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Re: First forum/website for rainwear you used/followed
Posted: February 15th, 2020, 12:16 pm
by 1000Raincoats
There are also pictures of an Asian girl from Norway named Rita. Can't find a page with her on the web. She was a lovely woman in raincoats
Re: First forum/website for rainwear you used/followed
Posted: February 15th, 2020, 8:01 pm
by rainwear-experience
1000Raincoats wrote: ↑February 15th, 2020, 12:16 pm
There are also pictures of an Asian girl from Norway named Rita. Can't find a page with her on the web. She was a lovely woman in raincoats
Many, many years ago I sent some stuff to Rita in Norway, it was more medical related plastics than actual rainwear, she was kind enough to send me pictures of her wearing the items
I think she had the original shinygirl website
Re: First forum/website for rainwear you used/followed
Posted: February 16th, 2020, 10:47 am
by BobbyValore
rubberbootsmud wrote: ↑February 15th, 2020, 11:01 am
BobbyValore wrote: ↑January 26th, 2020, 1:53 pm
For me it must have been a small Dutch website where the old rubber coated Agu rainwear from the Netherlands was discussed together with some scanned pictures of the boxes the rainwear came in. The site was in Dutch, had very limited information, and was build and maintened by 1 person only (zappy?). The year must have been early 2000's... 2000-2001 or something, and is since long gone.
Oh yes, I remember Zappy, and it must have been the first rainwear fetish site I've seen
He also had some links to other sites like that of Jacob Rubber and Rubby 12.
The internet archive still has copies of many of these sites, if you know the links. Nice for a short trip down Memory Lane:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050829231 ... nl/~zappy/ (Zappy)
https://web.archive.org/web/20050623012 ... _boots.htm (Jacob Rubber, ca. 2005)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060502115 ... index.html (Rubby12)
Things have become a bit different over the years now that there's also a lot of material on Instagram and other 'general' websites and networks.
Thats the one, great find in the archives. I knew it was possible to find pages back this way, but hadn't got a clue how to actually do it.
Reading the story of the Agu rainwear brought back some memories for sure, and I still like his writing style a lot (not too serious, word jokes, etc). I remember saving the pictures of the box the rainsuit came in on a floppy disk to take home, as I didn't have internet at home back then.
The site helped me a lot accepting my like for rainwear. It was great reading I wasn't the only one in the world.