Category: Raincapes

The Cape Queen’s blue cape came in handy on a recent country walk: the wind was blowing harshly, the rain was coming down, yet Clair was well protected by her 1970s American cape. Billowing in the wind it made a great sight as she continued …

In 1978 The Stranglers released a three-track single, ‘Walk On By’/‘Tank’/‘Old Codger’, the new wave seven-inch peaking at number 21. Whether Clair The Cape Queen was thinking of Surrey’s finest we don’t know, but she showed us the abandoned Sherman tank she’d discovered in the …

Clair The Cape Queen clearly has a thing for clear capes but she’s also got a late-‘60s/early-’70 black and white vibe going. It certainly recreates images from old-school rainwear magazines and it’s just what we like. We don’t sway one way or the other when …

Clair The Cape Queen packed her carpet bag and headed West for a well-deserved break recently but March being what it is weather-wise, she went suitably prepared with her clear short cape. And it was fortunate she took it because her holiday venue served up …

Back in 1966 Manchester band The Hollies released ‘Bus Stop’, which made it to number five in the UK Singles Chart and number five in the USA’s Billboard charts. And who knows? Cape Queen Clair might have been thinking of that song while waiting at …

We’re not sure just what the reaction will be to Clair The Cape Queen’s ‘carousel cape’ but we think it’s just the ticket, and it certainly added a serious splash of colour out on the moors deep in the bleak midwinter. It’s one of Clair’s …

Black and white images add a certain something that you don’t get from a conventional colour image, which is why you’ll be seeing more of this kind in our coming posts. That, alongside Clair The Cape Queen’s ‘Ektachrome’-effect colour re-workings, gives us a throwback look …