One of my favourite sites for rainwear pictures and videos was rainfash. There were regular updates, with a section of pictures of rainwear taken from old mail order catalogues. The site also contained a wonderful selection of video cuts from films with rainwear scenes. The home page had a 'rotating' set of pictures, one of which was a posting I had made some years ago taken from the label of a C&A plastic mac of the 1980's.
Sadly, I have not seen anything of this site for some time. Is it now dead?
Where is Rainfash these days?
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Hi Taff,]
Thanks for that.
The picture I referred to, from a C&A (oh how sad that they closed in UK) label is one of the middle ones, of an attractive woman in blue plastic mac holding an umbrella. i think I've still got the label somewhere.
Thanks for that.
The picture I referred to, from a C&A (oh how sad that they closed in UK) label is one of the middle ones, of an attractive woman in blue plastic mac holding an umbrella. i think I've still got the label somewhere.
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Re: Where is Rainfash these days?
Do you mean these labels ?
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Oh yes, I remember those two labels from C&A; the picture in the one on the left is the same as that on Rainfash’s site, but with the latter lightened and reversed. The other one is strange as it looks as if the mac does not have a hood, even though it is supposed to.
C&A’s departure from UK was a sad loss. I spent many hours in their shops, going through the plastic macs of different styles over the years. Whenever I visited a town with a C&A I would check out their rainwear section. The only comparable shop was Peacocks for macs in the mid 80’s. I well remember buying a glass clear mac from one of their Oxford Street branches way back in 1967. The hems, pockets, and collars were edged in white plastic. I gave it to my wife, with the excuse that I had found it abandoned on the train one evening on the way home.
C&A holds a particularly momentous connection for me for a visit my wife and I made to the Southampton shop in July 1985. I can’t even remember what we had gone in for, but my wife saw a large circular rack of plastic macs, and started to look through them. I should say at this point that we had never discussed my love of plastic (although had owned five different plastic or pvc raincoats before then as well as a jelly jacket in the late 70’s). I was inwardly shaking with excitement at this, and when she pulled one out of the rack and slipped it on; when she asked me how it looked, I struggled to speak. She had chosen one in green, hood with drawstring, same model as the one on the left. Eventually I said how good it was, but asked if she would prefer another colour. I particularly loved the blue. She clearly preferred the green and soon it was at the checkout, wrapped and in a bag.
Then came the hard time. I waited what seemed like ages before it next rained. My opportunity came one night when we were due to go out, but were delayed by a massive thunderstorm. We stood at our bedroom window, watching the lightning crashing around us, with me behind her holding her to me through her lovely green mac. Eventually we went out, she put the hood up, and the mac got slippery wet. It was such a pleasure helping her out of it and the theatre we went to, and although I can remember little of the play, I clearly recall helping her back into it afterwards, and walking arm in arm home through the drizzle.
But that wasn’t the end of it. One night, a month or so later, when we were making love, but I wasn’t managing to harden, she slipped out of bed and went to her wardrobe. Next moment she climbed back in, clad in the lovely plastic mac. She had obviously been aware for many years of the effect plastic rainwear had on me.
That mac stayed with us for a few more years, but eventually had to be replaced due to excessive wear and tear. I bought three matching macs from C&A, the model in thin vertical stripes of clear and colour, in blue yellow and green. Sadly, only the blue one survives.
C&A’s departure from UK was a sad loss. I spent many hours in their shops, going through the plastic macs of different styles over the years. Whenever I visited a town with a C&A I would check out their rainwear section. The only comparable shop was Peacocks for macs in the mid 80’s. I well remember buying a glass clear mac from one of their Oxford Street branches way back in 1967. The hems, pockets, and collars were edged in white plastic. I gave it to my wife, with the excuse that I had found it abandoned on the train one evening on the way home.
C&A holds a particularly momentous connection for me for a visit my wife and I made to the Southampton shop in July 1985. I can’t even remember what we had gone in for, but my wife saw a large circular rack of plastic macs, and started to look through them. I should say at this point that we had never discussed my love of plastic (although had owned five different plastic or pvc raincoats before then as well as a jelly jacket in the late 70’s). I was inwardly shaking with excitement at this, and when she pulled one out of the rack and slipped it on; when she asked me how it looked, I struggled to speak. She had chosen one in green, hood with drawstring, same model as the one on the left. Eventually I said how good it was, but asked if she would prefer another colour. I particularly loved the blue. She clearly preferred the green and soon it was at the checkout, wrapped and in a bag.
Then came the hard time. I waited what seemed like ages before it next rained. My opportunity came one night when we were due to go out, but were delayed by a massive thunderstorm. We stood at our bedroom window, watching the lightning crashing around us, with me behind her holding her to me through her lovely green mac. Eventually we went out, she put the hood up, and the mac got slippery wet. It was such a pleasure helping her out of it and the theatre we went to, and although I can remember little of the play, I clearly recall helping her back into it afterwards, and walking arm in arm home through the drizzle.
But that wasn’t the end of it. One night, a month or so later, when we were making love, but I wasn’t managing to harden, she slipped out of bed and went to her wardrobe. Next moment she climbed back in, clad in the lovely plastic mac. She had obviously been aware for many years of the effect plastic rainwear had on me.
That mac stayed with us for a few more years, but eventually had to be replaced due to excessive wear and tear. I bought three matching macs from C&A, the model in thin vertical stripes of clear and colour, in blue yellow and green. Sadly, only the blue one survives.
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yes C&A was great for the plastic rainwear, they even did mens macs at some point but I fear that came to an end when they clearly did not sell. I remember racks and racks of them at only about an english pound each, not exactly expensive even in the eighties. If only it had occurred to me to buy afew instead of just one (might have realised they wouldnt carry on stocking them) when the chance was there. Have to wonder what happened to them all as they clearly were not selling.
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Yes I remember C&A and their lovely plastic macs. I bought half a dozen in different stores over the years during the eighties. I remember myself and my girlfriend going to watch a movie, both of us clad in our raingear and wellies. A group of young female students sat in front of us and they were all wearing raingear, rainpants tucked into wellies.
I was on a huge horn for the 90 mins of the film and couldn't wait to get out to see those students in the day light.
Don't know if they deliberately sat in the row of seats in front of us as we wore our raingear or if it was a coincidence. Bey hey it was an experience I shall never forget.
Alas, my gf and I broke up and I never saw a group of third level female students congregate in a cinema all wearing raingear and wellies again.
I was on a huge horn for the 90 mins of the film and couldn't wait to get out to see those students in the day light.
Don't know if they deliberately sat in the row of seats in front of us as we wore our raingear or if it was a coincidence. Bey hey it was an experience I shall never forget.
Alas, my gf and I broke up and I never saw a group of third level female students congregate in a cinema all wearing raingear and wellies again.