Ahh, Melbourne: Australia‘s throbbing cultural heart, art and fashion capital of the Southern Hemisphere, and home of the worst fucken weather in greater Oceania.
Honestly! Why do people live there! It’s clearly not meant for human habitation!
look at what it does to people. LOOK
Regardless of this indisputable fact, humans continue to inhabit the place, and the weather continues to be absolutely mental.
But a bloke called Aaron Tyler may have come up with the solution: an ingenious garment he calls The Melbourne Jacket. This thing is supposed to deal with every kind of weather, including “bloody raining, bloody boiling, bloody windy, bloody storming, bloody freezing, bloody asthma storms, bloody hailing [and] bloody sun-rain“.
The story goes that Tyler was inspired to create the Jacket when he got on a tram in balmy sunshine and stepped off into a pounding thunderstorm (sounds pretty standard).
Now he’s using Kickstarter to fund the research and development of what he’s dubbed The Most Melbourne Thing Ever, i.e. basically an entire wardrobe in one slightly ridiculous package.
I mean… an entire wardrobe.
Complete with legionnaire’s hat…
Rain chaps…
Asthma storm ventilator…
Thongs (attached)…
And a dog raincoat. Obviously.
Backers of the Kickstarter don’t actually get a jacket once the whole thing has been transformed from GIF to reality, but they do get input into the design and regular updates on the process.
Probably worth it if only to suss out once and for all if this is the piss-take to end all piss-takes, or actually a pretty good idea.
Source & image: Kickstarter / The Melbourne Jacket.
