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Many companies that produce budget umbrellas offer lifetime coverage or other attractive claims. (Though the steeper investment might motivate you to check the umbrella stand before you walk out the door of a restaurant.) However, it won’t perform much better than our budget-friendly stick pick. To be sure, a custom-carved, maple-handled Italian stick umbrella with a twill canopy, such as the Davek Savile we tested, is long on style. “The average price for a nice stick umbrella is around $80 to $120,” Levee said. But whether an umbrella is worth that investment depends more on your style proclivities or if you tend to lose umbrellas. If you want to spend much more than $30 on an umbrella, you can get something special. But how many are you buying?” With these, it’s less a matter of if than of when it will finally break (often on the same day you bought it). You can find ones for even less, but we wouldn’t recommend them, nor would Levee: “Yes, you can get a $5 umbrella in the street and a $10 umbrella at the drugstore. We discovered it’s possible to get an under-$25 model that’s solid enough to bend in the wind and reliably snap back into shape-so you won’t be heartbroken if you leave it at a restaurant. Stick umbrellas often (though not always) come with a cane handle made of wood or laminate, leather, or rubberized plastic. Although canopy and rib materials aren’t of primary importance, leather, pleather, and rubberized plastic handles offer a much better grip than hard plastic ones-especially when they’re molded into a shape that follows the hand’s natural contours.After all, if you’ve taken a commercial flight, you’ve entrusted your life to critical components made of aluminum, such as wing ribs and roots the process is not functionally different from that used to make soda cans, but it’s on an incomprehensibly larger ( and epoch-making) scale. “What’s better is steel and fiberglass.”) But this could be an unfair generalization. (“Stay away from it,” said Rain or Shine’s Peggy Levee. Aluminum construction is sometimes considered a weakness, probably because of the metal’s association with soda cans and cooking foil. The ribs and shaft are usually constructed from steel, aluminum, and fiberglass, either alone or in combination. Some boast an additional quick-dry coating of Teflon (though we’ve found this doesn’t make much difference in practice). All umbrellas use a synthetic fabric-usually polyester or nylon-for the canopy. What matters: the quality of the design and production, and the specific alloy employed. Materials don’t vary much among brands.But we allowed some wiggle room for the larger stick umbrellas, since you typically tote them more like a cane or walking stick. After all, you’ll probably be carrying it with you most of the time. We sought a main pick that weighed less than a pound, with preference given to lighter models.And on ultra-compact full-size umbrellas, the ribs have four joints rather than two, so there are more potential points of failure. But we don’t recommend ultra-compact models: Though banana-sized umbrellas do exist, their canopies are often too small to be effective. We focused on umbrellas that were shorter than 12 inches fully folded-with the exception of some stick umbrellas-since most people want something that fits into a car’s glove box or a backpack’s water-bottle pocket.By contrast, mini umbrellas are generally no better than a wide-brimmed hat, so we skipped those models. In 20, we looked into larger options, for those who may value extra coverage stretching to the abdomen.
It’s better to think of an umbrella as protection for your hairdo and upper torso as you scurry between car and office or subway and home. Blowing rain and puddles inevitably produce wet calves and pant cuffs, dampened thighs, and even soaked waists.
Regardless of an umbrella’s size, no model will keep you dry from head to toe, especially if there’s a breeze.
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That’s why this is the range for most manufacturers’ standard or “full-size” portable umbrellas. It turns out that a 37- to 39-inch-diameter canopy is just about perfect for keeping someone’s head and torso dry-without adding too much bulk to the total package.
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