Taking down 34% of your votes without getting turned inside out, GustBuster is your choice for best umbrella. The other four nominees, all great for their own reasons, were only separated by about 6% of the votes, so be sure to check them all out if the GustBuster isn’t right for you.

April showers bring landfills of cheap umbrellas ripped inside out by wind and wear and tear. You deserve a better rain-blocking device, so head for the comments and tell us which ‘brella is best.

British Pathé has unearthed another gem featuring fashions from1950s and this time, what they found were one thousand couture umbrellas. With so many options to be modeled, the designers of said umbrellas really had to be really inventive with their ideas in order for them to stand out. As a result, we're shown gold…

[Xichang, August 4. Chinese Yi ethnic women wearing traditional dresses hold yellow umbrellas during a parade celebrating the annual Torch Festival in Xichang, in southwest China's Sichuan province.]

• Boot porn: who knew that shoes could be this ugly and expensive? (The gems on the left cost $1,350. Yee haw!) •