World Cup

[Cagoulelover]

The recent World Cup has got me thinking about rainwear around the world.
I am British and so I’m well aware of rainwear offerings in this country - I think Ireland is quite similar?
Germany seems to have some good things and I will search ‘regenmantel / Jacke’ and ‘friesennerz’ on occasions.
France - home of the sexy Kway - do French women wear their kway cagoules out and about?
Italy - also a fan of the kway
USA - not too sure but a search for ‘rain slicker’ or ‘windbreaker’ will often uncover a gem- are Americans into rainwear as a fetish? I know that the search term ‘monogrammed rain jacket’ is a good one and also that US women like to share review images on Amazon pages! (Not something we tend to see in Europe)
Speaking of review images - has anybody looked in wild berries Russian site? (Don’t buy anything in case MI6 arrive at your front door!) - I use Google translate to search rain jackets and the results never disappoint!
I don’t know much about South America? I worked with a women from South Africa who regularly wore a rain jacket but other than that, not sure??
Japanese and Korean women are a real turn on for me and in their cagoules, especially so!
What have I missed? Any ideas of other countries? Links to sites, photos or posts??

[Metalfarmer09]

I know they weren't at the world cup but what about Scandinavian countries? I'm quite sure they have some

[Deleted User 5375]

Generalisation is never good, but here I go! A higher proportion of German’s are into latex, but the tendency is for pastel shades, rather than the black or fed that most other countries associate with fetish rubberwear. Now I’ll wait for all the disagreements to flood in. I can say with 100% certainly that within the tiny country of Jellyland, where I am the only inhabitant, plastic jelly jackets and matching joggers are all the rage!

JM

[blackmacjay]

Well, I live in a part of North Carolina and we get 54 inches of rain in every year. So much is that it is known as a temperate rain forest. If that helps as it might then good. Both of us wear rubber-lined mackintoshes. For me it is a fetish and it keeps her warm and dry.

[PVC Raincoat]

I live in north west British Columbia, Canada. In the rain forest with around 300 days of precipitation per year. It is also a container port and fishing city. Rainwear is the norm here for men and ladies, mostly Helly Hansen or Guy Cotton along with Hunter boots, some of the PU fabric raincoats around as well. My wife and I wear PVC raincoats and jackets from PUL. I really like the new black thick shiny PVC from PUL, they made me some in the BKS5 with the shiny side in. No one takes any notice even when I'm wearing them and it's not raining. I've had quite a few positive comments like "I like your raincoat" I expect is would be similar on the east coast of Canada as they have a container port and fishing industry, but having lived in Quebec and Ontario I can tell you rainwear is not the norm inland even in a downpour.

[annabell-cagoule]

Scandinavia is a hotbed for the brand of Rains, Ilse etc, they seem to favour the matt pvc/fakerubber style alot and it’s totally normal to see women in particular wearing them as a daily coat.

France, definitely kway land in my opinion and again lots of us women wearing them there.

I just got back from USA - California and was disappointed with the lack of rainwear! None of the shops i went in had any for sale bar a bug DIY store like our B&Q who had workmans slickers and yellow pu back nylon bib and jackets, which even when it was absolutely pouring down with rain did I see being worn by anyone! We had 3 days of rain, two of which were torrential storm and they were the only ones I saw folks wearing apart from one lady in a red stutterheim opal through a shop window ordering food.

One surf shop has some very lightweight wind proof cagoules by volcom in a green faded camo look.

Are Americans just not into cagoules at all? Is it more a European thing with pvc and plastic being super popular in Aisa?

[Gordo]

Scandinavia is a hotbed for the brand of Rains, Ilse etc, they seem to favour the matt pvc/fakerubber style alot and it’s totally normal to see women in particular wearing them as a daily coat.

France, definitely kway land in my opinion and again lots of us women wearing them there.

I just got back from USA - California and was disappointed with the lack of rainwear! None of the shops i went in had any for sale bar a bug DIY store like our B&Q who had workmans slickers and yellow pu back nylon bib and jackets, which even when it was absolutely pouring down with rain did I see being worn by anyone! We had 3 days of rain, two of which were torrential storm and they were the only ones I saw folks wearing apart from one lady in a red stutterheim opal through a shop window ordering food.

One surf shop has some very lightweight wind proof cagoules by volcom in a green faded camo look.

Are Americans just not into cagoules at all? Is it more a European thing with pvc and plastic being super popular in Aisa?

In the past I've done lots of research on why some places or countries have such a higher rate of rainwear wearing then other places or countries. Research which I've mostly done to create made up rainwear rich fictional towns.

The thing about Scandinavia and California is that there's a huge difference in culture attitudes towards rain. In Scandinavia there's a saying called “There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes”. People there have a higher tendency to go no matter what the weather including in rain, plus kids are brought up this way. It's like in the culture. This results in lots of rainwear wearing in Scandinavia particularly in Norway due to the wetter west coast. Back when I was younger I quickly saw this even in comparison to my country Canada which isn't bad thought unfortunately I don't live in a really wet area like PVC Raincoat does.

As for California even thought the winter season can be wet at times, because California has such a nice weather reputation people and kids there have a tendency to simply head indoors until the rain passes. Not to mention how hot, long and dry summers are, which means people don't bother with a raincoat. Now granted I'm mostly talking about Southern California. Northern California close to Oregon may be different.

From all of my research I've concluded that the most ideal place or country for rainwear is for the high temperature to be between 0 and 10 °C in the winter, and for summers to be at least somewhat on the cool side. As well as being on the wet side all year round.