“Sigmund Freud contends that aggressiveness is a fundamental human instinct whose inhibition is a necessary obligation of social life. These umbrellas combine a symbol of gentlemanly refinement–the full-sized, black umbrella–with an element from more manly sword-bearing times. The umbrellas offer brief psychological respite from the dictates of social amiability.”
I tuned out somewhere around ‘Freud’ and just started to really want these umbrellas in all their refined nafness. Alas they’re just art: Umbrellas for the Civil but Discontent Man is designed by Bruce and Stephanie Tharp of Materious.
If/When (better be when!) they go into production I have dibs on the broad sword and officers sword. The rest of you can fight it out over the samurai sword.
