Talk:Rain pants

USPS example

Seem to be part of the official USPS uniform option. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 09:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Sweat

You asked me for a contribution, but I am rather busy with other stuff at the moment, and I can't think of anything to add off-hand, except that with rain gear there is always the problem that most waterproof material makes you sweat, so you still get wet when hiking, except that it is more smelly. :) Gore-tex is designed to solve this. Another solution could be (active) ventilation, but I haven't really encountered that, except with rain jackets, which often have a slot in the back, with overlapping sections (in the shape one sees in cowboy shirts), but that is rather useless when you wear a backpack. It would be nice if someone thought of a way to use one's movements to pump air in and out, for active ventilation. Or haven't I seen that once? Can't really remember. DirkvdM (talk) 12:08, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Rain trousers

A few of the more amusing results for "rain trousers" in Google Books:

• Popular Mechanics Jan 1912 "Rain-trousers go with raincoat"
• Type and motif-index of the folktales of England and North America, Indiana University Folklore Institute Volume 20, 1940 Folktale involving rain trousers
• Congressional report 1944 "The Navy-developed rainparka jackets and rain trousers were so effective in the landings on Attu that now the Navy buys them for all services,..."
• Men's wear, Volume 156, Fairchild Publications, 1967, p30 "now add the rain trousers in one of those suiting-type rainwear fabrics"
• Official gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2008, p 1267

Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 10:49, 8 September 2011 (UTC)