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While we're on the subject of old TV memories I remembered this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VypcIt ... re=related

the fun starts around 11:35

Fantastic Ray. I only remember watching the odd episode & obviously never saw this one. I would definately have remembered this. What a fantastic mac just a shame she didn't have it buttoned up but I suppose we shouldn't be too critical.
Thanks for posting

What a terrific scene! ....thanks again Ray.I only watched occasional episodes also so this one passed me by too.She looks gorgeous in that red plastic mac...great times (sigh!).

Yes I agree, she and it look lovely. What a pillock he was, when she bent over him, he seemed to be frightened to touch the mac! I know i would.

Any more from that series? Don't know what happened to Emma Wray, but Liza Tarbuck (daughter of Jimmy, almost had a coffee chain named after her) is still about as I saw her on a documentary about Vietnam.

Oh for such delicious macs to return in general use. Emma looked so natural and comfortable in it.

Id forgotten how good the clip was until i saw it again this morning

I cant remember seeing her wearing that mac again

but there is an episode somewhere where they go camping and she wears a green nylon cagoule - i think i might have posted that on here before

Aaaaahh great stuff. Don't you sometimes wonder why they are wearing raincoats?, particularly in scenes like this when they have come indoors and it wasn't raining outside anyway! In some cases I guess the scenes relating to why it is being worn have been cut.

Now then, anyone remember scenes in 'The Squirrels', 'Star Town' and 'Golddiggers in London'???

Phil.

as I remember Plasphil the raincoats were actually quite fashionable for a couple of years in the 1980s and girls would wear them as coats rather than specifically just for rainwear. I think the coloured macs like that blended well into the garish 80s fashions so it was a natural thing to do.

Like Merv says in those days it wasnt really considered 'rainwear' more just a fashion to add colour to the streets

Now we dont even see much rainwear in the rain

Yes, I remember going into a shop that had one rack just dedicated to one style, there must have been 20-30 macs in there, all in bright colours. I have a copy of the Sunday Times Magazine of the nineties i think, which was doing among other things a fashion history sort of thing. It showed a woman in a seethru mac in1986 and they seemed to be indicating that was the start of the fashion. I will post it when I can. What was particularly different from the plastic macs of the sixties and earlier was the drawstring hood. I was living in the tropics then, so wasn't aware of the new fashion, but when I returned to the UK in 1978, on a visit to London's Oxford Street, I was amazed, and of course delighted, to see the range available, in almost every shop. I was July, and outside every one of those rather tacky souvenir shops between Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road they had translucent macs on display. i thought heaven had arrived. I remember buying a glass clear one - very sticky! - and a pale blue very long one with buttoned cuffs and a drawstring belt that was at empire line level, just under the bust. It had an enormous hood.

Jelly jackets were also all the rage, but the long macs were also readily available, and shops like Peacocks and C&A were very happy hunting grounds. C&A in particular seemed to specialize, and changed styles regularly.

They were also occasionally available from Women's magazines such as 'She' on a special offer. And yes, really until 1982, they remained a fashion item, as mentioned worn not only for rain protection.

Perhaps one day someone will write a history of plastic macs, well illustrated of course.

great episode, the mac looks like one from C&A , my girlfriend at the time had one but in purple and in my flickr photostream I have pics of a girl in the same red mac as in watching..great times