Pakamac

hi Brian lets hear from you did you buy a sbr mackintosh or a pac a mac for Susan

Hi Brian have you got Susan a mackintosh yet

hi maybe we should say if you want a six pack wear a mac or do not put yourself on the rack wear a mac.

Hi if all the women in the UK read Jane comments about using up calories when walking in a plastic mac may be many more would wear them.

Do you know, Brian, I have always wanted an SBR mackintosh, but never had one. However if the choice was between a plastic Pakamac or SBR, the Pakamac would win every time. When PVC macs were easily found, I was in the checkout queue with a plastic mac in it's distinctive Pakamac logo bag.

Nice compliment, Frank, thanks very much!! I will try and post more.

Hi Brian your comments about macs are like a tonic more please

I think I know what see-through plastic jackets Susan has written about. Sue, I do hope you will purchase one (more than one, perhaps!), wear it and post it on Flickr, as you would model it superbly-as you do all waterproof items.
I would love to buy you an SBR rubber mac......

Hello Jane, what a great pleasure to chat with you; did you say you were one of the ladies on the Noel Edmunds show wearing your floral macs ? Yes, walking around Saddleworth in my plastic mac certainly burns off the calories but they are soon regained after a few pints of real ale in the excellent pubs in the area. Looking forward to walking around Blackpool in October, hope it rains. Regards, Jeff.

Hi Jeff its been a long time but i have done a saddleworth walk you can burn a lot of calories walking in a plastic mac

Hi Susan yes I seen a few pity they were not the long macs still its a start

Hello Susan, I was in the Saddleworth area last Friday for the Whit Friday walks. As it was raining I was wearing my see-through Jeantex Toni plastic mac. I saw four ladies wearing see-through plastic jackets, one with a white lace design (would that be Top Shop ?), another had a gold shimmer to it and the other two ladies had semi-see-through natural jackets which I think may have been from Primark. I also saw another young lady keeping dry by wearing a long see-through plastic mac with a drawstring hood. As well as enjoying myself wearing my own plastic mac, some really good sightings.

Has anyone else noticed the short see-thru plastic jackets that seem to have gained a degree of popularity with younger women? I've seen a few on ebay but I've been surprised to see them being worn by women out shopping too, in different parts of the UK. They are reminiscent of a style popular in the late 70s, not some horrid manifestation of a plastic poncho. I'd wear one myself.

Hi Frank - so you know where to go for a holiday next time.

Hi Colin thanks but I like to see the real Mccoy

Hi Frank.

Not been there but there's loads of photos of attractive women in rainwear in Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand on the internet if you hunt for them.

Hi Colin have you been and what country did you go to i just might vist

Don't go to the Orient during their rainy season Frank or your eyeballs will explode.

Hi I just have come back from a trip to Europe I seen quite a few ladies wearing PVC macs but back in the UK very rare.

Hi I do not care why who or for what reason men wear plastic macs just let see some women wearing them

The situation re plastic macs has come about through the press, films and comedians all giving them a negative image and dragging them through the mire in doing so.
The Sunday press were delighted to adopt a high moral stance in reporting upon parties where the participants wore items of plastic or rubber for sex.
Films, including British television were inclined to use plastic mac wearing as a means of depicting someone who was a bit feeble either mentally or physically and some comedians also used the idea for a cheap smutty laugh and of course, there were the flashers who were known as the 'dirty mac brigade'.

Referencing comments by Mr.E.J.Forbes on 30th April 2015

How can anyone think this about Pakamacs:

"I think they went out of fashion because dirty old men wore them, to carry out dirty things in public also they were thought to be part of a gay persons attire."

I am retired now and still love my plastic raincoats, and other plastic things dearly,I am ceetainly not Gay, nor are any of my friends who also like wearing plastic things, all married and all with children. The comment is abject nonsense and cannot be considered as any sort of truth.

I love my Pakamacs to this day, and I also love my wife, just as others who love plastic rainwear love their wives and girlfriends. So just ignore the original remark, it's just not worth wasting time on.
Pacamac.

Of course wearing a Pakamac is nothing to do with being gay or being a dirty old man. Yes, some men can be described as dirty old men, but the wearing of a plastic mac is just something else some of them like.

I know for a fact though that some people in the same community I am in, love to wear a plastic mac as a visual expression of being sissy.

hi men wearing pac a macs have always been seen as sicies not gay unless the mac was pink

Hello everyone , it's been interesting reading the comments about plastic macs being associated with Gay people and Dirty old men. I don't know where or how this connection came about , but I disagree with it completely. A person should no matter who they are be able to wear what they like without fear of being persecuted or ridiculed. As I wrote back in December 28th 2014 , I wear a plastic rain hood when I go out in wet weather , but that does not mean I am gay or anything else for that matter. It just means that it happens to be the most practical and effective headwear to put on when out in the rain. I firmly believe in LIVE AND LET LIVE.

Hello Susan
I wasn't quite sure what you meant in your comment, but thought it could be taken either way....So I decided you were actually being nice so I wasn't aiming what I wrote at your comment.....I think you are right about Plastic Macs ending up being ridiculed a bit by comedians and so on, but have to say I have never seen the gay tag attached to it.
I do have concerns when people try to pass off being gay as something dirty, or a lifestyle choice etc etc or equating a plastic Mac with a gay persons attire. If a person didn't want to wear one because they thought it made them look gay, then that is a bit of a worry.....These attitudes may be a thing of the past, but a piece of history that led to Bashing, teen suicide and even murder.
For me Plastic Macs and Nylon raincoats go right back in my memories to before I went to school..Having it indented in my mind like that I have always enjoyed looking at all the comments and opinions on this page....I find it really sad seeing somebody equating Pakamacs with flashers and then deciding to right off the GLBT community in the next breath.
Am I over reacting??? Could be,but I felt I had to say something.

I hope my comment was not misunderstood. I would LOVE to be identified as gay because I wear a pakamac. I took the comment by Mr Forbes as one about views held in the distant past and I think very relevant to this forum. Such views wouldn't have helped the popularity of pakamacs. That and the old men tag probably explained why my generation started to shun the lovely garment.
The wearing of a plastic mac is definitely not related to anyone like me in the LGBT community, nor does it label anyone outside that persuasion.

Really, REALLY!!
A major strike for equality here!!....What does it matter if gay people, or whoever wore them..You think wearing a mac would make a person look gay or not....Great comment, nice to see people think like this in 2015....This page m has Straight people, gay people bi and trans gender contributing...Stick to the topic and leave out the minority groups please.It just makes you look like a bigot.

Hi I never heard that they were gay men macs I have always worn one been married since my teens may be John Wayne and the like would not wear one but thousands of men just wear them to keep the rain off

Hi yes them old macs did split very easy but they were wonderfull.