Wet weather fashion
June 19th 2009 07:43
I find, and many agree with me, that it is often easier to be stylish in winter, for men in particular. But even we ladies should struggle to look bad when we have such an amazing array of coats, great boots, the joy of layering up, being able to wear winter hats and accessorise with scarves. It’s all good news. Except when it starts raining. Lumping an umbrella about, or at least one adequate enough to protect your fabulous attire, is problem number one, but the whole trying to remain fashionable in the wet thing is an incredibly big ask.
Most of our first memories of dressing for the wet are not great ones. In fact, I remember as children the majority of us being herded to school in shiny rain gear, jackets too big for us, or having a dreaded plastic poncho pulled over our heads and tiny bodies. I remember one poor guy who was sent to school wearing head to toe iridescent yellow rain gear – I’m talking the whole shebang - hat, the shiny mac and the matching pants. And even in year two of primary school, I knew that wasn’t cool. Now its kind of fun to be hidden beneath a plastic poncho when the summer rain hits at the Bondi outdoor cinema, but it’s not the kind of preventative clothing you’d be prepared to don day to day.
The best example I’ve seen of fashionable wet weather gear is definitely the trendy wellies, which I believe Burberry can take the credit for spawning. Sporting their signature plaid design on gumboots suddenly made it okay to care about keeping your feet dry in winter – the sensible way, whilst still managing to show the world we are fashion conscious, and designer savvy. All I can do is applaud whoever at Burberry pushed this idea over the line, because no doubt it wouldn’t have been an all round winner to begin with. Can you imagine the presentation of the newest trenches and then in stomps the brainchild of the trendy gumboot in their great big galoshes? But it works, and we are thankful.
Now all we need is someone to master the raincoat and we’ll be set.
Most of our first memories of dressing for the wet are not great ones. In fact, I remember as children the majority of us being herded to school in shiny rain gear, jackets too big for us, or having a dreaded plastic poncho pulled over our heads and tiny bodies. I remember one poor guy who was sent to school wearing head to toe iridescent yellow rain gear – I’m talking the whole shebang - hat, the shiny mac and the matching pants. And even in year two of primary school, I knew that wasn’t cool. Now its kind of fun to be hidden beneath a plastic poncho when the summer rain hits at the Bondi outdoor cinema, but it’s not the kind of preventative clothing you’d be prepared to don day to day.
The best example I’ve seen of fashionable wet weather gear is definitely the trendy wellies, which I believe Burberry can take the credit for spawning. Sporting their signature plaid design on gumboots suddenly made it okay to care about keeping your feet dry in winter – the sensible way, whilst still managing to show the world we are fashion conscious, and designer savvy. All I can do is applaud whoever at Burberry pushed this idea over the line, because no doubt it wouldn’t have been an all round winner to begin with. Can you imagine the presentation of the newest trenches and then in stomps the brainchild of the trendy gumboot in their great big galoshes? But it works, and we are thankful.
Now all we need is someone to master the raincoat and we’ll be set.
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