Converse Finally Goes Waterproof, With Some Help From Gore-Tex

The Nike-owned shoemaker teams up with Gore to make a new line of weatherproof men’s shoes and outerwear. Converse Finally Goes Waterproof, With Some Help From Gore-Tex

THE RAIN IS drenching Darryl “Curtains” Jackson. It’s coming down in sheets from a machine overhead that’s been programmed to dump water droplets at the rate of 3.25 inches an hour. “This is a nice, steady rain,” he says, as drops fall from the ceiling and drain into the grated floor below. Read more

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