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[blackmacjay]

Well, I realize that this is not exactly a rainwear topic but I thought some readers may be amused anyway.

I am lucky enough to live in a part of the world where this is possible.

Yesterday afternoon I was sitting outside in my back garden in warm sunshine. I was on the phone to a girlfriend and I had a scotch and water on the table.

I was wearing a pure rubber robe which came, I believe, from Weathervain in England. Suddenly, my gardening service arrived and they saw me and they didn't turn a hair. So I just sat there, rubber robe and all, until the noise of their leaf blowers drove me inside.

My point is, I think we who have any kind of fetish worry about what other people may think. And we should not because most people don't care. Most, if not all concerns, are in our head.

Another point is that during a rain storm last week, I had a lunch date at a little cafe close to home and so I chose to walk dressed in my single-texture mackintosh. I should point out that I did have an umbrella as well and beneath the mackintosh I was properly attired.

No eyebrows were raised then either and those 2 events taught me a lot.

Enjoy!!!

[Jjai]

I think the more you wear your raingear in public the less you care about being noticed or looked at. Most of the time it is only the wearer who gets self conscious and feels nervous about being stared at or have someone remark to them.
Obviously bright coloured or way out designs may get noticed but I think for the most part if a male wears a dull or Black coloured mackintosh especially when the conditions call for it then you won't get noticed, when it is raining hard enough nobody cares what you are wearing!

[JoPVC]

Hello. I'm a 64-year-old man. I've always had a great passion for waxed or PVC raincoats since I was 10 or 12 years old. I always lacked the courage to wear my raincoats outside the house. For the past few years, I've done it occasionally, and it's true that even if I run into people I know, I've never received any unpleasant comments. And besides, if someone doesn't like them, they're not obligated to look at me!

[Rainworshipper]

Hello. I'm a 64-year-old man. I've always had a great passion for waxed or PVC raincoats since I was 10 or 12 years old. I always lacked the courage to wear my raincoats outside the house. For the past few years, I've done it occasionally, and it's true that even if I run into people I know, I've never received any unpleasant comments. And besides, if someone doesn't like them, they're not obligated to look at me!

This is pretty much the same for me, if it is raining wearing a PVC raincoat hardly looks out of place, in any case most people are too busy battling through the elements to take much notice. In the last few years I have even started to wear my PVC shorts in public, although most people do not notice them below my cagoule or anorak.

[WealdenMac]

We engaged carpet suppliers to fit a new carpet in our bedroom. We and they knew there wasn't enough room to move our double bed out of the bedroom so we reckoned they would have to work round it. They did-but one of them thought it best to remove the drawers in the divan anyway thus exposing my collection of mackintosh, rainwear and rubber magazines. We all carried on as if nothing untoward had happened.