What’s Up With Umbrellas: Staying Dry in April Showers

Last week I left my umbrella at home, but didn't realize it until it was lunch time here at New Jersey Monthly, and the heavens had already opened. Just then, a big cardboard box landed on my desk...

A few days before, a PR person representing Blunt Umbrellas asked if she could please send me one of their new samples. Sure, I said…and the timing couldn’t have been better.

So I unwrapped the box, resisted the urge to open the umbrella inside my office (bad luck, right?), and hit the windy streets of Morristown. The rep told me that the Blunt collection (named for its blunt, rounded tip), originally from New Zealand and quickly expanding in the U.S., has a special stabilizing design. In fact, the Wall Street Journal wrote that “structurally, the Blunt falls somewhere between suspension bridge and NASA probe.”

That’s pretty impressive stuff, but all that really mattered to me on that blustery day was having an umbrella that kept me dry and didn’t turn itself inside out in the wind. Happily, my black Blunt Classic did the job. (I understand that the Blunt Classic also happened to be Tom Cruise’s umbrella of choice while shooting in London last summer. That’s probably the only thing I will ever have in common with Tom Cruise.)

All five new Blunt designs, in a choice of colors, are available at New Jersey retailers including the Princeton Art Museum, Fete Furnishings in Voorhees, LuggagePoint in Somerset, and on bluntusa.com.

April showers bring May flowers, and it’s already looking pretty colorful out there. I have a feeling that my trusty umbrella won’t be needed much longer, but it’s good to know that it will be living under my desk, just in case.

 

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