Patent ID: 7111327

Claim:
A reversible raincoat providing a dress mode and a protective mode for wearer: (a) said raincoat incorporating a plurality of panels, said panels including a forward pair of the panels that span the anterior of said wearer and at least a rearward panel that spans the posterior of said wearer; (b) said panels being stitched together along seams; (c) each of said panels being fabricated from a single ply of fabric formed from a laminate of a protective facing, a dress facing, and an interstice stratum there between; (d) said interstice stratum being vapor permeable; (e) said protective facing, said dress facing and said interstice stratum being laminated together by a polymer; (f) said protective facing being a knit infused with a water repellent polymer; (g) said dress facing being a weave infused with a water repellant polymer; (h) tape extending along at least some of said seams in contact with and bonded to said protective facing across said last-mentioned seams; (i) said tape and said protective facing being fluorescent; (j) said forward panels providing flaps along the forward edges of said forward pair of said panels; (k) a column of primary snaps along one of said flaps; (l) columns of secondary snaps along flaps of another of said forward panels; (m) one of said columns of secondary snaps mating with said column of pry snaps when said raincoat is in said dress mode; (n) the other of said columns of secondary snaps mating with said column of primary snaps when said raincoat is in said protective mode.