Some members attend in Holmesian deerstalker caps and Inverness capes.

Bands routinely perform in the rain, protecting their pipes and kilts by donning Inverness capes.

"When you're out standing in the rain and you place your velvet pipe underneath your arm, it tends to slip," said Mr. Mistofsky, ascribing this drawback to the properties of nylon, the standard fabric for Inverness capes.

Si-s-s-s (click) gave a great sigh and clutched the Inverness cloak around his large reptilian body.

It is labelled on the back 'The Man in an Inverness Cloak'."

The overcoat should be a dark dress coat such as a Chesterfield overcoat, Inverness cloak, or opera cloak.

He was clad in a long Inverness cloak of a particularly gaudy heather-blue tweed, a matching deerstalker cap, and held in one clawed hand a magnificent calabash pipe.