Re: 'Billy Liar' (UK sitcom from 1974) S02-E03 'Billy and a Birthday'. Elizabeth Lax ('Sheila') in a shiny red C&A PVC m
Posted: October 8th, 2024, 1:10 pm
Yeah, the noise is quite wonderful isn't it?PlasticRainMac wrote: October 4th, 2024, 7:41 pm Cor, the crackling/rustling noise of that shiny red PVC mac gets my pulse racing!
That's definitely PVC (I don't think it is PU), but I wonder what the plasticizer is?
Where can one find traditional raincoats or puffer jackets/bubble coats made from ultra-shiny and crackly PVC like this? In shiny red or shiny black?
All the contemporary shiny or wetlook puffer jackets are made from a non-PVC material and are nowhere near as shiny as this, nor do they make the same 'crackling' noise. Only PVC, made in a certain way and containing a specific plasticizer, makes this noise and is shiny to this degree. Is the 'formula' for this ultra-shiny and 'crackly' PVC lost to history?
This 1974 sitcom was years before I was born, and I wish I was born in an earlier era so that I could enjoy PVC in its 'heyday'.
