A different take today--back to "real" umbrellas, but focusing on the umbrella holder, not the umbrella image. While Rhianna may have become the "Umbrella" girl because of her singing a song with that name, Dave Watson, duck decoy carver, is the first person I have come across with the nickname "Umbrella".
According to The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys
by Bill Buckner, Dave "Umbrella" Watson (1851-1938) got his nickname because he always carried an umbrella, rain or shine. Even better, Shorebirds: The Birds, the Hunters, the Decoys
by John M. Levinson and Somers G. Headley reports that he said:"Any fool could carry an umbrella when it was raining, but it took a smart man to carry one when the sun was shining."
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