So for a really long time, these were used to protect people from the sun. Then some guy figures out that you can waterproof them and use them to protect you from rain, and suddenly people no longer require them when it’s sunny? I don’t get it.
“Everything is chukas akum unless proven otherwise.”
I can prove that fedora hats are NOT chukat akum. They were popularized by a Jewish woman, Sarah Bernhardt, who was an apostate notorious for her hedonistic licentious lifestyle. But she was a Jew.