Horned Hooded Cape
A cape with a hood, which changes things.
Add a hood to a cape and you have added the one component animals object to most. The good news is that this hood is entirely optional, and the cape works without it.
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- Hood with two sewn horns, holding their shape
- Contrast binding around the whole edge
- Ribbon bow at the throat
- Three sizes, 16.5cm to 22cm long
- Red, orange or black
Colour: Black
Size: S
Why you'll love it
Made for happy, healthy pets
More costume than a plain cape
The horns and the hood turn a piece of draped fabric into a recognisable character. If the plain cape felt too understated, this is the same easy shape with the silhouette doing considerably more work.
Genuinely light
Fourteen to eighteen grams. It is one of the lightest garments here, which is why animals that shrug off heavier costumes will often leave this one alone.
Three colours that photograph differently
Black with red binding is the most gothic, red with black binding the most visible, and orange the one that reads as Halloween from furthest away.
Good fit if
- Wanting more silhouette than a plain cape gives
- Very small animals, since the whole thing weighs 14 grams
- Someone happy to wear the hood down rather than up
- Three-colour choice on a tight budget
Look elsewhere if
- Your dog is bigger than a spaniel
- You want the hood up and the pet has said no to headwear
- The animal chews at ribbon
Wear the hood down first
The horns are sewn into the hood, so the instinct is to put the hood up. Try it the other way round. Pushed back onto the shoulders the hood still stands, the horns still show, and the animal has nothing over its ears at all.
In photographs the difference is smaller than you would expect, because the horns read from the profile either way. In the animal's experience the difference is the whole thing: one version is a cape, the other is headwear, and headwear is what gets shaken off.
Fourteen grams
The small weighs fourteen grams and the large eighteen. That is lighter than a slice of bread, and lighter than every other garment on this site. For a kitten or a toy breed it is close to the practical minimum for something that still looks like a costume.
Light also means it moves. A cape this weight lifts when the animal runs and settles again when it stops, which photographs well and means nothing is pinned against the body long enough to become warm or itchy.
The bow, and what bows do
It ties at the throat with a ribbon bow rather than fastening with a clip. A bow releases instantly, which is the reason to like it, and tightens when the cape is pulled, which is the reason to check it twice.
Set it with two fingers lying flat under the ribbon, then look again after the animal has crossed the room. A cape that has caught briefly on a chair leg will have drawn the bow smaller without anybody noticing, and the second check is what catches that.
Three colours, three different photographs
Black with red binding is the moodiest and disappears on a black animal. Red with black binding carries furthest in a dim room. Orange is the one that reads as Halloween rather than as generic gothic, and it is the only one of the three that a stranger would identify as seasonal without being told.
All three are lined and bound around the full edge, so the reverse looks finished if the cape flips in a photograph, which on something this light it regularly does.
In the box
Everything you need
- Hooded cape with sewn horns and a ribbon tie
How it works
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Delivered
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The details
Specifications
- Material
- Polyester with contrast binding
- Colours
- Red, orange or black, each with contrast trim
- Length
- 16.5cm at S to 22cm at L
- Neck
- 28cm at S to 35cm at L
- Fastening
- Ribbon bow at the throat
- Weight
- 14g to 18g
- Care
- Hand wash cool, hang to dry
Size guide
| Size | Length | Neck |
|---|---|---|
| S | 16.5cm | 28cm |
| M | 18.5cm | 31cm |
| L | 22cm | 35cm |
Length here is the cape from collar to hem, not the animal's back, so it tells you coverage rather than fit. The neck figure is what to size on. All three are short capes by design: even the large stops around the shoulder blades on a spaniel, which is the point rather than a shortcoming.
Good questions
Before you buy
No, and often it should not. It sits perfectly well pushed back on the shoulders, which gives you the horns in the photograph without anything over the ears. Try it that way first.
Two fingers flat under the ribbon. A bow tightens if the cape is tugged, so check it again once the animal has moved rather than only when you tie it.
At 22cm long and a 35cm neck it will fit across the shoulders but reads as a short cape rather than a full one. Above that size there is nothing in this design.
They are stuffed fabric rather than moulded plastic, so they hold an upright shape but squash flat under a hand and spring back. There is nothing hard in them.
Hand wash cool and hang it up. The binding is stitched on rather than bonded, so it survives water, but a machine cycle will twist the horns out of shape.
Last reviewed August 30, 2026