With the addition of the cape rack in the costume room, i think it only makes sense to allow us to get the hoods only, specifically for ultimates. when you pull a cape out to use the perk, you'll probably want to drop the hood, but then you have to buy the whole cape again to get a hood.
we should have the option to get the hood only, if you have the cape in your inventory. this is even more important for max cape variants. I know most players wont want to spend 1m and do vorkath/inferno again just to store their assembler/infernal max capes because they dropped their hoods. alternatively we can remove the requirement to have the hood in order to store the cape.