>>10969905should have used bridal leather.
You can also shave off the fuzziness on calf/lamb skin and it's much thinner.
It's not hard, but you can fuck it up, but when you're working on a small scale, you have plenty of material to work with even if you only buy one square foot of leather.
With real cloth, you kinda need to learn how to sew.
Also, they sell plenty of custom capes on ebay. I'm sure they're all quality. Kinda expensive tho.
Anyway, nothing really will ever match the perfectness of plastic. Always dynamic and looks most accurate.