Impermeable

The impermeable is a Vêtement used to protect itself from the Pluie.

History

One carried coats to hood in the Antiquité and of the Pèlerine S to the Moyen-âge. As of the 13th century, the Indians of Amazonia waterproof their clothing with the sap of the tree with rubber.

In 1823, the British industrialist Charles Mackintosh invents first impermeable fabric made up of two coated of latex, stuck and varnished fabrics that it markets crossed like impermeable under the name Mackintosh .

The British Thomas Burberry creates the Gabardine, in 1880.

During the First World War, the British soldiers carried Trench-coat S (literally “coats of distinct”) to be protected from the cold and moisture in the trenches.

In 1960, Guy Cotten invents the waxed for marine. Leger and impermeable, it replaces the Veste S of Coton oiled, doors and uncomfortable.

In 1965, the manufacturer Leon-Claude Duhamel creates it “in the event of… (rain)”, baptized “in-K”, impermeable, in a pocket banana which goes to the size. Renamed Cagoule, it meets large a succcès.

The Parapluie is a Chinese invention dating from. It appears in France only at the 17th century.

The impermeable modern ones are treated with rubber or the Chloride polyvinyl.

Types of impermeable

  • the waxed is an impermeable clothing used by the marine S which consisted of a fabric soaked with Linseed oil that one let dry. This fabric was replaced by a new rubberized cloth in 1841 when Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber by impregnating it with sulfur.
  • the Columbo of the name of the series-TV Columbo where the héro carries an impermeable right and soiled
  • the Gabardine
  • the K-way
  • the mackintosh
  • the Trench-coat

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