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It’s rainy and quite cold today so the dresscode for todays dogwalk will be rainwear and something warming.

I will chose a thin nylon down jacket and my 2 layers nylon rainwear, jacket and pants. And I will wear them on my bare skin. Some parts of my walk will be in the village and some parts in the forrest. Many times during my dogwalks I meet others with dogs, men and women in rainwear.
They don’t know that I wear my rainwear on my bare skin, and I don’t know what they have under their rainwear.

The only time I know that there is not so much under is when I walk with our neighbour wife. Most of the time she just have some top and no bra under her puffers or rainwear. You can tell from all jiggling and bouncing in her jacket, her jackets really come alive.

Do you go out in public with your rainwear on your bare skin? Do you get a thrill out of beeing secretly naked in your rainwear and nobody knows when you meet them?

I think it’s really exciting! But I was more careful at the time we had thin nylon rainwear in the 80-90:s. To easy to see thru when wet and if you got excited, it could be clearly seen on the outside.

Just to my posting above.

Frozen after my dogwalk, I took a shower in my old, white nylon one piece overall from the 90:s.
Like I wrote above, it was almost transparent because it was made of thin nylon. And when wet, it’s almost 100% transparent. I will never take a walk in that overall but it’s nice to play with.

My neighbour wife had a similar white one as a windbreaker when we were sailing but always she had something under. Quite a shame, had been exciting to see her when her overall got wet. She and her husband had so nice sailing gear, both heavy overalls and thin ones. Thick rustling nylon overalls from Helly Hansen.

Have any of you had one piece sailing gear? Thick or thin?

In my expereince the ideal thing to do when wanting to walk out wearing rainwear is to wear a completely air and watertight sailing drysuit made out of the old type of non breathable fabric. If you can find one these are quite heavy nylon coated with a really smooth either pvc or neoprene rubber coating on the inside that covers your entire body up to the neck including your feet. Even the zipper is watertight and there is tight rubber seals at the wrists and neck. With the air gently sucked out these suits are really low bulk. These feel amazing especially if you remove all the air like a vacumn bag. Over the top I normally then wear one or several layers of normal 1990s heavy neoprene coated 3/4 length nylon parka and matching overtrousers depending on the temperature. I have several royal blue field and trek suits in this style. With this/these zipped up over the chin and a pair of wellingtons over the drysuits rubber feet and under the over trousers no one can be any the wiser especially if it is raining heavily. The only snag is that when walking the suits all together make a racket with all the crackling and swishing noises. Lucky for me the dog walking public seem none the wiser. I suspect this is just me feeling self conscious. Over the years I have even managed to pluck up the courage to say a jaunty "Good morning" as I crackle and swish past. Sadly in this modern age of berghaus gortex I never see anyone in similar dress anymore where I live. A shame really as 20 years ago loads of people used to wear various Peter Storm and sprayway jackets and trousers.

This set up works really well and if layered correctly you arrive home totally soaked on the inside with no visible signs from the outside. I did get it wrong once with too many layers. The sun also came out half way through the walk when still a distance from home and I arrived home overheated with puddles in each of my dry feet. On that walk even though I was literally steaming on the inside I was still safe from discovery and had put down my hoods together to make them look like one. I not sure anyone noticed the light dew of perspiraation on my forehead as I walked briskly past swishing loudly.

Does anyone else try this tactic. Using a drysuit is also a good thing to do inside when left on your own home alone. It keeps all the drips in and requires only one item to be washed out afterwards. I have stayed clad like this for many hours in the past even whilst doing home jobs. I never get tired of the feeling. I have modified one of my drysuits to have a latex hood and attached gloves and if used with a locking timer there is no way to get out until released.