I shouldn't be allowed to have money.

I almost bought a $16 cape today. Not for part of a costume, but because I get cold often and love swishing about dramatically while walking.

I've seen people pull off capes, in both the online realm and the real-life one. But what stops me from taking the plunge into Cape Town (the cotton/fake cashmere kind, not the South African city) is this cold, hard fact: you're basically wearing a blanket in public.

Yet this is the exact reason I want a cape. Because day by day, I'm inching myself closer and closer to just wearing sheets in public (what with my embrace of flowy, unstructured dresses), and a fancy blanket would really be the finishing touch.

MUST RESIST THE LURE OF DAYTIME JAMMIES.