Here Comes the Rain Again-Eurythmics
Posted: September 28th, 2019, 8:17 pm
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It looked like the waterproof material we knew in the UK as oilskin when I was young. Used principally for workwear,it was a bit stiffer and more grainy than the shiny PVC that was then coming into use for fashion rainwear. An archaeology student I dated at university (who much later moved over to bat for the other side) practically lived in her heavy duty oilskin jacket. I do acknowledge that the term oilskin is used for other waterproof materials elsewhere e.g. in Australia where I have seen it used to described what I would call waxed clothing. To complicate matters further I have had a French enthusiast insist that what I and many others call shiny PVC is in fact "waxed".blackmacjay wrote: September 30th, 2019, 11:46 am Is this Oilskin? To me, it doesn't but I confess I don't know what the material is?