Second hand rainwear

[Rainworshipper]

There must be a good few members on here who tend to look for rainwear in charity shops, car boot sales etc., and I am one who does. Who has a top notch item that they dream of finding? In my case it would be a yellow Peter Storm cagoule and matching overtrousers. Never found one yet but I have bought some good bits of rainwear in the last 12 months.

[Pvcboy2004]

I also love to find a good bargain to classic PVC Rainwear

[polyamid100]

In Germany, there was a certain yellow cagoule at the end of the 70s. The jacket had a short blue zipper and you could put it in the breast pocket. It was made of shiny bright yellow nylon. There was no brand label anywhere on the jacket. It just said size 1-7, 100% polyamide and "wipe clean only with a damp cloth", which I found significant in retrospect. This jacket was my first contact with this preference for rainwear made of nylon. I wish I could find this in a large size in a charity shop or flea market. There are a lot of childhood memories associated with it. Although I now have a large collection of nylon jackets, these are my favourite.
But finding a jacket like this is like winning the lottery.

[mason]

I absolutely love checking out all of my local opportunity shops, although it is becoming harder and harder to find really good rainwear nowadays.

Many of them are now chain stores (Vinnies, Salvos) rather than stores serving a single, local charity and they've almost all gone upmarket in terms of layout and decor - with prices to match. Vinnies are the worst for this They are so boring, plain and generic that it's not funny.

I really miss the lovely, grungy haphazardly laid out op shops where you literally never knew what you would find. They still exist, but mainly far out country.

However, they ARE still out there. You've just got to put in the time and effort. Only last Saturday I got lucky and found an absolutely gorgeous classic Aussie-made Dunlop shiny black rubber raincoat manufactured way back in the sixties. It even came with an original belt. Oh, and it was also a perfect fit.

Some of my other all-time great finds were a number of jelly jackets in one shop, a pair of unlined PVC waders that fitted me like a glove, a shiny yellow one-piece pair of rain overalls, varying plastic macs and so on. The Dunlop mac is the fourth such vintage rubber raincoat I've unearthed. In almost thirty years of effort.

Unfortunately, these kind of finds are so few and far between that I can (nowadays) go a year without finding anything worthwhile.

[discoruss]

I one of them.
Definitely can relayed to this.

Always looking in charity shops and get to go to car boots once in awhile. I myself did find a yellow Peter Storm cagoule and trouser suit but sold it. Got excited and just bought it and then realised it was too small for me. Shame.

What I really would like is a royal blue overhead Peter Storm cagoule. Never had one and hopefully get lucky one day.

[ilikecoated]

The slightly shiny blue vintage Rukka ladies jacket that you can see from around 6 minutes in my video was from a charity shop and did cost me next to nothing. It did even loose some of its typical charity shop smell from the boiling. Maybe I will even wear it now for a few times before it will get "killed".

https://youtu.be/vc7Wx6rtigQ

[kinkydenn]

The slightly shiny blue vintage Rukka ladies jacket that you can see from around 6 minutes in my video was from a charity shop and did cost me next to nothing. It did even loose some of its typical charity shop smell from the boiling. Maybe I will even wear it now for a few times before it will get "killed".

https://youtu.be/vc7Wx6rtigQ

I would love to wear all that gear before it gets killed!

[rubbermackintosh]

Try the Red Cross Collectors Corner shop in Cambridge. They get lots of student's cast offs, specially at the end of terms and academic years. I once got a near perfect blue Rukka three quarter length there for a fiver. I still have it and it still almost as good as new.

[annabell-cagoule]

I love popping into charity shops on rainwear hunts, my best find was a like new Red Peter Storm full zip, coupled with a red white and blue version, £5 each!! Bonus as my size too,
Has to be my best finds.

Found an xxl blue full zip PS cagoule a few weeks back for £6 but it was far to big and was a bit dirty and faded so left it on the rack.

Definitely not as many as used to be, i wonder if one of those vintage kilo fairs has cagoules? Anyone been to one?

[Anotherraincoat]

Always on the look out for nylon cagoules and trousers, in the charity shops, just recently,well a few months back, found a blue nylon hiking jacket made by spraway. Tried on and purchased straight away. Walked out the shop and couldn’t resist wearing the rest of my journey home, and had some fun indoors.