You've got no zip on half the front of the smock but you still choose to put a piddly, little pocket to one side of the zip like it's a full zip. Is that because you then don't have to create a new pocket design just use the full zip jacket pocket in the half zip smock? Is it really down to lazy designers and manufacturing?
It's become a bugbear right now. Am I the only one who can see no good reason for not designing a slightly better, all day windshirt that isn't a softshell with insulation? I can wear basic pertex quantum over a t-shirt in the warmer months when the wind become stronger and it even enough in showers. I never used waterproofs ever in summer for years. Initially because I had only freebie, insulated waterproofs and later paramo which was too warm. I used a windshirt possibly over a thin, wicking, LS base layer or microfleece even in the heaviest of summer rains. Then I got a membrane shell and that's been my sweatbag ever since in summer.
Is it too much to expect payment someone to make a pertex quantum smock type windshell that's waterproof length, not so short you've got two inches gap between your belt and the bottom of the smock and a decent centre pocket that's OS map friendly????