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You Should Already Own This: A Thoughtful Umbrella
In California, you don’t see many rainy days. So few in fact, that you might store your umbrella in early spring and completely forget you own one. Until one morning, you wake up in October to a downpour, look in your entryway closet, and take comfort in the fact that at some point you got smart and bought yourself a good umbrella that will serve you for years.
I know it may seem mundane, but I feel like the commuter’s umbrella shouldn’t be just functional, it should be a statement, the same way your choice in a bag is a statement, or your choice in eyeglass frames is a statement. The umbrella should convey the same message that an overcoat or a scarf might. Fall accessories are half the fun of fall fashion, and an umbrella, an accessory so large that it can at times obstruct your entire look, should require far more thought than most give it.
Having owned it for two rainy seasons now, I completely and totally endorse the Burberry Giant Check Umbrella, $275.
I personally don’t appreciate compact umbrellas, nor do I enjoy the golf-style “stick” umbrella. I also happen to be a sucker for appointments like leather-wrap, and of course the Burberry tartan, regardless of it’s recent fall out of favor with some due to it’s increased accessibility in the last few years.
The full-sized, cane umbrella: They don’t stow away neatly, because they aren’t meant to stow away neatly.
