clair the Cape Queen to start talking about album covers: let’s face it, LP cover design was in a world of its own, pushing an artist as quickly as possible as you flicked through the album racks. …

A day for wandering around the town, taking in a bookshop (where books were bought) and maybe a coffee later. It was all good, despite the rain. And rain it did. Loads and loads of it, for a good couple of hours. Luckily and no …

Yes it is: Clair The Cape Queen’s latest acquisition is the 1960s cycle cape bought from Atomic Goose, a Derbyshire shop selling mid-century and vintage décor, curios and, in The Cape Queen’s case, this fabulous cape. It’s already bagged in a place in the Top …

…to be honest it didn’t, because the bandstand was empty apart from Clair The Cape Queen. And despite the sunshine Clair went for her late-‘60s/early-‘70s floral print cape – a guaranteed head-turner each and every time she wears it, so we hear. And in the …

So which is the best cape that’s been featured in Pluvmantelo? We think this early-1970s rubberized satin number is definitely in with a very good shout and Clair The Cape Queen certainly gives it a more than respectable 10 out of 10. True capeists won’t …