Can One Wear a Capuce Without Being Dominican (Or Franciscan)?

Here is a Dominican who explains why Dominicans wear them:

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26th April 2022 | The Thomistic Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8A3Dndq8c

While a habit of a Dominican or a Franciscan has to involve a Capuce, a Capuce can exist outside a religious habit.

Let's look at how the article linked to describes the capuce and the cappa:

The capuce is a hood attached to a circular piece of cloth that falls over the shoulders and comes down to a point in the small of the back. This hood used to be simply attached to the scapular (like a Carthusian’s habit) but at some point it became detached from the scapular and evolved into a rather elegant shoulder-cape with hood.

The black cappa, from which we get the name Black Friars, is just a large cape that covers most of the white habit. It was worn for warmth and when travelling. This too had a hood that became detached, resulting in a black capuce.

Let me quote once again the description of the cappa:

It was worn for warmth and when travelling.

There are obviously other ways to have warm clothing. But when travelling, you are exposed to different temperatures. A cape is useful, because you can wrap it around you when it's cold and throw it back when it's warmer.

A hood (or capuce) is useful, because you can put it up whan it's cold and - throw it back - when it's warmer.

There is no law of the Church saying that cape and capuce may not be worn by laymen, unless obviously impersonating an existing monastic or religious habit. So just having a capuce similar to a habit doesn't count. Mine is a gaudier colour and has Robin Hood-like "shoestrings" below the neck.

For my part, I wear breeches of the renaissance type, like the Swiss Guards. I am very certain that no religious order ever had such as visible clothing or as part of the habit.

My cape is also not of the monastic cappa model, any more than of the 30's French policeman and 70's French ladies' model. It's like the pelisse - in Hungarian it is called mente.

Hungarian hussars wore a pelisse as well, which was a short-waisted over-jacket similar to the dolmány. This piece of clothing was worn on only one side most of the time, so it was held on by an ornate cord.

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Like the cape thrown back, the pelisse worn on one side is cooler than a cape tucked around or a pelisse worn as a jacket. Again, fits varying temperatures.

You don't only have that when travelling (especially on foot), but also as a homeless person. And I've found it so useful, I think I will keep it even if I get a home.

And, as with the late renaissance breeches, the pelisse is very clearly not a part of any religious habit (the pelisse and capuche of the Templars look different, there the pelisse is not in fact a jacket, but closer to the actual cape, the cappa described for Dominicans in the quote). So no, the clothes I wear, unlike the Dominican habit, are not an "elaborate version of the wedding ring" and that one tying me to God.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Bruno
6.X.2022

In monasterio Turris, dioecesis Squillacensis, in Calabria, sancti Brunonis Confessoris, qui Ordinis Carthusianorum fuit Institutor.