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2025 Rainwear calendar by Keith Barker: (water)proof if you want it!
2025 RAINWEAR (CALENDAR)
Photography by Keith Barker
(Keital/Photobox, £38 incl UK p&p)
Review by Tony Mitchell
One of the interesting aspects of mainstream fashion’s current embrace of latex and other waterproof fabrics is that the raincoat has made something of a comeback in the hands of high fashion brands.
Which makes the 2025 Rainwear calendar from photographer Keith Barker (cover image below) a particularly timely piece of publishing.
Keith has been photographing rainwear and fetishwear both traditional and modern for a very long time now. During his career as an airline pilot, this interest was pursued as a side-hustle under the name Keital.
But, post-retirement, his shinier work has been executed under his own name, and demonstrates an impressive mastery of the modern digital environment’s creative potential when applied to fetish photography.
Rainwear has not previously been a focus of much interest at The Fetishistas. But given its renewed fashionability, the subject matter and image quality in this 2025 calendar surely make it a product worthy of our attention.
Many of the current high fashion versions of raincoats are trench coats, the quasi-military detailing of which provide designers with plenty to get their teeth into.
Dolce&Gabana and Chloe are among the luxury brands that have very recently put shiny trenchcoats onto the Paris catwalks.
But while some of these coats may have looked like but not actually been latex, newer high fashion brands such as Avellano in Paris and Harri in London offer genuine latex coats in their current collections.
As you might guess, with designers like these, satisfying a rubber rainwear fetish doesn’t come cheap. Almost all Avellano’s latex coats are priced at more than €3,000 a pop, while Harri’s long latex coats start at £1,695.
Thankfully (you might think), Weathervain — one of the UK’s longest established rainwear and ‘traditional rubberwear’ brands — is still going strong as an online retailer.
Weathervain’s classic military-style double-breasted trench coat in heavyweight latex costs a more affordable £525, with an SBR version (here meaning “shiny black rubber”, not industrial styrene-butadiene-rubber) at £795, single texture rubberised cotton or satin versions at £695, and last but not least, a
version in heavyweight shiny PU (a fabric frequently misdescribed as ‘PVC’) at £395.
If you want a latex raincoat from a latex fashion brand you may be more familiar with, then Libidex, for example, has a variety of women’s and men’s styles priced between £319 and £505 approximately.
If your budget doesn’t run to latex, then there are myriad raincoats and trench coats in cheaper shiny fabrics from a plethora of brands that can easily be discovered via Google, Etsy etc.
The 13 garments depicted in Keith Barker’s 2025 Rainwear calendar cover a variety of styles and fabrics, and the images, for the most part, while likely to appeal to the cognoscenti, are innocuous enough not to raise any eyebrows at a vicarage tea party.
Exceptions that might warrant an ‘NSFW’ tag are October’s red coat and black gasmask combo (shown above this article’s headline), and April’s stern-looking, ponytailed, crop-wielding blonde. But in today’s climate, even those images, so stylishly rendered, would be unlikely to give anyone apoplexy.
So in a way, this puts this calendar in much the same category as all the rainwear that, especially in earlier, more prudish times, was worn in public as a way of enjoying one’s secret fetish in plain sight.
Keith originally created 2025 Rainwear as a very limited-edition, self-published calendar, purely for private circulation to a few fans and friends. However, he currently has a small stock remaining, and is prepared to get more printed if the demand is there.
The wall calendar, with a page per month plus covers, is beautifully printed on heavy stock (more like card than paper); the pages are spiral-bound A3 size. Single landscape-format images or portrait-format pairs occupy the top half of each page, with the lower half laid out in a grid with the days of each month.
Price incl UK p&p is £38, payable via PayPal. Email orders to keital@virginmedia.com, which is also both the linked account for PayPal and the address to email if you want to enquire about purchasing this calendar from outside the UK.
Orders received after the first week of January will be promptly acknowledged but may be subject to a delay in fulfilment.
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