You folks all have it wrong. They’re not for rain. They are sun protection.
My spouse is highly pigment-challenged. His skin actually looks blue a lot, and he can get a sunburn in 5 minutes. (And, to match a stereotype, he’s of 100% Scots descent and has gorgeous blue eyes and strawberry-blond ringlets.)
He has many different pieces of headgear that protect the neck as well as the face. Some make him look like he joined the French foreign legion. The umbrella hat doesn’t really block the rays enough.
Despite his caution, he’s about to have surgery for a melanoma (skin cancer) on his lower eyelid. Fortunately, it was caught at 0.3 mm. Skin cancer kills! Get checked.
