Starting out?

Red or Dead wrote (see)

But did you have those completely unbreathable, orange cags, the virtually flouro ones?? You could get as a jacket or smock and you got as wet wearing them as not. Also had those really long and thick hood cords that would smack you in the face every time the wind blew!!

Aye - the Berghaus Thor neoprene cag (& trews)!  With a fibreple underneath to try & stop too much condensation getting to your skin,  Happy days!

I did upgrade from my Dads Belstaf biker jacket that didn't even have a hood to a cheapy PU one from the local petrol station before spending hard earned cash from my first job on 'serious gear'

Red or Dead wrote (see)

Cammo is not the only colourway to enable you to pass through the countryside les intrusively. It is as much going in sober colours as trying to actually match the terrain you are passing through. Have you tried to see a simple green tarp from a bit of a distance away? I am not talking a green that matches the vegetation neither but a totally different colour that is obvious when up close but get a few hundred metres away it then is hard to spot. Same thing with people too, can be hard to spot from a distance in the hills. Even with blue clothing or some other colour that is not the same as the vegetation although I do think some of these near flouro colours are different.