Darny wrote:wet weather jacket with a decent adjustable hood
what kind of adjustable?
I'm keen on sorting a good raincoat for my kids so that will hopefully be a sooner rather than later project.
My thoughts on the hood thing...
Most of the children's raincoat patterns (and bought coats for that matter) don't have hoods that sit on the head well when children are moving around.
You can get some that have a drawstring around the opening but they never sit correctly. Once they are tight enough not to move too much they are too constricting and if they aren't tight enough when the child looks left or right they end up looking at the hood because it doesn't move with them.
Ones that have no drawstring at all don't stay up well and also have the same issue when the child turns their head.
I was looking at the hoods on a couple of different jackets and want to try putting a slight peak on the front of the hood (this seems quite common in adult garments) as well as an adjustment in the CB to shorten/lengthen the hood size - ie it means you can get the top edge of the hood adjusted for the right place on the child's head.