pioggia.

raincoats; a word that rarely enters my head for the reason that it conjures up unwanted images of yellow plastic rain ponchos and khaki green pac-a-macs. distinctly for hillwalkers and all those other people that take copious amounts of pleasure walking in the pissing rain for no purpose, the raincoat is not and has never been your must have piece du jour. to great lengths i would go to never, ever have a reason buy one in the past, but it's becoming ever more palpable that at T in the Park, there's no other alternative but to don one of these inelegant things. i have been scouring the internet for something that won't make me look like one of these bedraggled hillwalkers, and this is what i've found thus far:

Vero Moda Zip Back Hooded Jacket @ ASOS

Animal Pac-A-Parka @ Topshop

yuck and yuck. the ASOS is wearable, but the Topshop one is a mere waste of fabric. they are also both £28, for a plastic sheath i'll wear for three days before it ends up in Save the Children. maybe, just maybe, by next week they'll have invented something that you can actually hold over your head while it rains to stop you getting wet, so i won't have to look like a soggy sack of potatoes. oh, wait...