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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]