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Gaberdino wrote: June 15th, 2025, 8:32 pm Precisely so @rives. Good to know you’re another who adores the female form in a trenchcoat.

I also experienced wearing a regulation gaberdine mackintosh to school, much to my dismay. Always belted and fastened to the neck, with a full length nylon pakamac when it rained heavily.

I'm with you Gaberdino. Nothing to match the sight of a young woman in a Burberry trenchcoat, fastened to the neck, and belted tightly.

Not nylon shorts, no. But I was made to wear grey short trousers and knee length socks at a time Most boys wore longs. When this was combined with a three quarter or full length nylon pakamac, buttoned to the neck, the effect was (at the time) mortifying.


Probably in a much earlier time than ...

Yes i also wore navy nylon shorts for sports as my mum was the same they cleaned so easy. And also i wore a navy nylon girls raincoat my mum had been given, it did not matter to her it fastened on girls side.


Not wishing to fully change the topic of this thread, but I was also put into a girls ...

I regularly enjoy being forced into my gaberdine mackintosh and nylon pakamac, along with short trousers and knee length socks. The complete schoolboy look, in fact.

Like Andy and Rives I too was made to wear my plastic pacamacs with their wonderful large rubbery buttons fully fastened to the throat up to the time I left school age 18 on all occasions except for school wear, when the regulation gabardine raincoat had to be worn. For economy, mine were always ...

Remember that so clearly. No messing about it had to be put on.


Always, Andy. And buttoned to the neck (always top down), whether for school, cubs/scouts, or church


Exactly right. I had to wear mine anytime we went out. Like you buttoned from top down.
Really humiliating at the best of ...

Andyf08 wrote: October 23rd, 2024, 5:18 pm

Rives wrote: October 23rd, 2024, 5:15 pm The holding up of the mac ny my mother resonates with me, too

Remember that so clearly. No messing about it had to be put on.

Always, Andy. And buttoned to the neck (always top down), whether for school, cubs/scouts, or church

The holding up of the mac ny my mother resonates with me, too

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