Category: Raincapes

…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 …

Possibly, in the dim and distant past, Clair the Cape Queen was involved with adventurer/spy Modesty Blaise, whose continent-crossing crime-fighting set-up went under the name The Network. No pretence, no long-winded nonsense. The Network. End of. Yes, there was plenty of international derring-do in the …

We do like Jr Walker & The All Stars’ 1972 ‘Walk in the Night’ and here’s Clair the Cape Queen certainly doing that, not far from her Mercia abode. The night was still and cool and the old buildings, with attendant old streetlights, added a …

OK, not the sort you’d have found at the end of the pier in Blackpool in the late 1960s but one that’s equally good – Clair The Cape Queen in a trio of capes, bringing bright colours and more muted hues to Mercia. Expect more …

Clair The Cape Queen’s got a thing for post-war industrial architecture, with a great affinity for buildings from the 1950s and 1960s. She came across this abandoned factory on one of her exploration trips and couldn’t resist a few cape pictures being taken at the …

Even Clair The Cape Queen has to visit the shops and with the rain falling a cape was needed to keep her dry. Today it was her sweet bag cape – so-called because its stripes reminded her of the paper bags you’d put loose sweets …