Why would you not want to be someone who wears a cloak often? And whatever those reasons are, why wouldn’t they prevent you from wearing a cloak after you buy it?
If it follows the pattern of the vest and the cane, I’ll want to wear it All The Time, whether that’s a good idea for signaling and aesthetic reasons or not—and I’m not sure it would be a good idea on either of those counts, but sensory considerations often trump those when it comes to things that I actually own and have experienced and gotten used to at all.
In other words: Right now I’m physically comfortable not wearing a cloak. If I get it and it’s as awesome along the physically-comfortable axis as I expect it will be, then I will quickly become the kind of person who is not physically comfortable when not wearing a cloak, and if it’s socially unacceptable to wear a cloak, or socially unacceptable to wear a cloak with my vest that I’m now uncomfortable when I’m not wearing, then that change could be a problem. (For values of ‘socially unacceptable’ that include ‘changes how people react to me in ways that are sufficiently bad’.)
If I could predict what peoples’ reaction to me-wearing-a-cloak would be without actually wearing a cloak to find out, this would be less of a problem, but as of right now I don’t know that they’d react acceptably.
Why would you not want to be someone who wears a cloak often? And whatever those reasons are, why wouldn’t they prevent you from wearing a cloak after you buy it?
If it follows the pattern of the vest and the cane, I’ll want to wear it All The Time, whether that’s a good idea for signaling and aesthetic reasons or not—and I’m not sure it would be a good idea on either of those counts, but sensory considerations often trump those when it comes to things that I actually own and have experienced and gotten used to at all.
In other words: Right now I’m physically comfortable not wearing a cloak. If I get it and it’s as awesome along the physically-comfortable axis as I expect it will be, then I will quickly become the kind of person who is not physically comfortable when not wearing a cloak, and if it’s socially unacceptable to wear a cloak, or socially unacceptable to wear a cloak with my vest that I’m now uncomfortable when I’m not wearing, then that change could be a problem. (For values of ‘socially unacceptable’ that include ‘changes how people react to me in ways that are sufficiently bad’.)
If I could predict what peoples’ reaction to me-wearing-a-cloak would be without actually wearing a cloak to find out, this would be less of a problem, but as of right now I don’t know that they’d react acceptably.