What are these jacket-cape things called?
Is there a specific name for these kinds of jackets that can't fully close, where is almost like a jacket and a cape had a baby? And does anyone know where a good spot to look for them?
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I think the clothing you presented looks similar to a duster coat.
Thats a drawing
Most coats can close irl, try overcoat, duster, mac, pea coat, trench coat
you can just wear them open
Yeah that drawing looks like it would be of a regular coat that's just tucked back behind the subject's hands.
A literal coat-cape-baby would be something like a tailcoat, which doesn't really have any modern uses outside of cosplay or British morning dress (which is also arguably a form of cosplay at this point as well).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailcoat
Tailcoat
A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the tails), with the front of the skirt cut away.
The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding in the Early Modern era. From the 18th century, however, tailcoats evolved into general forms of day and evening formal w...
You could also look at wrap coats, which are buttonless but use a belt
Seh Kelly sells a Tielocken coats, a coat without any buttons. https://www.sehkelly.com/shop/coats/tielocken/
S.E.H Kelly
Tielocken — S.E.H Kelly
Way back when, before the trench, was the tielocken — a long coat, mostly absent of buttons, and with a substantial, multi-buckle belt around its waist.