Extract about capes in the 1950s:
The 1950's Cape
The cape emerged again as an updated fashion statement in the 1950s. Paris designers often favoured simplified lines and for bulky tweedy, check and mohair fabrics the easy lines of a cloak were perfect to show the fabric to perfection.
A short cape was promoted in 1955 and this example shows a picture from a magazine of 1955.
This style was also adapted and used to make short mink or other fur wraps with kimono set sleeves, popular in the 1960s.
Stoles added glamour to outfits of the 1950s and early 1960s. Stoles from this period were about glamour and style. Stoles dressed an evening outfit and covered a bare back with shoestring straps. Often made of slub silks or dull satins, the stole ends would sometimes be embroidered and fringed. Contrast linings were frequently used in dramatic colour combinations such as black velvet lined with gold or perhaps emerald green thick lustrous satin. Quality machine made cotton lace versions were also popular.
For those with money the ultimate stole of the 1950s was the white mink stole. But all stoles soon disappeared when the 60's mini made the look old fashioned and dated. But for real glamour think 50's film stars with cleavage and an artfully draped stole.
The Poncho Cape
So the cloak and cape came in and out of fashion just as it had during the 19th century. One very interesting variation on this was the poncho cape a fashion of the 1970s. Ponchos existed in just about every possible variation from crochet versions to the more rustic, Clint Eastwood style Mexican poncho. The crochet poncho version version spawned a variation in the circular crochet granny shawls popular in the early 1970s.
The Pareo
By 1980 the poncho had morphed into the Pareo. A long length of wool fabric, either woven or knitted, about 70 to 80 inches long and made from 60 inch to 72inch wide cloth that was slit and very lightly shaped part way up the centre fold. Pareos were popular in the late 1980s and the 1990s and can be referred to as a wrap. They are a great item for fancy dress use.
Stoles
Stoles added glamour to outfits of the 1950s and early 1960s. Stoles from this period were about glamour and style. Stoles dressed an evening outfit and covered a bare back with shoestring straps. Often made of slub silks or dull satins, the stole ends would sometimes be embroidered and fringed. Contrast linings were frequently used in dramatic colour combinations such as black velvet lined with gold or perhaps emerald green thick lustrous satin. Quality machine made cotton lace versions were also popular.
For those with money the ultimate stole of the 1950s was the white mink stole. But all stoles soon disappeared when the 60's mini made the look old fashioned and dated. But for real glamour think 50's film stars with cleavage and an artfully draped stole.
The Poncho Cape
So the cloak and cape came in and out of fashion just as it had during the 19th century. One very interesting variation on this was the poncho cape a fashion of the 1970s. Ponchos existed in just about every possible variation from crochet versions to the more rustic, Clint Eastwood style Mexican poncho. The crochet poncho version version spawned a variation in the circular crochet granny shawls popular in the early 1970s.
The Pareo
By 1980 the poncho had morphed into the Pareo. A long length of wool fabric, either woven or knitted, about 70 to 80 inches long and made from 60 inch to 72inch wide cloth that was slit and very lightly shaped part way up the centre fold. Pareos were popular in the late 1980s and the 1990s and can be referred to as a wrap. They are a great item for fancy dress use.
Stoles
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