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Every pair of decent quality rain pants I have owned have had a tightenable adjustment at the end of the cuff, usually Velcro, sometimes snaps. I too am short-legged and while those blossomed pant legs looks like pantaloons I am not treading on them as I walk.
Not I, nor other folks. This is a 5 foot nothing woman wearing my raingear. It looks like a clown suit, but she’s not stepping on the cuffs.
One rain pant feature I would look for, if you are willing to drop the coin, is reinforced knees. I do a lot of kneeling in camp, around the fire, setting up tent, pounding tarp stakes, praying for the rain to stop (and, OK, I tend to break small wood across my knee. Bad Mike) and the first thing that wear out, gets punctured or sliced, is the knees.
Best rainpants I ever owned were (mid-90’s ?) Marmots with double reinforced knees.
To that reinforced design feature, the area that wears out first on rain jackets is the shoulder, especially where pack straps rub. Even with minimal pack toting (me) the shoulder area is constantly rubbing against my shirt or jacket and too soon wearing thin. The higher end stuff of good design is also double-fabric in that area.
One superfluous rain pant feature for me is zippers on the legs, to allow donning the rain pants while still wearing shoes. That may work if you have size 8 feet and wear ballerina slippers, but there is no way in heck my size 12 boots are going down that pant leg even with the ends fully unzipped. It is comical to try, but it ain’t happening.
Without a side zipper I rather just have an elastic cuff.
Not I, nor other folks. This is a 5 foot nothing woman wearing my raingear. It looks like a clown suit, but she’s not stepping on the cuffs.
One rain pant feature I would look for, if you are willing to drop the coin, is reinforced knees. I do a lot of kneeling in camp, around the fire, setting up tent, pounding tarp stakes, praying for the rain to stop (and, OK, I tend to break small wood across my knee. Bad Mike) and the first thing that wear out, gets punctured or sliced, is the knees.
Best rainpants I ever owned were (mid-90’s ?) Marmots with double reinforced knees.
To that reinforced design feature, the area that wears out first on rain jackets is the shoulder, especially where pack straps rub. Even with minimal pack toting (me) the shoulder area is constantly rubbing against my shirt or jacket and too soon wearing thin. The higher end stuff of good design is also double-fabric in that area.
One superfluous rain pant feature for me is zippers on the legs, to allow donning the rain pants while still wearing shoes. That may work if you have size 8 feet and wear ballerina slippers, but there is no way in heck my size 12 boots are going down that pant leg even with the ends fully unzipped. It is comical to try, but it ain’t happening.
Without a side zipper I rather just have an elastic cuff.
