I wonder if anyone was a member of The Mackintosh Society in the mid nineteen seventies. Jan and I were, and we can both remember going on a trip on The Severn Valley Railway one July Saturday afternoon in 1975 or it might have been 1976. I was very proud Jan my wife of a few weeks [it must have been 1975] who looked stunning dressed in a new black rubberised satin raincoat from Weather Vain fastened to the neck and very tightly belted over her black leather micro mini skirt and thin black polo neck sweater. Her shoulder length golden tresses tumbled over the shiny material and her leg hugging knee length Cuban heeled black leather boots clicked against the cobbles as we walked up the car park to the car with the caped figure on its roof where we where we were greeted by a large pipe smoking man wearing an SBR raincoat.
Several rainwear and rubber enthusiasts boarded and the British reserve was evident, a few nods and brief chit chat between enthusiasts mostly about the trains. On the return journey things were different, we were joined in the compartment by a couple from London, he worked in a West End theatre I believe and was wearing a black rubber shirt and black rubber trousers. His wife, a very pretty slim lady in her early thirties was wearing a tight black rubber mini skirt, white rubber blouse, black rubber jacket and high heeled black knee length boots.
An American chap joined us who was using his vacation, as he put it, to visit rainwear shops and manufacturers. Mac Mac, South Bucks and Weather Vain plus someone in Dorset or Devon. I wonder how many 'bucks' he spent?
It was an enjoyable day and I took several photographs of my young wife. Unfortunately we had a bad house fire in the mid-eighties and lost all our photographs and Jan's collection of rainwear, 7 raincoats, 4 capes and 3 dresses all in rubberised satin. I wonder if anyone else was on that trip and if by a million to one chance took some photographs, including a photograph of Jan ... ?
Archie
