About
An Independent Reference for Waterproof Jackets
Waterproof clothing is one of the most heavily marketed categories in outdoor equipment and one of the least clearly explained. This site exists to document it accurately rather than to sell it.
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Membrane platforms documented
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Brand profiles
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Published jacket records
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Published guides
Why this exists
A shopper comparing two shells is usually comparing two marketing pages. One quotes a hydrostatic head figure, the other quotes none; one names a proprietary laminate, the other names a proprietary coating; neither explains what the numbers were measured under or what they predict in real rain. We build the reference layer that is missing: structured records of membranes, brands and jackets, with sources, dates, and a firm line between what a manufacturer says and what we think.
What is in the database
Technologies, brands, jackets, activity requirements, comparisons and reference articles are all stored as structured records rather than as prose pages. That means a specification is written once and shown consistently everywhere it appears, comparisons are generated from the same figures as the jacket pages, and a correction propagates across the site instead of surviving in three places.
How we work today
At present this platform is built on research, not on physical testing. We read manufacturer product pages and technical documentation, the published test standards behind the figures, and fabric makers' own material. We have not handled, worn or lab-tested the jackets in the database, and no page says otherwise. Where a manufacturer does not publish a detail, the page says so; where we have not yet checked a detail, the page says that instead. Each jacket record carries the date its sources were last checked.
How the site is funded
The site is currently unmonetised. If retailer links are added in future they will be disclosed on the pages that carry them, they will not affect the order or selection of jackets, and no brand will be able to buy placement, coverage, or a category win. We will not add sponsored articles.
The standards we hold ourselves to
- No invented figures, ever.
- No claimed testing that did not happen — physical testing is labelled and dated.
- No thin pages published to occupy a search term; unwritten topics stay unindexed.
- Every specification traceable to a source, with a verification date on the page.