These cloaks where custom made to fit my customers. When making custom products for customers I like to include them as much as possible in the design and creation processes. Most likely if you are coming to me to get something custom made you know exactly what you want. I will give you my opinion and throw in my expertise of materials but if you know what you want I try to make exactly that. The customers who wanted these cloaks made knew exactly what they wanted, they had fun going to the fabric store and picking out the buttons, outer fabric and lining fabric. They even got creative and got 3 colours of lining for a colour blocking look.