One description said it was like sitting in the driver's seat of a small car, while wearing two heavy raincoats.
VOA: special.2009.06.17
Still there was enough spirit amid the umbrellas, raincoats and bin liners here on Bloomsday - the day in 1904 in which novelist James Joyce set Ulysses - to make this a worthwhile event in a dirty old town.
Two to five local men dress as deities called Toshidon, donning straw raincoats decorated with the leaves of indigenous plants and monstrous masks with long, pointed noses, oversized fangs and demonic horns.
Burberry's finale sent its guys down the U-shaped path through the crowd in clear plastic raincoats with a surprise (to them as well, it seemed) rainstorm crashing down, engineered to such a fine tolerance that none of the front-row grandees--inches away--so much as wet a knee.