Kweku Larbi dreamed up Baxter Wood. He didn’t know who or what Baxter Wood was, but when the phrase came to him in a dream, he knew it was the perfect name for the eco-conscious rainwear brand he was ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan’s biggest charity, famous for its emergency services for the poor, is kitting staff out in rain coats and rubber boots in the battle against the coronavirus as it can't ...

As scrap rubber piled up in reclamation heaps last week, many a citizen wondered how—and even whether—you could separate the rubber from a raincoat. It is possible and simple, explained rubber ...

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. So it should come as no surprise that the inventor of the modern raincoat, chemist Charles Macintosh, was a native of rainy Scotland. Although ...

With heavy rain expected to blight parts of the UK over the New Year weekend, now seems like an ideal time celebrate the man who invented the mackintosh raincoat. Charles Macintosh, born in Glasgow on ...