I wore firemaking (first), defence (second), farming, (fourth) and slayer, but prefered fire cape over others ever since I obtained one of those. Other skillcapes were only worn momentarily after obtaining them as they were new.
Agility and mining went straight to the cape rack though, as I maxed with them. :x
As for motivation to max.. it was always a goal of mine, but I guess the capes added the final push (was only missing agility and mining at their release). Though mostly because of their stats (not having to pick between fire cape and ardy cloak for corp as max cape had the combined stats of both etc) rather than the appearance.
18-Dec-2014 15:55:10