Talk:Inverness cape

Bad illustrationsSaintonge235 (talk) 09:02, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

The illustrations for this article, and for the Inverness Cape are the same, although the garments are different. Someone who knows the differences should assign them to one article only, and get proper illustrations for the other.

This article, Inverness cape, is broadly correct, although the In-popular-culture is poor (and for once, it's important to the article).

A "coat" has sleeves (and may have a cape). A "cape" does not have sleeves. The images are sleeveless, thus capes. Although the figure is clearly wearing sleeves, they're not the sleeves of his outer garment. They're also from a book Men's Fashion Illustration form the Turn of the Century and an Inverness coat would be archaic by such time, especially for high fashion.

I think these illustrations were removed from the coat article once, but they were restored after some argument. As the files were uploaded with the name "coat", this was taken as incontrovertible proof that they were of a coat, not a cape. 8( Andy Dingley (talk) 09:23, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

So we're going to just leave both articles with the same illustration, even though one of them must be wrong, just because whoever originally labelled the image called it a "coat"? Even if that's correct, the illustration on Iverness cape should be changed. AnnaGoFast (talk) 12:58, 20 November 2017 (UTC)