5 Reasons This Is the First Umbrella I Have Not Lost, Broken, or Thrown Away

Every umbrella I owned opened at the push of a button and then made me wrestle it closed with both hands, usually in a shop doorway with people waiting behind me.

This one closes the same way it opens. One press of the button and the canopy pulls itself back down. I can do it with one hand while the other is holding a bag of groceries.

The handle is a proper carabiner loop, not the flimsy little wrist strap that never stays on your arm.

I clip it to my handbag on the way out the door and then I stop thinking about it. It hooks onto a shopping cart, the back of a chair, the hook in the hallway. That one detail is the whole reason I still own this one.

Most folding umbrellas keep your head dry and let your shoulders and your bag get soaked.

This one opens to 41.7 inches across. There is room for me, my handbag and the paper sack from the store, with enough left over that my daughter walks under it with me. Nobody comes out with a wet arm.

The underside is coated black and rated UPF50+. I did not buy it for that, and it turned out to be the part I use most.

At the farmers market in August it throws real shade, the kind you can feel on your shoulders. I have been told to stay out of the sun for 40 years. Turns out I just needed something I would actually carry.

I paid full price for mine in the spring and I would do it again. But the Labor Day sale is running right now at 50% off, so if you have been meaning to replace the one in the car that already flipped inside out, this is the week.

Every order comes with easy returns, no questions asked. The colors do not all last, beige and navy went first last time.