Under the weather

Umbrellas are easily one of the world's most overlooked fashion accessories. It's a rainy-day essential - and though they have been around for hundreds of years, not much tweaking has come the way of man's preferred mode of rain cover. Deciding to shake things up a bit, the women at umbrellastand.com have created a wide assortment of umbrellas - some with minor aesthetic changes and some with outstanding new additions.