When the weather turns it’s great to have a little extra storage space for hats, gloves and the Cargo Long Jacket from RAINS lives up to its name by giving you a few more storage options. As well as the two zip up hip pockets, they’ve added some welded chest pockets with zip closures, so everything is kept nice and secure. The two way zip means you can unzip the jacket from the bottom if you need a little extra movement (or to reach anything in your trouser pockets) and the elasticated cuffs and drawcord at the hood will keep you sealed up. Made with RAINS classic PU coated fabric it will shed water and keep the wind off you whilst still having a soft and smooth finish.
| Composition: | 100% PES (Polyester) |
| Coating: | 100% PU (Polyurethane) |
| Waterproof rating: | W3 – Waterproof protection from light rain |
| Water column pressure: | 5000 mm |
| Windproof: | Protection against windchill |
| XS | S | M | L | XL | |
| Chest | 104 | 110 | 116 | 122 | 128 |
| Bottom | 104 | 110 | 116 | 122 | 128 |
| Sleeve length | 86 | 88.5 | 91 | 93.5 | 96 |
| Shoulder to shoulder | 45 | 46.5 | 48 | 49.5 | 51 |
| Length | 71 | 73 | 75 | 77.5 | 80 |
There can’t be many outdoor brands gracing the runways at Paris Fashion Week, but RAINS is one of them. Fear not though – stylish as they are, the unisex jackets and bags from this up-and-coming Danish company are firmly rooted in heavy weather and Scandi heritage.
The Danes know a thing or two about rainwear, after all. Copenhagen gets an average of 170 rainy days a year, and since time immemorial, the classic rubberised cotton slicker has been the nation’s wet-weather armour of choice. When RAINS co-founders Philip Lotko and Daniel Brix Hesselager met at one of Denmark's largest textile and design schools, they wanted to take this Viking icon and turn it into something more contemporary. They started out in 2012 with a rain poncho, and quickly expanded into a range of raincoats and water-resistant bags – all in their signature ‘neo-Scandinavian’ style.
They’re textile designers at heart, and that’s where RAINS really shows its class. The specially developed matte-finish PU fabrics are lightweight and waterproof, with ultrasonically welded seams and ventilation carefully designed in.
Fashionable this stuff might be, but fast fashion it certainly isn’t. RAINS’s commitment to ethical and sustainable working stretches from the conditions in their partner factories to their transport logistics and even the lighting in their offices and shops. And at the heart of that, of course, are products that are built to last. If you do eventually manage to wear them out, RAINS will even trade you store credit when you return them for recycling.
-Ceinwen, Verified Buyer
