Elevate Your 2020 Wardrobe With Trendy Cape Styles

COVER STORY / 2020-02-19

Elevate Your 2020 Wardrobe With Trendy Cape Styles

Those in-between months of a transitioning winter is a time we all look forward to. However, keeping up with fashion trends can sometimes get hard during these months – when the overcoats are a tad too warm, and the shrugs a tad too bare. The struggle to find fashionable alternatives is a hard one, but there’s hope. It doubles up as a superwoman costume, both fashion-forward and chic, and bound to make a lasting fashion statement. Yes, we’re talking about the ever elegant and perfect winter drape – the cape. 

If you, like us, are wondering how to elevate your style this 2020, we bring you the best on how to style a cape with some of the best cape style coat and cape style dresses that will inspire and elevate your style quotient this new year. 

When it comes to cape style coat and cape style dresses, there are a few historic fashion hits that have turned cape fashion into an absolute fashion must-have. From Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas fashionable entries at the Met 2017 up to 2018 and 2019, we’ve seen Priyanka Chopra pull off some very bold, independent and fierce fashion-forward looks, and guess what they all had in common? Capes! Thanks to her choice of statement cape style dresses, every one of her Met appearances has been nothing short of an instant fashion hit.

Wondering how to elevate your style in 2020? Get in on the cape style dresses trend.

While Priyanka Chopra’s cape style dresses may have been one for the fashion blogs, and fiercely fashionable on the Met carpet, they are looks that even the boldest among us would struggle to replicate as a daily fashion choice. But the good news is that you don’t have to! With multiple fashionable cape style dresses and styles for you to choose from, cape style dresses are no longer a statement on just runways but a style you can incorporate into your partywear wardrobe as well as a daily wear choice. 

RED VALENTINO Military Wool Embroidered Cape

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Here are some interesting ways you can pull off your cape style coat looks in 2020 –

From Miu Miu to Prada, Dior and Celine, many designers have reigned in on cape style coat and cape style dresses trends this season. 

BRANDON MAXWELL Heavy Wool Cape Suit Coat

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BURBERRY Military Wool And Cashmere Cape

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Cape style coat with sleeves is another trending runway style that it makes us want to get in on it too! However, pulling off any cape style coat with sleeves look is not always as easy breezy as it seems on the runways. Finding the perfect cape style dresses for yourself does not have to be as daunting. So here are some of the best cape style dresses that we have seen in fashion over the years. 

When it comes to styling a cape, there are many fun ways you can go about it. The best part about a cape is that it gives you just the right power-look for any day. Be it a regular but stylish day at work, or lunch with friends, or parywear – there’s enough and more cape styles to suit the occasion.

BURBERRY Capsmoore Wool and Cashmere Cape

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Exude sophistication and poise and go for an all-black look in a black cape dress or a black cape coat -

Be it a run to the store, out shopping, partywear or get-together with friends and family, you can truly never go out of style in a black outfit. And all the more can be said of black cape style dresses and black cape style coats. Indulge in the black cape coat fashion favourite by investing in black capes from Alexander McQueen to Burberry.

Play it flirty in a cape skirt -

The best part about the cape style this year has been the rising trend of artsy and creative versions of cape style dresses. Play it fun and flirty in camis, cape skirts and dresses by opting for some fun floral prints or polkas. With loud and bold being the statement choice for fashionistas this year, go big or go home with colourful and flirtatious cape skirts and dresses this year.

ALEXIS Ambra Romper with Pleated Cape

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CAROLINE CONSTAS Ainsley Dotted Cape Cami

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During these months, what we fashionistas need is an outerwear option that keeps us warm and cozy throughout long winters, and truly nothing says uber-chic like the cape. From royalty of the likes of Kate Middleton to Meghan Markle and Princess Charlene, we’ve seen many popular celebs sport the trending cape in fashion looks. The fall/winter 2019 runways were statuesque in elegant cape style coat with sleeves, cape style dresses and other styles of cape in fashion. Find your pick, and invest in some of the best cape style coats and dresses this season.

MCQ ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Wool Cape

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BURBERRY Hooded Wool Cashmere Long Cape

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