Vintage Advert - Western Mail 1946

The Liverpool Echo - Friday 18th June 1958

Irish Independent - Monday 8th May 1950

The Scotsman - Wednesday 20 May 1947

The Herald - Friday 15th July 1955

Eastbourne Gazette - Wednesday 11th August 1954

The Yorkshire Evening Post - Tuesday April 21st 1953

Liverpool Echo - Monday 21st August 1969

The Liverpool Echo - Friday 18th June 1958

The Daily Mirror Friday January 8th 1954

Vintage Advert- 1954

The Berwick Advertiser - Thursday July 15 1948

The Yorkshire Post - February 9th 1953

Daily Mirror - Saturday May 25 1957

Wishaw Press and Advertiser - Friday 7th July 1972

The Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday July 18 1947

The Liverpool Echo - 15/05/1958

The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - 10/02/1961

Evening Express - 22/06/1959

Lewis’s Advert - The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express 10/08/1960

Vintage Pakamac Advert - The Liverpool Echo 21/06/1957

Vintage Pakamac Advert - Belfast Telegraph 25/06/1953

Vintage Advert - Dannimac

Magazine recreation including a photo of the model in a real Dannimac raincoat.

Vintage Advert - The Spot Rubber Company

A recreation from scratch.

Vintage Advert - Thorntons

From an original 1930s advert for Thorntons of Edinburgh 

Vintage Advert - Thorntons

From an original 1930s advert for Thornton’s in Edinburgh 

Vintage Men’s Genuine Pakamac Plastic Raincoat Advert (2020 reconstruction)

Vintage Pakamac Advert (December 2019 Version)

Vintage Pakamac Advert (September 2018 Version)

Vintage Pakamac 

Vintage Pakamac Advert (May 2017 version)

Vintage Adverts - Pakamac

My version of a Pakamac advert

Vintage Adverts - L&C Rubber Company

Another shop I remember

Vintage Adverts - Brindleys

Brindleys

A version of their 1950s advert.

 

 

Vintage Adverts - Wilsons of Dundee

Wilsons of Dundee

Alternative version of their 1950s advert

Vintage Adverts - Direct Raincoat Company

Direct Raincoat Company

A version of the 1950s advert. I remember this shop.

 

 

Vintage Adverts - Another Pakamac Version

Pakamac

Could this have been a 1950s version?

Vintage Pakamac Adverts - A new slant on them

Pakamac

"She's spreading the word .... and spreading it fast. The word? Pakamac, of course, which means, genuine, all-welded Pakamac plastic raincoats."

These are the words from an old 50s advertisement for the Pakamac plastic raincoat. How times have changed.



 

 

 



My love of Plastic Macs

I still can't quite fathom why I love plastic macs so much, but I just do. It has been a love that has spanned decades from my earliest memories, when they were quite prevalent as a high street item and a popular fashion item as well.

Most of the images displayed in this blog, are reconstructions of advertisements from the 20th century, demonstrating just how popular these raincoats are. A lot of them are reconstructions from newspaper adverts from the UK and the Republic of Ireland, archived by The British Newspaper Archive. My reconstructions acknowledge the archive as the source of my information.

The photograph below is myself.