What would you pay? Filson’s Umbrella

Filson Cover Cloth Umbrella – $95.00 – $98.00

Available direct through Filson, Park&Bond if you have some GILT credits, or Brooks Brothers.

Two things:

1. That is one undeniably cool looking umbrella
2. Almost one hundred dollars for an umbrella?  This thing know any tricks?

Instead of nylon for the canopy, Filson uses their oil finished cotton in “otter green” to keep the rain off your head.  The light wooden handle with the embossed Filson logo is just friggin’ fantastic.

But ninety five bucks?  The Totes “gentleman’s” umbrella goes for $20ish online, and if you can find one in-store at Macy’s they’ll sometimes go for much less.  That one has yet to let a humble dappered.com editor down over four years of use.  But back to the Filson model…