A 1903 fashion plate of an Ulster, showing how the forearms can be brought under the cape.

Dark green coat, 83% wool 12% polyamide 5% polyester. World War II womenswear, the Netherlands

Sherlock Holmes wearing an ulster coat in one of the original Strand Magazine illustrations of The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

Depiction of Jack the Ripper taken from a series of images from the Illustrated London News for 13 October 1888 carrying the overall caption, "With the Vigilance Committee in the East End". This specific image is entitled "A Suspicious Character". The frontmost follower wears a deerstalker hat and an Ulster coat

Inverness cape, a sleeveless topcoat, common with Highland dress.

Two Italian carabinieri (gendarmes) with capes

Tlatoani Nezahualpiltzintli; Aztec king of Texcoco wearing a Mesoamerican cape

Pazyryk horseman wearing cape 300 BCE