Where do rain capes come from? Well, it’s clear they certainly don’t appear out of thin air. So how is a rain cape made, where is the material sourced from, how is it designed? And how long does it take to make a rain cape? …
We motored down to the Surrey hills with a bootful of capes on roads are like those often featured in the excellent ‘Mysteries of Edgar Wallace’ series... …
As far as we know Nat isn’t a Contessa, but it’s change to see a cape-wearer barefoot and it’s good to recognize the 1954 film ‘The Barefoot Contessa’ that starred Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner. …
Not quite the South West, not quite the South coast, but we enjoyed our cape shoot with Crystal, whose location choice gave us our first urban backdrop. Guided by Crystal’s navigation skills it didn’t take long to arrive close to this excellent setting and the …
The Pluvmantelo crew loaded up and headed to the south coast to meet Nat, who it seemed was quite taken with a very small part of the Pluvmantelo collection. …
Any collection – paintings, books, wines or cigars, for example – has a stand-out item, and in the Pluvmantelo cape collection this old rubber cape is the star piece. …
Halfords, the car accessory and parts store – and cycle shop – was founded in Redditch by Frederick Rushbrooke. Born in 1861 he was from the generation that saw cycling as the great liberator, allowing people to travel independently much further than would have been able …
We’ve mentioned the importance of location when it comes to photographing our capes, but how the cape looks is important too. It’s clearly OK to have a wet cape or raincape, and a cycle cape can certainly be a bit used or patinated. But there’s …
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