I'm wearing a Dunce Cap as of today for the rest of the weekend because I'm thinking I've made quite the silly fashion boo-boo.  Two years ago, I bought an Alexander McQueen satin cape at a sample sale and proceeded to be rather chuffed with my Hitchcock heroine-esque purchase.  Except the other day, I dug it out and as opposed to wearing skirts as capes, I thought I'd try out wearing capes as skirts if possible.  So when I wrapped it around the waist and attached the fastening, low and behold, a sort of extended pelmet that can be nipped and tucked up if necessary....

Except...hold up...wait a minute... maybe the 'cape' I bought at the sale wasn't a cape at all and was in fact supposed to be worn around the waist all along as a pelmet-skirt-type-thing? 

Catwalk images aren't a help seeing as the cape is from the AW2003 collection but never appeared on in the show lineup.  I'm thinking Lee McQueen isn't really going to be writing me a personal note to clarify what it is I bought exactly?  So, it's the 'sk-ape' or 'ca-irt', cape/skirt hybrid that now I'll probably get a lot more wear out of seeing as my sweaty arms won't be needing capes for a few months yet...