My formative years were in suburban New Jersey where we experienced days of heavy rain. Thinking back to those years from 1970 onward, I know my desire to wear raincoats was shaped by my Mom, my great aunt, and many neighborhood and school mothers and teachers who would throw on their London Fog or similar Balmacaan raincoats and trenchcoats or the occasional rubber slicker or rubberized benchwarmer hooded long parka for the “school run” or “bus duty”. Even as they drenched their raincoats getting us to school or picking us up at lunchtime or day’s end, all of these women were determined to defy the damn rain in their soaked raincoats. Most of them - like us in grade school - avoided using umbrellas and relied only on their raincoats against a downpour. To witness this many times on rainy days was incredibly alluring. These women and teachers were all role models for me.
Do you have role models who defied the damn rain in their raincoats? What raincoats did they wear and can you describe your role model(s) on a memorable rainy day and how they attracted you?
Thank you for sharing your rainwear role models from either your formative years or as adults.
Role Models: Who were your role models for wearing raincoats and what raincoat did they wear?
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Around when I was 10 in school. A teacher I had a crush on would wear her lovely long navy nylon rubber backed mac.
I thought she looked very sexy and tormented me with her stoking covered legs showing.
She would take off her mac in the classroom and you could see the rubber inside .she would then take into the clock room and hang it on her peg.
And as a young boy I would fantasies about being forced to put it on and made to wear it in the classroom in front of all the class.
But I would have to pass the cloakroom to go to the toilet.
And as I'm passing it just hanging up on her leg.i would have to touch it and I would always pull it to my face and breathe in the lovely smell of her and the mac .
It was awesome and always pop in my head when I would have to relieve myself. I still think she was very sexy and not forgetting her plastic rain bonnet she would wear with her mac .very nice .
I thought she looked very sexy and tormented me with her stoking covered legs showing.
She would take off her mac in the classroom and you could see the rubber inside .she would then take into the clock room and hang it on her peg.
And as a young boy I would fantasies about being forced to put it on and made to wear it in the classroom in front of all the class.
But I would have to pass the cloakroom to go to the toilet.
And as I'm passing it just hanging up on her leg.i would have to touch it and I would always pull it to my face and breathe in the lovely smell of her and the mac .
It was awesome and always pop in my head when I would have to relieve myself. I still think she was very sexy and not forgetting her plastic rain bonnet she would wear with her mac .very nice .
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joe wrote: ↑November 27th, 2022, 3:18 am My formative years were in suburban New Jersey where we experienced days of heavy rain. Thinking back to those years from 1970 onward, I know my desire to wear raincoats was shaped by my Mom, my great aunt, and many neighborhood and school mothers and teachers who would throw on their London Fog or similar Balmacaan raincoats and trenchcoats or the occasional rubber slicker or rubberized benchwarmer hooded long parka for the “school run” or “bus duty”. Even as they drenched their raincoats getting us to school or picking us up at lunchtime or day’s end, all of these women were determined to defy the damn rain in their soaked raincoats. Most of them - like us in grade school - avoided using umbrellas and relied only on their raincoats against a downpour. To witness this many times on rainy days was incredibly alluring. These women and teachers were all role models for me.
Do you have role models who defied the damn rain in their raincoats? What raincoats did they wear and can you describe your role model(s) on a memorable rainy day and how they attracted you?
Thank you for sharing your rainwear role models from either your formative years or as adults.
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My sister was at a stable a lot when i was younger, in sweden it rains often, She was outside with horses even if it was raining and she had a long blue shiny rukka raincoat. It got muddy and wet a lot. I had a yellow shiny rukka raincoat when I was outside and being in aw of my sister who always keept being outside with her horses in the rain and mudd . I loved loaning her blue shiny rukka after i seen her use it.
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Hello all:
Thank you for the responses thus far to my post. As you may know from my earlier posts on Rainwear Central, I am presently reflecting upon the influence of my mom, my great aunt, and the many women in my neighborhood who wore the classic London Fog or Misty Harbor raincoats in the 1960s and 70s. My New Jersey hometown in the States was pretty much a middle-class suburb striving to be more affluent. Even in grade school, some of us were wearing the London Fog style raincoats like our parents and older college age siblings in addition to the yellow rubber raincoats and helmet hoods which were the more typical student rainwear of the time.
Growing up in the New York Metropolitan Area in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, we could count upon an all-day heavy rain at least once a month. And our parents wore their London Fog raincoats as their every day outerwear anyway.
I don’t know that the women that I knew and saw wearing their raincoats really liked rainy weather, and some of the torrential downpours that we had to dress for. But from them I saw that they were wearing their London Fog raincoats as if they were the waterproof rubber slickers worn by the police and many school students. As I am fond of saying, they put on their raincoats and went out to defy the heavy rain, turning up their balmacaan collars and letting the rain drench them thinking that their coats were more waterproof than they really were. I think too that umbrellas were more an urban fashion accessory that might not be used as often in the suburbs, and they were rarely used by young school children. The mothers and neighborhood women often relied upon a rain bonnet over their heads and their raincoats for protection. For the most part, women accepted the fact that they were going to drench their raincoats as they totally relied upon their protection as they went about doing errands, commuting and going to work, or doing the daily school run out in the pouring rain. Indeed, all of us, young and old wearing the “cloth rainmacs”, really soaked the daylights out of our Balmacaan raincoats and trench coats going out on a day of seemingly incessant heavy, driving rain.
Needless to say, I came to adore and was obsessively attracted to the look of, and the wearing of a drenched raincoat from those days to the present.
Again, your descriptions of your role models in reaching for your raincoat whenever you could are welcomed by me.
Joe
Thank you for the responses thus far to my post. As you may know from my earlier posts on Rainwear Central, I am presently reflecting upon the influence of my mom, my great aunt, and the many women in my neighborhood who wore the classic London Fog or Misty Harbor raincoats in the 1960s and 70s. My New Jersey hometown in the States was pretty much a middle-class suburb striving to be more affluent. Even in grade school, some of us were wearing the London Fog style raincoats like our parents and older college age siblings in addition to the yellow rubber raincoats and helmet hoods which were the more typical student rainwear of the time.
Growing up in the New York Metropolitan Area in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, we could count upon an all-day heavy rain at least once a month. And our parents wore their London Fog raincoats as their every day outerwear anyway.
I don’t know that the women that I knew and saw wearing their raincoats really liked rainy weather, and some of the torrential downpours that we had to dress for. But from them I saw that they were wearing their London Fog raincoats as if they were the waterproof rubber slickers worn by the police and many school students. As I am fond of saying, they put on their raincoats and went out to defy the heavy rain, turning up their balmacaan collars and letting the rain drench them thinking that their coats were more waterproof than they really were. I think too that umbrellas were more an urban fashion accessory that might not be used as often in the suburbs, and they were rarely used by young school children. The mothers and neighborhood women often relied upon a rain bonnet over their heads and their raincoats for protection. For the most part, women accepted the fact that they were going to drench their raincoats as they totally relied upon their protection as they went about doing errands, commuting and going to work, or doing the daily school run out in the pouring rain. Indeed, all of us, young and old wearing the “cloth rainmacs”, really soaked the daylights out of our Balmacaan raincoats and trench coats going out on a day of seemingly incessant heavy, driving rain.
Needless to say, I came to adore and was obsessively attracted to the look of, and the wearing of a drenched raincoat from those days to the present.
Again, your descriptions of your role models in reaching for your raincoat whenever you could are welcomed by me.
Joe
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I don’t really have a role model - as such. I think my desires started very young and created (or nurtured) by my mother using plastic bedding and plastic pants for me, as I was a bed wetter. In later life my role models were any woman wearing plastic or PVC rainwear, although I came to appreciate nylon cagoules as well providing they were shiny.
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