Isn’t it raining a lot these days?
It is the long awaited spring but it is getting cold…
and also you have to overcome the rainy season that is coming up.
Basically I don’t like getting wet in the rain, but aren’t there times
that you want to get wet?
You know, that feeling you had as a kid when you put on that rain coat and boots.
I still have that.
That feeling.
This time I have gathered stuff that will let you enjoy that rain.

Starting off is an item that is regularly released called the “A-Frame”.
It is that shape that anyone knows called a square; and when you see someone wearing it you can’t help but smile because it seems that the person wearing it is enjoying the falling rain. It is a poncho that you can slip on and off when you need it.
I have it tossed in my car and it has come in handy many times.
The reason for the square shape is so that it can be used as a piece to sit on at a picnic, or as a tarp by making four holes in the corners anchoring it down with rope under it, and also it can become a tent.
The name comes from the “A” shape it makes when you make a tent, so the name became “A-Frame”.
This is kind of off subject, but a Jeep I used to ride was stripped down with no roof and I used to use the “A-Frame” as a soft bikini top.

“Vallet” is also a long length jacket that comes down to the knees and has a hood with a visor giving you no need for an umbrella.
The meaning of “Vallet” comes from the parking attendants. When I used to go to New York a lot, at the hotel I stayed at, I noticed the doorman and valet people who worked near the entrance of the hotel wearing a long nylon hooded trench coat over there proper suits. That is what inspired the making of this.
I like how it is easy going because of the long length covering the whole body so you don’t really have to worry much about what kind of bottom you are wearing.

“Sherpa” “Para Smock” etc. are a breed of milspec items that have a true WTAPS feeling.
This season is also a 3 layer build using GORE-TEX®, and laid out on the inside seam tape is the brand philosophy.

FYI, GORE-TEX® is not about the nylon material, but it is a material in a film form that is highly breathable but yet water repellent allowing sweat to get out, but not letting rain get in.
When it is made into a product, it is laminated into one piece by sandwiching the water repellent properties between the front fabric and inside fabric; it is something that you cannot see.
The black “Sherpa” from this season, has GORE-TEX® laminated into a cotton outer fabric.
The silhouette is also slim.

Many more variations of nylon items still exist.
This time I covered representative examples.
Even if it is raining
hoping
that you enjoy
that it is raining.