I'm not sure if thet are the same thing but we used to wear something similar on the flight deck of the carrier. The rubber made a lot of people break out like crazy.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.