Make an Umbrella clothes line

Rainy Day Ideas

What can you do with your old umbrella (once you've bought a deliciously cool one from Hello Brolly).

Make a Clothes Line!

An old umbrella makes a handy clothes airer. Just strip off the fabric and hang the frame upside down from your shower curtain rail (make sure your old umbrella has a hook style handle), and then attach your wet clothes with clothes pegs.


When your clothes are dry the best thing about your new clothes line is that it folds up for storage.

The world's most expensive umbrella!

The world’s most expensive umbrella was created in 2009 when Italian Formula One mogul Flavio Briatore and designer Angelo Galasso partnered up to create Billionaire Italian Couture, the “first international couture line exclusively for men”.

Made of high quality crocodile skin, this umbrella will certainly help you stand out in a crowd. Just to make the umbrella more exclusive, Briatore and Galasso have made sure that each one is full of individual details. Best of all, the crocodile skin most likely guarantees that the umbrella won’t turn inside out on a windy day.

At a price of 'only' $50,000 it ought to come with a tracking device in case you leave it in your billionaire friend's luxury yacht.

Marilyn Monroe's umbrella sells for $19,200!

At Julien's Auctions in Las Vegas on June 27, 2009, this Evans Swenson white umbrella, used by Marilyn Monroe in a 1949 photoshoot on her first visit to New York, was sold for an amazing sum of $19,200. 

The photo shoot was with Andre De Dienes on Tobey/Jones Beach.

1 school = 2,400 Brollies & 1 World record attempt

Students want to help build a school in rural Kenya, and they just might break a world record while they're at it. To build the school, the Schools for Kenya club at Shorewood High School in Seattle has been raising money for Free the Children, an organization that let's children help children.


They've raised $6,000 so far, but need $8,500 total to finish the project. But, they're tackling this fundraiser by trying to set a new world record for the largest umbrella mosaic. On the field at Shoreline Stadium on June 1, at 4:30 p.m. approximately 2,400 umbrellas will be raised to form the shape of an elephant holding an umbrella, or, an "umbrellaphant."

"Everyone really embraced [the idea,]" said Bethany Smith, President of the Schools for Kenya club. "From there, it just kind of snowballed and turned into this big "umbrellaphant" event."

Smith said that the students at Shorewood High School won't be able to break the record and create the "umbrellaphant" on their own. They're asking anyone with $5 and an umbrella to join them on June 1, get in the "umbrellaphant" formation for just 10 minutes, and help them break the world record for the largest living mosaic.

The record is currently held by 2,115 participants at Bradman Oval Bowral, in New South Wales, Australia who created an umbrella mosaic depicting Mary Poppins and her umbrella.

Skin Cancer Foundation advocates umbrella use.

With the arrival of warmer weather, experts are cautioning people not to expose themselves to the sun's harmful rays..... and skin cancer. 

SkinCancer.org's advise that if you're outside when the sun's rays are usually strongest (between 10am-4pm), head under a pavilion roof, leafy tree or carry a UV Protection sun umbrella. 

Here at Hello Brolly we have some great umbrellas with UV Protection. Check out the Black Witch Umbrella and the Heart Umbrellas. All the Heart umbrellas have UV Protection, but the Silver has the highest UV rating of the range due to it's reflective outer surface, and black inner surface (which absorbs rays reflected from pavements).

To all you umbrella fans out there this is the 1st post on Hello Brolly's new blog about all things Umbrella!