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I'm sure we are all familiar with the Singing in the Rain number from the 1929 Hollywood Review, sadly the 1952 movie was not very good and obviously could have been a lot better if it had featured a big rainwear number. I was wondering if these images from 1929 were the earliest rainwear pictures and 'moving pictures', I presume they were some sort of oilskin cloth?

Phil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMOb_4z3QfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUba07FwXSw

hmm, some of them actually look kind of pvc like, I suppose Holywood may have been in at the beginning of things. Do we know when pvc was actually invented?

They were plastic but not strictly pvc.

The earliest film with an oilskin it seems to be "Twelve Miles Out". (1927)



A young Joan Crawford is wearing it.

Domino

when google still had timeline I found these:

Nov 9, 1913 - Girls hanging on the arms of college as they splashed through the mud down 2' Street and Prospect Street on their way to the field, They were Co.'ered'.with rain:coats, rubber coats, slickers of glaring yellow oil skin and a rough, ' longshoreman s rubber hat covered up many a .




Apr 20, 1926 - GIRLS RAIN SLICKERS Every girl wants one Theyre the rage At this price there's no reason why your daughter should not have one All the shades the girls want Corduroy collars with straps Sizes 6 to 16 years.1.95 Pittsburgh

Suffrage protest march in 1917. Many ladies in oilskin and sou'wester hats

Some more of the 1917 Suffrage