Packable Rain Jackets

Somewhere between the fourth “is it going to rain?” glance at the sky and the moment your bus is fifteen minutes late, you’ll wish you owned a proper womens packable rain jacket. Not a bulky parka that eats half your wardrobe. Something that folds into a bag pocket, weighs about as much as a paperback, … Read more

A mens packable rain jacket is, in theory, a simple thing: a waterproof shell that scrunches down small enough to live in a rucksack pocket without you ever noticing it’s there. In practice, walk into any outdoor shop and you’ll find forty variations on that theme, each one promising to be the lightest, the most … Read more

There’s a very specific kind of despair that hits somewhere around minute four of an unexpected downpour, standing at a bus stop in a t-shirt, watching your phone screen fog up while you mentally replay the moment you checked the forecast and thought “nah, it’ll hold off.” A packable rain jacket is a compact, ultra-lightweight … Read more