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  • ronin
    Banned
    • Dec 2009
    • 200

    #16
    I've been really attracted to the Umbuster since I saw it on the Sruli Recht shop, and the backstory is both smart (in terms of innovation) and funny. I'm really thinking about ordering one.
    My last umbrella purchase was totally just for fun - the amazing(ly tacky)(yet sturdy) samurai umbrella. I love it. I don't carry it on my back though.

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    • Sombre
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2009
      • 1291

      #17
      Originally posted by theetruscan View Post
      SAB occasionally has umbrellas with surface flaws (often quite minor) at staggering discounts. Be prepared to pay $70 for shipping to the US, but it's still an amazing deal.</P>


      My little brother saw some video about the umbrella the Phillipine presidential guard or something use, will track it down.</P>


      EDIT: Found the video, it's an absurdist masterpiece. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO8G5zsQohg</P>
      That scene with the guy slicing through the watermelon is epic.
      An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler

      Originally posted by BBSCCP
      I order 1 in every size, please, for every occasion

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      • Swiskit
        Junior Member
        • Jan 2011
        • 18

        #18
        Umbuster is incredible!

        Samurai sword umbrella (without sword... probably a little safer/more likely to be legal):
        <a href="http://s1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc471/SWISKIT/?action=view&amp;current=sword-umbrella.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc471/SWISKIT/sword-umbrella.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

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        • surver
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2007
          • 638

          #19
          kasana

          these are the real deal - called the kasana, a play on 'katana'. comes in different lengths & colors. hand-made in gifu. handle and sword guard all match those of a real katana. quite expensive though...

          much sturdier and much much more beautiful then the samurai umbrella, which is very plastic and not very sturdy (mine has fallen apart already)...

          especially like the small version...

















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          • Swiskit
            Junior Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 18

            #20
            Those smaller ones are fantastic!
            Appreciation for the cute:deadly ratio they seem to bring...(IWANTONE)

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            • croatoan
              Senior Member
              • Jul 2007
              • 915

              #21
              Originally posted by surver View Post
              these are the real deal - called the kasana, a play on 'katana'.
              (in case people don't catch it -- "kasa" means umbrella)


              The trusty..

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              • MJRH
                Senior Member
                • Nov 2006
                • 418

                #22
                totally badass




                There is also another matter to be mentioned for which both present and future ages have good reason to bless the name of Jonas Hanway. He was the first person who had the courage to hold an umbrella over his head in walking along the streets of London. ‘The eighteenth century,’ writes Chambers, ‘was half elapsed before the umbrella had even begun to be used in England. General Wolfe, writing from Paris in 1752, remarks: “The people here use umbrellas in hot weather to defend them from the sun, and something of the same kind to save them from the snow and the rain. I wonder that a practice so useful is not introduced in England.” Just about that time, however, a gentleman did exercise the moral courage to use an umbrella in the streets of London. He was the noted Jonas Hanway, then newly returned form Persia, and in delicate health, by which, of course, his using such a convenience was justified both to himself and to the public. “A parapluie,” we are told, defended Mr. Hanway’s face and wig. For a time no other than dainty beings, then called “Macaronies,” ventured to carry an umbrella; and any one doing so was sure to be hailed by the mob as a “mincing Frenchman.” One John Macdonald, a footman, who has favored the public with his memoirs, found as late as 1770 that, on appearing with a fine silk umbrella which he had brought from Spain, he was saluted with the cry of “Frenchman, why don’t you get a coach?”

                – “Jonas Hanway, the Philanthropist,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, April 1884

                ^ via the ever-entertaining Futility Closet

                more on Hanway: Hanway was the first Londoner, it is said, to carry an umbrella, and he lived to triumph over all the hackney coachmen who tried to hoot and hustle him down. He attacked vail-giving, or tipping, with some temporary success; by his onslaught upon tea-drinking he became involved in controversy with Johnson and Goldsmith. His last efforts were on behalf of little chimney-sweeps. His advocacy of solitary confinement for prisoners and opposition to Jewish naturalization were more questionable instances of his activity in social matters.



                for all those who had also never heard of a macaroni, a sort of dandy-precursor:

                There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up among us. It is called a macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion.
                ain't no beauty queens in this locality

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                • KUROKO
                  Junior Member
                  • Feb 2021
                  • 26

                  #23
                  Originally posted by TypicalFashion View Post
                  i rock the five dollar with the hook and silver button... and pretend i'm the penguin with it.</p>


                  </p>
                  L’OFFICIEL / PLAZA: What makes you mad?
                  Rick Owens: Umbrellas.

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                  • wendysl
                    Junior Member
                    • Aug 2022
                    • 12

                    #24
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