There are some inventions — think umbrellas or nail clippers — that have been somewhat serviceable but hardly perfect. Why can’t we find something more effective? Did we all just give up? Athanasia Leivaditou didn’t. She wants to create a raincoat with an umbrella hoody.
The problem with umbrellas? You have to freaking hold them. That ties up a hand! Leivaditou’s umbrella coat combines the basic raincoat with waterproof pants and an umbrella. You’re 100 per cent protected from rain drops and both of your hands are free to do whatever they may please. Carry your groceries. Open your door. High five a stranger. Whatever
Sure, if the wind is blowing, your umbrella hoody might collapse like so many umbrellas do on a rainy day but that’s a risk I’m willing to take. Leivaditou’s concept looks like it’d be fairly easy to put on too (though I don’t know how easy it’d be to store) and covers every inch of your body. Plus, it’s sort of prison garb/insane cult stylish, no? [Yanko Design]
TSH
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10:21 AMDoes it cover your feet too, like some kind of outsize body stocking?
I fail to see how this is better than putting on a high-quality rain jacket over a similarly-good pair of overpants. You’ll need decent waterproof shoes as well, to complete the ensemble.
dr_nic
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10:29 AMMy god. I would point and laugh at anyone I saw wearing anything like this.
Mike
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 3:02 PMI’d join you. We could laugh in different keys and create like a duet of laugher and pointing.
Srsly, wtf was/is she thinking…
Althalus
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10:34 AMLooks like something out of Aeon Flux
monkeymind
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:05 PMI was thinking Balde Runner…
Roberto
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM“I know what you did last summer”… :-)
ben
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10:45 AMcan’t you just wear a coat with a hood?
Penmonicus
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 11:17 AMIt sure could look a lot worse. It does look kinda futuristic-y, and as long as it didn’t look like a cheap piece of crap in real life… I could see it catching on.
Ew
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:32 PMArgh… it looks like one is wearing a body bag, with a hood to keep splatter in, rather than raindrops out. Maybe if it were in a cheerful shade it’d look better? Or maybe not! :p
Pat
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:56 PMInteresting. The rain will inevitably funnel down right into your cloth bag. You’ll reach home dry but a bag full of water.
Well done.
Chris M
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 5:03 PMAll this designer needs is 1 celebrity and you will ALL be running down to k-mart for one. I think it’s interesting although a bit gimmicky, bit it looks like the designer may have created a new niche…….