WATERPROOF bum-covering COATS: I am doing the research so you don't have to...

[WilfShelf]

Can we just have one thread in anticipation of autumn/winter? No, we don't all want a Boden coat because a. they're not properly waterproof and b. EVERY other bugger in the playground has one already. So, I'm after technically sophisticated properly waterproof coats that GO IN AT THE WAIST that are somewhere in between hiker and fashion victim. Inevitably, this means EXPENSIVE usually I'm afraid. Some suggestions below. If you would like to add yours, especially cheaper ones, feel free:

Northface Stella Grace Good good good

Marmot highlander Marmot do some excellent longer waterproof jackets but unfortunately I cannot find lots of stockists in UK

Barbour are doing some nice coats these days [hit view all to see full range]

And even some of their wax jackets are wearable!

Now look here High Fash-hags Creenstone, a dutch company, do some very INTERESTING coats, apparently waterproof and technical... but difficult to find UK stockists or prices: can anyone track 'em down?

That's enough for now. will post more later. Please add suggestions but only ACTUAL waterproof coats please.

I'm still cross about it: on yer German, US and Scandi sites, they all know what we want. On yer BRitish sites this is what you get

Come on retailers, get your act together...

And no, some of us do NOT want anything with a bloody cape on the shoulder. WE don't ride horses and nor do we want to look like tossers.

this pratical hat would suit you wilf

Merrell Wakefield in brown - apologies if you have linked to this site already, but I am too excited to reread the whole thread as I have just ordered one ! For 90 quid!!

Come on, Scottish autumn/winter; schoolrun, thou holdsth no horror any longer

"Long Lady Jacket" Wilf?

Sounds like a euphemism...

PAcific there is only the XS available on that site - is that what you ordered?

MrsKarpet: Apparently the rainfrog jacket is waterproof and windproof. No fleecey or padded lining but keeps the chill out due to windproofness (is that a word?!)(and yes, already nippy up here, even in August!?). She's been out in 'chucking it down' rain and it did the job, she says. Maybe not 'deepest darkest winter' jacket? but okay for all other rainy seasons. Seemingly, she's one happy bunny...

I bought the Merrell Wakefield last January, and it made the rest of the winter so much easier. So warm, and totally waterproof. I love it.

I have it in the brown, and got called obi wan kanobi a couple of times, but can't really justify spending out again just to get a different colour!

Fabulous coat.

Oh, I am so close to getting the Merrell Ava. Hmm. Worth holding out for the North Face? But the price, the price...

Gah. I like the Wakefield more. Bird in the hand?

Well it would bem if you could actually BUY the effing Wakefield anywhere. At a loss to understand how PacificDogwood has just ordered one - I can't make that site do it.

Well, that's the thing, the Ava, being the bird in the hand, as it were. And quite a bargain. But the Merrell is nicer. If unavailable

Ah yes I get you. I have gorn mad with googling wakefields.

Me too. Where's amidaiwish and her new ebay business, eh?

This is supposedly rainproof, hooded, quite funky, suitable to wear to work and substantially reduced. Not knee length, though.

XS? I wish...

Got too carried away with excitement and needing to share here to realise it had not loaded in my basket in L

Sorry, ladies

Now I really really want, no, need one, grrrr!

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Dammit Pacific I thought you had found a clever way to hack into he site and get it to release the coats...

Ok - anyone know friends in Canada - I asked my friend to look and she says they are coming out of their ears over there (the Merrell wakefield I am talking about!) she is going to look for me at prices/colours/sizes etc and get back to me! HTH

employment - oh I want that John Lewis one. But alas they are out of my size.

Why do they also make every coat in double breasted . I have two large ones of my own. I don't need another 2. I look like a large couch wrapped in a curtain when I put one on!

marking for another day.

Oh, greedygoose, if your friends in Canada come through, purleeze let us all know.

Considering I did not even know 24 hours ago that I was in the marked for such a coat, I am getting really very worringly desperate....

And I agree wholeheartedly with Serenity, double breasted jackets/coats are on a par in the unflattering stakes with calf-length A-line skirts, bah!

I have just e-mailed Merrell UK and US begging.

Sad, moi??

Heh heh I emailed Merrell yesterday!

They will be wondering what's going on all of a sudden...

I wonder if we are just too early, and that they will roll their coats out in the Autumn or something?

Or are they from last year and discontinued? That's what I am worried about