Funerals.

[WealdenMac]

Attended the funeral of an old friend, in thick drizzle, on Wednesday and was struck by the fact that while, as is usual on these occasions, there was a coterie of young/youngish women dressed in black, unusually there was not a black pvc/pu mac or a black leather skirt to be seen. Made up for it yesterday however, when alighting from the train at Chichester were two attractive women both wearing fawn, single texture mackintoshes on what was, as forecast, a bright, dry day. You never can tell.

[udoughnut]

I've seen some good sightings in Chichester before, definitely a well dressed/appropriate dressed residential area!

[WealdenMac]

I've seen some good sightings in Chichester before, definitely a well dressed/appropriate dressed residential area!

Combination of "old money", countryside and horses perhaps.

[Cherie]

I went to a funeral in the late 80’s where a woman wore a shiny black PVC trench coat. No idea who she was, but I was transfixed. Seemed totally the wrong situation to approach her, so I didn’t, but what a lovely sight! Maybe it was the only black thing she had to wear.

Cherie xxxxxxxx

[Rainworshipper]

I went to a funeral in the late 80’s where a woman wore a shiny black PVC trench coat. No idea who she was, but I was transfixed. Seemed totally the wrong situation to approach her, so I didn’t, but what a lovely sight! Maybe it was the only black thing she had to wear.

Cherie xxxxxxxx
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PVC coats were fairly common up to the end of the 1980's, after this I gradually began to notice them less often.

[Nylon macs]

I have made it quite clear to my wife that she should wear a long black PVC mac to my funeral. She agreed whole heartedly.

I also had a friend one who was buried, at his request, in one of his wife’s pvc macs.

Sounds wonderful way to be buried in a lovely ladys pvc mac .
I would request to have it put on me back to front and the hood up over my face pulled nice and tightly. Just incase I'm not dead. But will definitely be after 5 minute in the mac .faster way than being buried alive in a coffin .

[Cherie]

Reminds me of a film I watched when I was in my early 20’s. Not funerals though…

Aliens had taken over a big warehouse and were harvesting something from humans. The room was filled with naked people all sealed in plastic bags. The camera angles made sure nothing naughty was seen, but I remember wishing I was in one of them. Not being sucked out by aliens who looked just normal people, but as an extra on the film, because I realised they were real people who got paid to be vacuum sealed safely in lovely see-through plastic.

Cherie x