Aquasprite	Chillout Room>History of the Raincoat>Rainwear Firms in the Past

The pics are from the early sixties and the company was called Aqua Sprite and the shop was in Cale Street, London. Their standard hooded cape in rubberised satin was £3, and it had the internal cross shoulder straps to hold it on if you didn't want to do up the front. They had a splendid catalogue for mail order, which I had, but have lost somewhere along the line. I read somewhere that the proprietor, whose name escapes me, had died in the sixties. Certainly the shop had disappeared by 1966. (Jon)

'AquaSprite' was SUPERB. And such lovely models. I know that what matters really is the woman inside the mac plus the mac itself, but some, in a subjective way, seem to really fit and appear to love wearing their mackintoshes. (Bryan)

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