RAIN LOVER

The Melbourne Cup, as the locals know races on in rain, hail or shine and punters don't seem to mind what the weather is. Wet & Wendy's favourite story of the Cup and it's past is the beautiful horse of the 1960's; Rain Lover. A horse who inspired the limited edition 'Love The Race' brellas this year which sold out here at W&W faster than you could say "and they're off...!"

Rain Lover was one of the very few horses to win the Melbourne Cup more than once winning in 1968 & 1969.
In his first Melbourne Cup triumph, under jockey Jim Johnson, Rain Lover won by a record eight-length margin and in a record time of 3:19.1. Jim was also noted for his unusual riding style of virtually standing up and was one of the few great jockeys to win the Melbourne cup three times.

Controversy surrounded his second win as the hot favourite and heavily backed Big Philou trained by Bart Cummings was the victim of a doping scandal and was withdrawn from the race 39 minutes before the start. Burdened with 9 st. 7 lbs. Rain Lover still went on the win the race from Alsop and created history as the first back-to-back winner since Archer in 1861 and 1862.
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Wet & Wendy 'Love The Race' Umbrella- now sold out but plain stripes (without horses) available from Thursday at the ONLINE STORE as well as visit our local stockists.

ENDLESS RAIN INTO A PAPER CUP

I'm not sure any band loved brellas as much as The Beatles.

My favourite Beatles lyric is from Across The Universe......
"words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup"

In the Beatles song Rain, the backwards vocal at the end fade out is actually the songs first line:
"When the rain comes they run and hide their heads".  

Rain was said to have been written by John after observing the hurried way pedestrians move out of the way of raindrops.  

SPRING RAINING CARNIVAL

This Years 2011 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival has been forecast with alot of rain. Like last year in particular, this year's carnival is set to be awash with drowning stilleto's and tipsy punters cowering from the downpour with a plastic bag over their heads, or better still a full body clear kagool. 
If you need refreshing on this...

The new Wet & Wendy collection launches next week and wouldn't the racing carnival be different if everyone was decked out in their W&W goods looking super stylish in the rain?  C'mon Melbourne!

WET & WENDY LOVES THE RACE

WATER CITY

EXPO Water city from martin de thurah on Vimeo.

The Sound of water....like nothing else....

Visit director Martin De Thurah's world here.

Director Martin de Thurah
Dop Kasper Tuxen, Martin de Thurah
Edit Adam Nielsen
Producer Malene Dyhring / Bacon
Part of the Danish pavillion
EXPO Shanghai 2010

LOUIS VUITTON- SS12

Bring on the Brella Love....and bring on the Wet & Wendy SS11/12 'Love The Sun' collection hitting stores and our webstore 1st week November

FASHIONABLE ELEMENTS

SUNSHINE

Vintage ad C/- flickr, mini clutch by Marc Jacobs

• Yuma in Arizona (USA) is the sunniest place in the world.  It experiences an average of 4,055 hours of sunshine each year (out of a possible 4,456 hours).  
• It takes eight minutes for the sun to travel to earth and so that glorious sunshine hitting your face right now left the sun eight minutes ago (you may remember this from my past post title 'eight minutes' read it here.

RAIN

pic by morethanblessed, clear shoes buy here

• The amount of water held in the atmosphere at any time is sufficient to produce about 2.5cm (1 inch) of rain over the surface of the earth. 
• The total amount of precipitation to fall to earth in one year is 5,000 million million tonnes.  
• A rainbow was visible for 6 hours (from 9am to 6pm) at Wetherby, Yorkshire (UK) on 14 March 1994.  This is rare as most rainbows last for only a few minutes.  
• The Largest Hailstone fell to earth in Bangladesh in 1986, it weighed 1kg.

WIND

Skirt by Antik Batik

• The windiest place in the world is Port Martin, Antarctica, which has an average wind speed over a year of 64 km/h (40 mph).   It experiences gale force 8 winds for over a hundred days a year
• The fastest winds on earth are inside a tornado funnel.  Winds here have been recorded at 480 km/h (300 mph). 
  

 SNOW

Snowdome bycreepy snowballs, Lace shorts by shakuhatchi

• The Most Snow Produced in a single snowstorm was 4.8 metres, in California in 1959.
• Permanent snow and ice cover about 12% (21 million square km's) of the Earth's land surface.
• The largest snowflakes in the world fell across Fort Keogh in Montana (USA) on 28 January 1887.  The flakes were measured at a massive 38cm (15 ins) across by 20cm (8 ins) thick.  

LIGHTNING

dress by Stella Mc Cartney on Net-a-Porter

• At any particular time, there are approximately 1,800 thunderstorms occurring in the Earth's atmosphere.
• A typical flash of folk lightning lasts for about 0.2 seconds and is five times hotter than the surface of the sun
  
  
  Amazing weather facts provided by www.gungahlinweather.com

  
  
  
  
  
  
  WET & WENDY LOVES THE ELEMENTS