The North Face Resolve Jacket

The North Face Resolve Jacket is a lightweight waterproof jacket with a shorter length cut to it, making it a real fashion item over the last couple of years. It's both waterproof and breathable, using North Face's own Hyvent fabric, which features a Durable Water Resistant treatment.

Elastic cuffs help keep the wind out and a fully adjustable hood (which stows into the collar) for bad weather are two useful features of the jacket. This makes it reasonable versatile, but I wouldn't recommend it for either heavy rain, as the DWR won't keep you dry enough, or extreme use as this will start to rub the DWR treatment off, affecting the waterproofing of the jacket.

That said, for round town or walking the dog, the Resolve is turning into a bit of a classic. Consistently The North Face's best-selling waterproof for us, every year there seem to be more colours available!