Pakamac

Wow, Brian, I had no idea that M&S still did pakamacs. I have one or two nylon ones, I think dating back to the seventies.

I have bought 4 Pakamacs this week-is this a record? From Marks and Spencer, e-bay and Rainmac Trader. One cannot keep such extravagance to oneself. Have a good waterproof week, all of you, especially Susan.

Thank you Brian. I was, in fact, referring to the idea of a pakamac wearers society, and for the gathering of like-minded people, together in one location. Just imagine the rustling and swishing.

Hugh, you already in! Please stay in! Waterproof wishes.

Count me in.

susan what a lot of pix on flickr you have gone to a lot of trouble well done.

sounds great idea but guess we are spread all over the country .Be nice to have pakama wearers page i would send comments and pix

We should definitely make a film, "50 Shades of Pakamac Grey".

For years and years I've been saying, Brian, that we should have a Pakamac Wearers Society.

Perhaps all the regular contributors to this website should meet up and have a Pakamac convention-in showery weather, of course. How about it?

At school, every boy's plastic Pakamac told its own story. No two were every exactly alike, especially when rolled up. Pakamacs...plastic pakamacs...sheer heaven. Have a lovely day!

plastic mackintoshes are my favourite. But i also have nylon mackintosh for going out. Unless very warm i wear my mackintosh to go out even when dry. always fully done up and if cold or even chance of rain hood up. I have a kink that a strict person is making me wear my mackintosh.

I quite agree Beverly, for I wear my plastic rainwear whenever I can, I like them that much, and always have done, ever since I was a young lad.

However, without such long lost manufacturers such as Pakamac – my favourite – and Jiffymac, as well as PlastiMac and others such as Woolworth's used to retail, who flourished in the sixties through to the early eighties, we wouldn’t have the nostalgia we have for them for them today.

And I so agree with you Beverly, plastic raincoats - or whatever you may wish to call them - are so nice to wear whenever one can, to get that – oh so good protective feeling – that nothing else can compare with.

Here, here, Bev... and let us not forget nylon mackintoshes, too.

Couldn't agree more, Beverley mr! One of the main reasons for wearing plastic and nylon macs is for dating like-minded partners. Have a good waterproof day, rain or not!

do not know why people think plastic mackintoshes are only for keeping out the rain. They are good for that but for me main purpose is for looking a feeling good.

It is only 9.45, and I have worn two plastic macs already. The only thing is, it isn't raining...... Never mind, have a good day, all you waterproof enthusiasts.

typing wearing my blue see thru plastic mackintosh nearest i can get to a pakamac.

nice area north wales. lots of rain so lots of mackintosh wearing. Not that i need rain i wear my mackintosh most of time regardless of weather.

Hello everyone, off to North Wales this weekend, Llandudno, and then the Derbyshire Peak District near Castleton, and given the forecast is for rain, I will certainly be wearing my genuine Pakamac plastic rainwear. So do look out for me if you are in those areas.

Best wishes.

plasticpakamac@gmail.com

now wearing my mock leopard skin nylon mackintosh with hood up. For me to pakamc is my first love but where to get one anyone know. So wish i had got a stock pile when they were in fashion. At that time never thought they would disapear and without warning.

Lovely, lovely, LOVELY remarks from Plastic Pakamac.

wearing my favourite turquios nylon mackintosh this morning. Wearing the hood up. And belt tight. Will be going out soon sun is out but navy mackintosh will be on.

It's so nice to hear there are others who really enjoy wearing Pakamac rainwear, but for myself, I so prefer the original genuine Pakamac plastic ones, although nylon ones are quite nice too, for there is something about the original filmy grey men’s plastic raincoats that are just so cosy to wear, and even today I wear mine as often as I can.

My first introduction was when I was about ten or eleven years old when my elder brother was given a filmy grey one for school, so I so pestered my mum to get one for me too, which my brother liked as well, and so mum did, even getting one for herself, a pale translucent blue one, as well as one for dad in translucent grey, and I haven’t stopped wearing them ever since, and still do.

But I wonder if others wear their Pakamac rainwear in a very special way, for to me it actually feels rather cosy, especially wearing it next to one’s skin. I don’t know why, but it just does, and was always a feature of my progression through puberty to being an adult.

And that is why I have what must be a unique collection of Pakamac plastic raincoats from the sixties to the time they stopped producing them in the early nineteen eighties, when the Pakamac Factory at Chadderton was sadly destroyed by fire, ending the English made raincoats forever, so sad, and even more sadly missed.

But please do contact me if you have similar memories of wearing Pakamac plastic rainwear so we can share each others memories of such things, for I even write about those times, when plastic rainwear was so very common.

Plastic Pakamac.

It probably wasn't vintage, then, when you bought it. Like yourself I'm always in a nylon mackintosh when on this site. I think, possibly, we all are.

I am always wearing a nylon or plastic mac when on this page. at present in rustling cream nylon mackintosh from c & a so guess is vintage. Found in a charity shop few years back.

Susan, we are two of a kind.

I guess that my comment will not be well received when I say that I hated wearing gabardine raincoats when I was at school. There was always a new one at the start of each school year but they never held any allure for me then and still don't now.
The effect on me with my first plastic Pakamac, though, was instant and everlasting. Yes the buttonholes would rip eventually but there was always one with me and I'd pester for more. Then came nylon macs and another unending love for those too.
I have never owned as many genuine Pakamacs as I do nowadays. I practically live in them. Those people who know me, know that to be fact.

Hello Allan. I have read your post with real interest. Your story mirrors my own, and I feel that we have much in common. I can be contacted on hughdavies957@yahoo.com should you fancy a chat?

Hello Mactim

Thank you for the kind offer. I'll drop you a message over the next couple of days if that's OK. You're right we seem to have lots of similarities!!