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Dear Lorraine,
One of your contributors recently asked if anyone wears a waterproof raincoat under their ordinary coat.
When my sister and I were growing up, we were usually sent out to play in the garden dressed in a rubber mac over our ordinary clothes, to keep them clean. My sister is two years older than me, and I had to wear her outgrown macs. They were made of cotton coated with rubber on the inside, and had a hood and belt.
Sometimes we had to wear the hood up, other times we wore it down. If we were to go out to the shops or to see family, we would put on our gaberdine coats over the top, buttoned up to the top, so no one saw our rubber macs. If the weather was wet and we were going out, we had hooded plastic macs to wear over our gaberdines.
When my sister went to the high school she was not allowed to wear any outer coat except the brown uniform, so when it rained she had to wear her plastic mac with the hood up inside her school coat.
I went to a different school and could wear mine outside.
Sometimes after leaving school I continued to wear a plastic mac over my ordinary coat, but I found I quite enjoyed wearing one underneath sometimes. Over the last few years, I have been in the habit of wearing a nylon waterproof jacket under my ordinary work coat, and when I walk my dogs I always wear a long nylon mac under an old gaberdine coat in the autumn and winter months. It is not at all uncomfortable, and can be very warm on a windy day, especially by the sea. My sister is unfortunately no longer with us, but she would sometimes walk with me when she came to visit, and often wore a cagoule under her parka type coat, with both the hoods up.
If you fancy wearing it, go for it.
Thank you for your site.
Best wishes,
Charlie
Dear Charlie
Well, thank you for your very interesting letter.
I'm specially interested that you find wearing an undercoat really comfortable. Some people wear one as a kind of discipline, they explain, and I suppose I have always assumed this is because their experience is the very opposite! It sounds as though you just do it because it feels nice.
A very good reason for anything!
Best wishes
Lorraine
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