We use Muck Boots or Nora Max or Bekina Agrilite - no need for socks. Trapper hats, like a baseball cap with low back and ear flaps are brilliant - warm and secure and stop the rain lashing into your eyes. I wear thinsulate gloves under heavy duty black rubber gloves for most tasks - keep your hands dry and warm unless the temperature really plummets. Always seems to be the right hand glove that gets a hole in it first, though, so I have any extensive collection of left rubber gloves.