Fashion Umbrella Retailers
Retailers and boutiques selling fashion umbrellas
A fashion umbrella is rain protection designed as an accessory, chosen for its canopy print, handle and silhouette as much as its shelter, and fashion umbrella retailers stock accordingly, from cheerful everyday brollies to handmade luxury pieces. Jollybrolly runs an online UK umbrella store with a wide range from cheap and budget options through to luxury brollies, from Bournemouth. Lippincott represents the couture end of the trade: its founder, Miss Lippincott, cast her eyes on a tattered vintage umbrella that embodied as much attitude as age and resolved to design umbrellas, finding her manufacturer in Italy, in a generations-old factory where twelve people make an umbrella or parasol by hand, assembling frames and handles, cutting and sewing fabric and adding old-world finishing touches. She then searched Europe and the mountains of New England for factories and craftspeople who could meet the same standards for the collections that followed. Between a budget brolly and a twelve-person handmade umbrella lies the whole fashion umbrella market, and this page's retailers mark its two ends.
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Jollybrolly: Jolly Brolly has a wide range of the best umbrellas for
sale in our online UK umbrella store, from cheap and budget umbrella
options right through to luxury brollies.
Address: First Floor 8-10 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 3NA 01202
237187
Lippincott: Once upon a time a certain Miss Lippincott cast her eyes upon a
tattered vintage umbrella that embodied as much attitude as age. This
harbinger cast her under a spell, and she exclaimed to herself, " I must
design umbrellas." So she searched and found the best umbrella
manufacturer in the world, in Italy. In this generations-old factory, it
takes twelve people to make an umbrella or parasol by hand - from
assembling the frames and handles, to cutting and sewing the fabric, to
adding old-world finishing touches. Inspired with the results of her
first collection, and overcome with endless new product ideas, she
zoomed around Europe and the mountains of New England in search of
factories and craftspeople who could meet her exacting standards.
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- Fashionable Umbrellas
Umbrella Shapes and Handles
The classic stick umbrella with a curved handle remains the fashion standard because it carries like a walking accessory and covers generously; folding umbrellas trade that presence for bag-sized convenience. Canopy size, measured in ribs and arc, decides real coverage, and clear dome umbrellas, a fashion staple, sacrifice shoulder coverage for visibility and a distinctive silhouette.
Handles are the signature: bamboo, leather-wrapped, sculpted resin and classic wood each change the object's character more than any canopy print. That is why handmade makers lavish attention there, and why a fashion umbrella collection, like a shoe collection, tends to grow by handle and mood rather than by need.
Common Questions
What makes an umbrella a fashion umbrella?
Design intent. A fashion umbrella's canopy pattern, color, handle shape and trim are chosen to coordinate with clothing and occasions, weddings, race days, city dressing, rather than merely to shed rain. The category runs from printed budget models at Jollybrolly to Lippincott's handmade Italian umbrellas and parasols, where the making itself, twelve pairs of hands per piece, is part of the fashion statement.
How is a handmade umbrella different from a standard one?
In process and finish. In the Italian factory Lippincott uses, frames and handles are assembled, fabric is cut and sewn, and finishing touches are added by hand across twelve workers, the way umbrellas were made before mass production. The results show in handle materials, canopy tension, stitching and the small details, finials, wrist loops and trims, that machine lines simplify away. Standard umbrellas win on price and weight; handmade ones win on character and longevity.
Should a fashion umbrella also be a serious rain umbrella?
It should at least be an honest one: a canopy that covers, ribs that flex rather than snap in wind, and a handle that stays grippable when wet. Fashion-first umbrellas for weddings and photographs may fairly trade storm strength for looks, but a city fashion umbrella, the kind sold as an everyday accessory, has to survive a wet commute. Retailers who range from budget to luxury, as Jollybrolly does, let a buyer choose that balance deliberately.