The trend in fashion where style-obsessed men & women take great pleasure in wearing rain boots, rain coats, etc. Especially popular in Southern California, where the rarity of rain meets the vanity of superficial people, rain couture is best embodied in the excitement people display before rain because they get to wear their overly-expensive coat for once.
(Can also be spelled "rain coature")

(noun) A successful type of theft which results in an acceptable, impressive and rewarding payday for the protagonist.