Missed Dracula's Cloak

I've noticed this post is more than an year old and has no replies, but I had to say something, for this poster reveals a complete ignorance of Bram Stoker's magnum opus.
Dracula doesn't wear a cloak in the novel! He is described as an old man, with completely white hair and a white moustache, all dressed in black, from head to toe, who rejuvenates after he feeds on Harker and on all those sailors from the Demeter, as he journeys to England by sea. Exactly the way Christopher Lee plays the character in this film, and the only reason why he accepted making it: he was garanteed that this would be a faithfull adaptation of Bram Stokers novel, unlike the Hammer versions (that I love, by the way!) which he more than often complained had gone extremely astray from the source. Of course, as only the first half of this film is fairly faithfull to the book, for as soon Dracula leaves for England the film departs completely from it (which doesn't makes it less enjoyable, quite the opposite), he was a bit disapointed again, but still maintains this is the best Dracula film he made.
But back to the point: an opera cloak was never mentioned in the novel, not once, and lets face it, it's bloody unrealistic for a noble (even an un-dead one) from Transylvania, on the outskirts of eastern Europe, to go around in formal attire and opera cloak!
The cloak, for those who do not know, was introduced by Bela Lugosi when he started playing Dracula on stage, he thought it gave the character a more dramatic effect (in other words, gave it a cool look for the audiences). When he was asked to reprise the role on the big screen, he simply kept that detail and wore the opera cloak and formal attire. The film was such a big hit that to the collective mind Lugosi's image became the image of Dracula. The fact that every Dracula film since then used the same imagery only helped to consolidate further the look of Dracula as an eastern Europe dandy, cloaked vampire.
This film was the first - as far as I know - to depict Dracula as he was described in the book. The 1977 BBC version of the novel, with Louis Jourdan, tryed to do the same, although Dracula doesn't have a moustache, never appears as an old man and at some points of the film even wears a completely black cloak. A failed atempt, but a rather entertaining one, and one of the few times where Dracula was portrayed as the amoral, evil monster he is.
Only 15 years latter, in Coppolla's version, was Dracula depicted again without a cloak - although I would much rather had prefered for him to wear it, than to have him look like an old transvesty as he did at the beginning of the film, what with that absurd hairdo and that riduculous red dress!
All this said, I'm still waiting for that faithfull adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the one that sticks to the book and depicts the vampire as he is described there: old, tall, gaunt, white hair and white moustache, all dressed in black from head to toe, rejuvenating after he feeds on Harker and the sailors of the Demeter as he journeys to England, and a completely amoral and totaly evil being!