In Mesopotamia more than 3000 years ago, the umbrella was a motto of rank and distinction, and at that time it was just a tool to protect from wind and rain, and the first umbrellas did not protect users from rain but rather were protection against the harsh sun rays in the desert of Mesopotamia, and this was Its primary use for centuries.

The word umbrella actually originates from the Latin word (umbra) meaning (shadow). Today in many African societies there is still an umbrella bearer walking behind the chief of the tribe, a tradition for ancient Mesopotamia, and the Egyptian umbrella appeared in 1200 BC, and it gained a strong religious significance, The Egyptians believed that the sky was formed from the body of the goddess Nut and that her body extended over the earth.

The man-made umbrellas became a symbol of the incarnations of the Goddess Nut, and anyone who had an invitation to stand under a royal canopy was a great honor for him, and the umbrellas at this time were made of palm fronds, papyrus stretched out with feathers, and the Romans and Greeks borrowed many ideas from the Egyptians but they They felt the umbrella was too feminine for men, and the women were only seen parachuting.

Greek women loved umbrellas and were carried by women of high ranks, and every year there was a feast of umbrellas, and it was the umbrella celebration held by Roman women that led to the change of umbrellas color, and Roman historians record that the events took place in the open air, and in the first century AD, Emperor Domitian enacted a decree stating that women could protect themselves with umbrellas.

In the eighteenth century sun umbrellas were still considered female accessories, and men wore hats. Henri Estien (1528 AD-1598 AD), a French author of the sixteenth century, summed it up in writing: (If French women see men carrying umbrellas, they consider them effeminate), He was a British man named Jonas Hanway, who created an umbrella suitable for men. Hanoi was a millionaire who did trade with the Far East, retired at thirty, and volunteered in hospitals and orphanages.

It was during this time that he began to invent the umbrella that men carried in the year 1750 AD, when umbrellas were still considered to be women only. Hanoi would rarely go out without his umbrella he was carrying in the rain, and it was the path of everyone's mockery, the mockery of stopping Hanoi failed to carry the umbrella in The thirty years of his life, he rarely left the house without his umbrella, and with the passage of time men realized that carrying an umbrella was appropriate in times of rain, and it was not a female thing only to become part of everyday culture and when Jonas Hanoi died in 1786 AD, every single male and female carried umbrellas in Britain.