Rain jacket revelations

I was sleeping but woke up just in time. Plus great shirts, great boots & more

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In today’s Plane we’ve got:

• A revelatory rain jacket

• Slapping workshirts designed by a swaggy theoretical physicist

• Boots I rock all the time just dropped in new versions

• More unbeatable recon!

First up —

How many life-changing truths is The Establishment hiding from us?

That’s the sort of question I (Jonah) gotta ask, 1) having just copped a very cool rain jacket, 2) from one of our favorite small labels, that 3) is somehow made entirely from cotton — no synthetics, no DWR laminates, not even a wax coating. Thanks to / despite those absences, it’s got an astonishing degree of waterproofness, it’s lightweight, it breathes easy, and dries quickly.

Everyone I tell about this jacket says things along the lines of, ‘What the f**k,’ ‘Why have I never heard of that?’ and ‘Big Fluorocarbon hates to see this man coming.’ Also, it looks sick, it’s coming in a new version….

And the miraculous fabric that makes it possible has been around since the early 20th century??