Where can I get an Ankle length coat...

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that does make me look like a goth or a Matrix fan?

I'm absolutely soaked.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I suggest a regular coat and some strategic limb sawing

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to wear an ankle length (West?) German policeman's jacket that I got from an army surplus store. It didn't make me look like a goth or a Matrix fan, thank God, but it probably made me look like a mook. I loved that jacket. The I went to visit my parents and they washed it and it shrank. Oh, it was green, which took away from the goth think, and I sewed some of my Dad's RAF buttons on it - they were shiny, which isn't very goth.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

that does make me look like a goth or a Matrix fan?

Err, Camden? If not, one of them long waxed dustcoats might do the job, but you'll look like a rich Australian station-owner.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I thought he said 'doesn't'. I think that is what he meant, because it is kind of awkward otherwise.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, exactly, hance the Camden non-suggestion. Duster still stands though. A proper long wool coat would be a nightmare in rain like today - soggy and heavy.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's kind of funny to imagine someone saying they want clothes that make them look like a goth or a Matrix fan, though. I don't really know why.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that's the thing; the alternatives are Goth or Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin'. I don't mind the latter though. I could get waxed chaps to go under the coat as well.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant doesn't

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant doesn't, I must be getting a fever from wet legs.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.drizaboneclothing.co.uk/Images/tancoat.jpg

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't do this, Ed, you'll look like the fishing Scot off Too Posh To Wash last week!

(I got my long black raincoat at Liberty during the 80s so it's OK that it looks really goth because it's authentic 80s goth, not that modern Manson rubbitch. However, like an idiot, I didn't wear it today. Sigh.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I am soaked up to the knees and wearing slow-drying jeans. An ankle-length coat has never seemed quite so appealing.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

what about some gaiters, Matt?
http://www.trailwise.co.uk/gaiters.jpg

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

no coat will really save you if you continue to neglect the umbrella. however a distinguished coat will make carrying one, that is to say proper one, less awkward-looking.

― candour floss (mwah), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, the umbrella is of course urgent and key. Although I'm starting to regret turning down the gigantic one offered to me by the nice lost property lady at the Social last week.

Every pub and bar in London has about 25 homeless umbrellas at any given time. I'm never paying for one ever again.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that's true! cos if u lose one you must accept its the law of the jungle and teef another yourself. they are like giant pens in that respect.

― candour floss (mwah), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

*eyes glaze over*

― candour floss (mwah), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

*makes note for future patent: combined umbrella/biro/digital clock - the ultimate losable item*

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

*oh, and add an odd sock to that as well*

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yes i'm always losing my digital clock. put a lighter at the top too, tho

― candour floss (mwah), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I've missed Zemko. No one else would use the word 'teef' in an ILE post.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you lose a clock?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

REMORID PROPINQUITY

― candour floss (mwah), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, all combination useful appliances have a digital clock incorporated.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what that means. Swiss Army Knives? Surely something is losable if you take it places with you and put them down or take them off?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I understand. Forgive my stupidity.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have gaiters, but they won't overlap ith my current rain coat, which isn't waterproof anyway.

this is currently favourite

http://www.barbour.co.uk/data/imagery_productmen/FZAM265.gif

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Combined with these

http://www.barbour.co.uk/data/imagery_productmen/A837.gif

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

nice velvet lining. despite looking like a short sleeve coat in that picture, i like it

― candour floss (mwah), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't really mean velvet.

― candour floss (mwah), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a Crombie. Problem solved.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A Crombie?

Coat aboe has a game pocket so I have somehwere to keep a whole bottle instead of a hip flask.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed are you going undercover with the Countryside Alliance?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Is a game pocket where you put your dead pheasant?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Crombies are great. The ultimate smart, wool ankle length jacket to be worn with a suit. I really need one.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Are they waterproof?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

They might as well be!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But for £525 a Crombie has to come with its own individual valeting service and arsewiping facility; sadly it does not.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Barbour one is a mere £206

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Savoy Tailors Guild and all that do discount Crombie copies - still talking the best part of £200 though. That said, they look bloody great.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

they were shiny, which isn't very goth.

I dispute that - what about well-polished black PVC?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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