I understand that modern outer layers are more functional. A leather jacket, for example, can be dressed up or down so as to be worn in a variety of situations. It is also better at keeping you warm.
However, I think capes/cloaks are more aesthetically pleasing garments. It also feels good to have the fabric flowing around you as you walk. But what do you think?
You can just say “Europe”. Nobody calls it “Roman area”. Plus it’s clearer and more accurate. European fashion trends permeated beyond the historical borders of Rome in some parts of Europe, and yet didn’t take off as much in historically Roman parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
I say “Roman area” because it was a Greek/Roman trend before anything else, it was a reference to that. It may have permeated but it never “picked up”. It’s like saying because there’s that one Inuit person wearing an Aztec poncho, it must mean we can say ponchos were a widely encroaching phenomenon.
Ok, but cloaks were a thing in various parts of Europe a couple hundred years ago, so I’m not sure what your point is.
That they were decreasing and not as much a thing in other places.