However, the ministry spokesman said a fake fur version would have to satisfy “safety and durability considerations” and that “no alternative has met all those criteria to date”.
Why do they need to be durable if they keep buying new ones? Don’t they have enough existing durable hats to reuse at this point? And I’m having a hard time imaging what is unsafe about faux fur hats.
That’s a reason I can support. Maybe they could just wear nice wool caps.