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MrDoudy wrote: April 11th, 2022, 12:01 pm I like wet rainwear but find a difference between plastic and nylon. I remember as a young man once wearing my plastic Pakamac on my Vespa motor scooter for 6 hours in the pouring rain and I was still dry underneath it. However much more recently I went out in a nylon Pakamac for the first time in many years and after only about half an hour the rain had soaked through it. However I rather liked the resulting wet clamminess of the nylon, and was glad I'd retained Pakamacs in both nylon and plastic.

MrDoudy wrote: April 11th, 2022, 12:01 pm I like wet rainwear but find a difference between plastic and nylon. I remember as a young man once wearing my plastic Pakamac on my Vespa motor scooter for 6 hours in the pouring rain and I was still dry underneath it. However much more recently I went out in a nylon Pakamac for the first time in many years and after only about half an hour the rain had soaked through it. However I rather liked the resulting wet clamminess of the nylon, and was glad I'd retained Pakamacs in both nylon and plastic.

MrDoudy wrote: April 13th, 2022, 10:38 pm I had started off in my hometown of High Wycombe in Bucks. My destination was the University of Nottingham. I didn't have a girl on the back seat but was actually visiting a girl, the fiance of a friend of mine, who was a lecturer at a college at the University. The journey took 6 hours because the top speed of my Vespa motor scooter was only 35 mph but of course I averaged a lot less and made several rest stops. The college at the University was an all-ladies college and as I'd been invited to dine with the Principal of the College, I wore a suit under my plastic mac (everything was more formal in those days)! Though my plastic mac kept most of the rain out I remember some got behind the buttoned-up collar of my plastic Pakamac, and coloured dye from my tie ran over the white collar of my shirt. In those days (1961) I wore shirts of the old-fashioned type that had separate collars attached to the collarless shirt by collar-studs so was able to change into a clean collar on arrival!

MrDoudy wrote: April 13th, 2022, 10:38 pm I had started off in my hometown of High Wycombe in Bucks. My destination was the University of Nottingham. I didn't have a girl on the back seat but was actually visiting a girl, the fiance of a friend of mine, who was a lecturer at a college at the University. The journey took 6 hours because the top speed of my Vespa motor scooter was only 35 mph but of course I averaged a lot less and made several rest stops. The college at the University was an all-ladies college and as I'd been invited to dine with the Principal of the College, I wore a suit under my plastic mac (everything was more formal in those days)! Though my plastic mac kept most of the rain out I remember some got behind the buttoned-up collar of my plastic Pakamac, and coloured dye from my tie ran over the white collar of my shirt. In those days (1961) I wore shirts of the old-fashioned type that had separate collars attached to the collarless shirt by collar-studs so was able to change into a clean collar on arrival!

nylondk wrote: April 11th, 2022, 9:49 am Are there others who love wet rainwear. I love bathing in my nylon rainwear and without any wonder, and feeling how it sticks to my body. The way it shines and feels is just lovely. This applies to both a walk in the shower or a trip to the beach

MrDoudy wrote: April 14th, 2022, 3:43 pm Ha ha! My formative days were spent in High Wycombe, a lot of the time in a plastic pakamac or failing that, on my bike wearing a yellow oilskin or later PVC cycle cape and souwester, so I've fond memories of the place!