Blast from the past

Good grief. Those things where the rain runs down into the pleats and onto the ties and then drips down your neck and cleavage!

I remember some old ladies even wearing them over their hats!
(My granny was one...)

As attractive as a Pakamac! My dad always had a dark grey one in his work bag.

Been on ebay and you can buy them for 99p! Must rush and get my order in.......

A rainmate over a hairnet was such a fetching look.

Bon Marche selling them at the moment £2 each Don't get crushed in the rush!!

My elderly neighbour still wears them

I'd forgotten about rainmates and pacamacs. It was part of our holiday preparations to get a new pacamac each year as we holidayed in the UK and were never very luck weather wise lol.

I remember rainmates from my schooldays in the 1950s. Most of us had one - the West Coast of Scotland is a wet area!

We HAD to have one to keep our lovely school hat dry!

Blimey! Remember having to wear one (compulsory for convent school uniform) over straw boater when it rained, otherwise said headwear went sort of floppy and stank of fish paste......... Assume glue used to fashion the ruddy hat contained fish products.
Makes me cringe to think of it now!

When my mother moved from her flat to a care home we had to clear most of her wardrobe. In almost every coat pocket and handbag we found one of the plastic hats. There must have been about 20 of them ! She was obviously never going to be caught out without one !

I can see mum on her push bike wearing hers when it rained. She cycled to and from work in the '60s. Also she had her hair set every Saturday morning and would cover up her 'do' if it was damp weather.

Do you remember the waterproof overshoes you could put on to protect your shoes from wet conditions? Galoshes, I think.

I never had galoshes but lived and died in my wellies whenever it was wet. I also wore a liberty bodice from the end of autumn to the end of spring.

Oh yes, annodomini galoshes were compulsary garden wear for my father when digging the vegetable patch! I'd forgotten all about them until your post.

There was also some gunge you could rub into your hands before gardening to make it easier to clean them when you washed them - Rosalex??? Don't know what was in it, but it did work.

Oh, liberty bodices!! I'd forgotten about them....did yours have rubber buttons??

The buttons always broke in half.

Our local pharmacy sells rain mates, so, I bought one for extreme emergencies. Though it might give me a retro look!

Yes, my liberty bodices had rubber buttons and my kilt had a liberty bodice attached. [Anno] ?

Oops, Anno?

But what were all those extra buttons for??

It shows how often I look in (or clean) my wardrobe but I found 2 packa macs hanging there!

I wasn't aware of extra buttons, just two at the front for fastening.

I do remember the kilt with liberty bodice attached, Agus. I think, as it was war time, it was a hand-me-down from my cousins. Younger sisters had new ones!