OT: Packaway raincoat

[Tim Streater]

Shitty colours though. How about something that matches the environment a bit better.

[Huge]

If you're stamping about on a Scottish hillside in the pissing rain, the last thing you want is something that "matches the environment". And if, more likely, you're wearing it in a town, who cares?

[Huge]

Thanks very much for all the replies. I am not consulting with SWMBO.

[Tim Streater]

You're not a Septic are you? I know they are good at uglification, but no need to do it here. People have no style these days.

[charles]

If you have an accident and the rescuers need to find you, wearing camoflage is the last thing you'd want.

[Huge]

Style? In a packaway raincoat? Don't be ridiculous. Most of them look like a binbag with arms.

[Tim Streater]

Funny, then, how when I used to go hiking in the Alps, people typically wore nicer colours. Course it's warmer there and any accident is likely to be terminal anyway.

On a Scottish hillside you can always put the bright jacket on after the accident. In fact, you'd probably need to.

[Tim Streater]

Precisely.

[Huge]

Which was my point ...

[Adrian Caspersz]

OK, it arrived. Hermes delivery at their usual camel pace...

It will certainly do the job, I'll no longer swim like a fish.

It's "100% polyamide", silky feel on the outside and a rubberised feel inside. Large fits me well, generous hood, weighs 300g, packs to

23x10x10cm. Machine washable, no bleach, no tumble dry.

Slight concern is I had an old jacket with a rain hood, that had a similar rubberised coating inside that eventually separated in a sticky mess - I'm wondering if this is the same coating, though scraping it doesn't yield any clues as yet - unless that one failed by washing incorrectly.

What malady killed your old coat?

[Huge]

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The same. It was a Peter Storm mid-length single-layer coat with a zipper and velcro closure up the front, made from woven synthetic fibre with an interior coating. IIRC, I bought it in a outdoorsey shop in Keswick. It lasted several decades, but then the lining started to coming off, starting at the seams, and as a result it started to leak. But then it didn't owe me anything by then. I bought a Cotton Traders lined raincoat from a CT outlet store to replace and it's nothing like as good, plus being lined it doesn't roll up as small.