I vote no on Umbrellas

I have never been a fan of the umbrella and since moving to the city I have come to hate them. Knowing Chicago is "the windy city," why on earth would people use an umbrella in a windy rain storm? You know it is just going to flip inside out and then you have nothing. Not to mention you push your way into the wind just to get down the street. 

I am more a fan of the hat and raincoat. Both keep you equally as dry-although my purse is soaked, but I feel if it is a raining sideways that will happen anyway. All that is wet are my knees because that is the only part not covered by either my rain coat or rain boots. And I have never been one to do my hair so putting a hat on really makes no difference whats so ever. And for those ladies who would never put on a hat because it would mess up their hair? I am quite positive that the woman I saw pushing herself down the street with her umbrella looks much worse than I do right now, in fact I would put $5 down that her hair looks like a rats nest right now-a wet one.