Dear Lorraine
Thanks again for your wonderful site. It's a great pity that the days of the
rubber-lined macs appears to have gone but fortunately I can still find the
odd one in some of the stores such as Value Village here in Toronto, Canada
where I don't have to incur the national debt to buy one.
Reading through some of the letters from your admirers I noticed several mentioning
being locked in. One really turned me on where her Mother sewed up the button
holes too. I once sewed myself into one for a whole two weeks sewing it shut
from neck to hem and the wrist cuffs too.
Pauline in "Locked in" mentions being locked in, and Judith in "We love our
raincoats" wants to know how.
I am a man who loves to wear rubber-lined macs and found a simple way
to lock myself in. I take a small padlock pass it round under the button and
through the buttonhole, thus the only way to remove other than unlock it it
is to cut off the button or cut the button hole, perish the thought. Also on
all the belts I have put small eyelets on the tip of the belt and where needed
to attach it to the main belt when tightly done up. Some macs I have also put
small eyelets on the top of the collar so I can lock the collar on with small
padlocks. Simple and effective and impossible to remove without destroying
the mac.
Usually I wear my macs with nothing on underneath and have the
lovely feeling of the rubber on my skin all over. When I go out I leave the
keys at home.
Others in the letters have asked about people noticing them wearing their macs
in public.
Several years ago now I took the bull by the horns finally after years and
broke father's brainwashing that wearing a mac, especially a woman's mac, was
naughty, dirty, etc etc.
Now my normal attire when I go out is wearing a mac in a range of colours
and locked in with the padlocks visible. My macs are all rubberized, mostly
nylon or polyester from China or the Philippines and all come below my knees.
I wear them tightly belted and buttoned up fully, and on many have added an
additional button hole and button on the tips of the collar to raise and tighten
it more, padlocked of course. My macs are red, rose, several shades of green,
blue, purple/violet, beige, yellow, grey and black. Mostly are hooded and I
put small eyelets in them so they can be locked on my head. Depends on my mood
which colour I go out in.
In the last 4-5 years that I have been going out shopping etc in them only
twice have any ladies asked about it and I just reply that I like it that way
or my lady friend has locked me it for punishment. She got quite a gleam
in her eye but I couldn't continue the conversation unfortunately. No more
problems.
I am unaware of my attire causing any comment or attracting attention but anyway
the population's mental facilities have been dumbed down severely over recent
years so that curiosity is remarkably lacking these days.
If you feel good wearing your rubber then do it and enjoy it wherever you wish.
The first time I did it I went out and bought two almost brand new rubber macs
in a local Value Village store. I came home on such a high that it lasted almost
three days.
Please note that Toronto, Canada, where I live is a virtual rubber desert.
They daringly wear maybe latex underwear but that's about the limit. No imagination
poor things - while I have found a way to enjoy my macs.
Finally think about this. It's no one else's business as long as you remain "decent" in
the eyes of the law so go ahead and feel
good about yourself and have fun.
Rubberjohn
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