Wear a white cloak to a festival and it changes color all night long.
At noon it's chalk and bone. By golden hour it has gone apricot, then rose. When the stage wash rolls over the crowd it turns violet for one beat, cyan for the next, and when the lasers fan out above the dance floor, green lines skate across your shoulders like you're part of the light show. Which, by then, you are.
Dark cloaks hide the art until the light finds it. A pale cloak works the other way round: it collects the light and gives it back. Our Angel Catcher geometry comes on white, cream and ice grounds, and it turns out people have been reaching for white when they want to be seen for more than two thousand years.
Why did Roman candidates, Templar knights and druids wear white?
Each for its own reason. Roman candidates for public office chalked their togas a dazzling white, Templar knights took white mantles as a sign of purity and chastity, and the popular picture of white-robed druids comes largely from one passage by Pliny the Elder. Magus Fawn's white cloaks carry that luminous lineage onto the dance floor.
Start in Rome, where ambition had a color. A man running for public office rubbed his toga with chalk until it dazzled. That garment was the toga candida, from the Latin for "pure white", and according to Wikipedia's entry on the toga it's where English gets the word candidate. Every candidate since has been named after a chalky sheet of wool.
Twelve centuries later, a cloak became a vow. The Knights Templar were assigned their white mantle at the Council of Troyes in 1129, and the knights wore it as a sign of purity and chastity. Their Rule asked them to keep it on at all times, even at meals, as Wikipedia's history of the Knights Templar records. A sworn order in matching white cloaks: festival camps have been taking notes ever since.
The popular image of druids in white robes is mostly the work of one Roman writer. Pliny the Elder described a white-robed priest climbing an oak on the sixth day of the moon to cut mistletoe with a golden sickle, and Wikipedia's druid entry notes that this single passage did more than any other to shape the modern image of druids.
The meaning has held. Surveys in Europe and the United States link white most often with perfection, honesty, cleanliness, the beginning and the new, according to Wikipedia's history of the color white. The beginning and the new: we can't think of a better description of a sunrise set.
What makes a good white hooded cloak?
A good white hooded cloak has a deep hood that frames your face, a soft outer you'll want to live in, a warm lining, and enough linework to read as art instead of a bathrobe. Magus Fawn's pale Angel Catcher cloaks draw fine sacred geometry on white, cream and ice grounds, all hooded and faux-fur-lined.
That last point matters more on white than on any other color. A plain white cloak can look unfinished in daylight; give it a web of fine lines and it looks drawn, like a page from an artist's sketchbook that learned to walk.
Every cloak in this guide is the same Magus Fawn festival zipper cloak: a micro-mink poly outer (listed fabric weight 200 g/m²), a faux-fur lining in black or white, heavy drawstrings at the hood, a double front zipper and four pockets, two deep side pockets plus two interior stash pockets, one of them zippered. Men's and women's listings share a unisex fit from XS to 5XL, and each one is made to order.
Our hero is the Angel Catcher Light Gray Men's Festival Cloak ($250), the palest of the four here. Think of a snowfield signed with a fine pen: starbursts drawn in grey and charcoal across a near-white ground, a honeycomb hexagon over the heart, six-pointed stars set above and below it, and a pair of drawn wings opening across the shoulder blades. The print climbs right over the hood, so when you pull it up the geometry crowns you too. Worn open over black, as in our photo, it becomes a white frame around a dark center; zipped, it's one long column of moonlit lace. On white the wings look like a pencil study of feathers, which suits a design named for angels.
The Angel Catcher Light Blue Festival Cloak ($250) starts from a white field and floods it with winter-sky colors. Periwinkle and violet bursts scatter across it, each with a pale heart like a frost crystal, and they gather toward a blue hexagon medallion on the chest, with a Flower of Life in deep cobalt waiting on the back. It's the cool white, the color of fresh snow just after the sun goes down, and the pick we'd make for a snowy New Year's Eve or a winter solstice fire. Zip it to the collar, as she has, and add boots with some shine.
How does a white cloak look under festival lights?
It changes all night. A white surface reflects nearly every visible wavelength that hits it, so a pale cloak takes on whatever color is shining on it: gold at sunset, violet under the wash lights, green when the lasers sweep. Magus Fawn's white and ivory cloaks turn into a second screen for the light show.
The science is simple. White objects reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light, as Wikipedia's article on white explains, which is why snow looks the color of the sun. Put a white cloak under a magenta spotlight and it glows magenta. Black absorbs the show; white joins it.
That makes a pale cloak a generous thing to wear in a crowd. Your friends can find you from the back of the field, the photographer at the rail gets a canvas, and the colored linework on top keeps its own character while the ground around it shifts.
For golden hour, the Angel Catcher Light Yellow Women's Festival Cloak ($250) is our ivory. The ground is buttercream rather than snow, the starbursts come in gold and lilac, and a honey-and-rust hexagon glows over the chest with one small six-pointed star resting under it. When the low sun hits it, the whole cloak warms to the color of candlelight. Pair it with gold boots, as in our photo, or anything in lavender to echo the linework.
The Angel Catcher Light Teal Women's Festival Cloak ($250) is the sea-glass member of the family: white tinted with seafoam and soft aqua, every line drawn in teal, and a green-blue Flower of Life in the middle. Our photo shows it with the white faux-fur lining, and that's the move we'd make on any white cloak. Hood up, the lining rings your face in soft cream; open, it runs two bright ivory stripes from collar to hem. Choose the black lining instead and a pale cloak gets a crisp dark edge, which reads beautifully over an all-black outfit.
How do you keep a white cloak clean?
Follow our care instructions and skip the bleach. Magus Fawn cloaks go in the machine on cold with like colors, then hang to dry (best) or tumble dry low, with no ironing and no dry cleaning. The art is dye-sublimated into the fibers, so the colors stay bright and the print won't crack, wash after wash.
For a white cloak, "like colors" means your light load: whites, creams and pastels, with nothing darker in the drum. The no-bleach rule covers every Magus Fawn garment, white ones included.
Festivals are dusty places, and a white cloak will come home with some of the weekend on it. That's a good sign. Our guide to washing a festival cloak after the dust settles walks through playa dust and the rest of it, one load at a time.
Ordering yours: size, lining and lead time
Size up if you plan to layer. Our FAQ suggests going bigger for outerwear, "sometimes even 2 sizes up to fit extra layers under," and if you're between sizes, email your measurements to art@magusfawn.com. We typically reply within 1–2 business days.
Choose your lining at checkout: white for a soft glow around the face, black for the contrast. Every cloak is made to order, with 7–11 business days of production and then 6–14 business days of delivery, so order a few weeks ahead of the event you have in mind. Standard US shipping is free on orders of $70 and up, international shipping starts at $10, and every piece comes with one free size exchange, though the sizing email is still worth sending to get it right the first time.
Phil, who bought an Angel Catcher cloak, wrote in October 2023: "I was pretty dang skeptical to make this purchase due to price… Was it worth it? Hell YES it was!"
The color that answers the light
White has dressed Roman candidates, Templar knights and Pliny's druids, and it still means a beginning. On a cloak with art, it does something no other color can: it borrows every light at the festival and wears it for you, from the first gold of the afternoon to the last laser before sunrise.
Find your white cloak: women's cloaks · men's cloaks · all festival cloaks · hooded blankets
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Frequently asked questions
Is ivory the same color as white?
Not quite. Ivory is an off-white with a very slight tint of yellow, named after the material of elephant and walrus tusks, and Wikipedia notes English has used it as a color name since 1385. An ivory cloak reads warmer than snow white. Our ivory pick is the Angel Catcher Light Yellow: gold and lilac geometry on cream.
Is there a men's white cloak?
Yes. Magus Fawn's Angel Catcher Light Gray Men's Festival Cloak is white and pale grey with charcoal geometry, and the Light Blue, Light Yellow and Light Teal colorways also come as men's listings. Men's and women's cloaks share one spec and a unisex fit from XS to 5XL, so choose by color and size.
Why do brides wear white?
Largely because of Queen Victoria. Wikipedia's wedding dress history says earlier Western brides married in their best dress of any color; Victoria wore a white gown trimmed with Honiton lace in 1840, illustrations spread widely, and elite brides followed. Since the mid-20th century, white, ivory and ecru have dominated Western wedding dresses.
Who wears a white cloak in fantasy stories?
Tolkien's wizards are told apart by the color of their cloaks, and Gandalf the Grey returns in The Lord of the Rings as Gandalf the White. Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time has the Children of the Light, nicknamed the Whitecloaks. A hooded white Magus Fawn cloak suits either costume, with art included.
Written by Magus & Lylyth Fawn, the Los Angeles artists behind Magus Fawn. Magus makes VR and digital visionary art and produces Psy EDM. Lylyth makes fractal digital art and runs design and customer care. We've been selling wearable art since 2020 (4.8★ from 147 reviews as of October 2026), and every piece is made to order here at magusfawn.com. Come say hi on Instagram @magusfawn.
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