The story
Twenty-two percent of this cloth is polyurethane against seventy-eight percent polyester, and it is built to hold rain out rather than bead it away. It carries a 3000 mm water column and the seams are taped, so water cannot work its way in through the stitching, which is where it usually gets in. The cloth is windproof and breathable, and it has stretch in it, which is not a given in a shell and is the difference between a jacket you can move in and one you fight. One style is cut from it. The cloth is Italian and the jacket is made up in Macedonia. It still goes in the machine at 30°C on a gentle spin.
