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"  The March issue of Good Housekeeping hit newsstands recently with our evaluation of raingear in The Goods section of the magazine. You might think - why did they do this for March when &amp;quot;April Showers bring May Flowers?&amp;quot; Well, the product is in the stores now and we want you to have the information when you see the merchandise on the selling floor. Here in the Institute, we did various tests to see how the products would perform for our readers. For example, with rainboots we placed each one in the Raintester, a machine that simulates a rainy day.  We also soaked the interior of the boots to see how long it would take them to dry once wet. One of the worst feelings is putting your foot into a damp boot! We also had consumers try on the boots, judging how easy they were to get on and off and which ones they liked from a visual perspective. One thing we did notice with these boots is that the majority were water resistant as claimed, unlike when we performed this test on Hiking Boots  last year. While many claimed water resistance in that category, there were quite a few boots that did not pass the test. We just didn&amp;#039;t concentrate on rainboots! Check out the rest of the story covering umbrellas and raincoats  plus don&amp;#039;t forget to review our findings on for the best rainboots for your kids too! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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