Totes' line of Rihanna-branded umbrellas were so successful, they've branched out into a second line of the portable shelters. The one pictured at left, which I suppose was designed to emulate the umbrella that Rihanna's
phantom legs dance around in the song's video, will set you back fifty bucks. Fifty! I feel bad spending more than
seven dollars on an umbrella because I've left about 12 of them on the subway during the six years that I've lived in New York, but maybe people who own their own cars and don't have to worry about such commuting-related losses will be less wary of dropping the cash. [
totes-isotoner.com, via
Songs For Soap]
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How to make your day at a music festival even more cumbersome: Tote around The Shit Box, a portable toilet that you carry around in the form of a 14-inch flat pack. Honestly, the only "advantage" to this box that I can see is the ability to stick all those free flyers and pieces of swag that are forced upon me during the course of the day inside, but perhaps you can come up with an alternate use for the thing. [The Brown Corporation (oh, come on now) via Can't Stop The Bleeding]
