(Updated) Like everyone else who's bought this, I was drawn by the handle design. It's the only thing about it that has kept me from throwing it away. Let's talk about how this thing was constructed though. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to make all the links so damn thin. Some of the attachments are literally paper clips; I kid you not. They are lodged inside the pathetically thin aluminum joints to keep you from noticing...not that it'll matter, because this thing is bound to fall apart and expose this atrocious design flaw even in mild wind. This is a downright defective umbrella. The handle is very loose and shaky and the entire umbrella is extremely difficult to control in the wind, it even spins along the axis of the handle form how loose it is. I got the small version because I heard that quite a few people have been receiving negative attention from the police (including arrest) for having it strapped on their back, so I wanted to be able to tuck this in a bag and conceal it. It does that job well, but as for working as an actual umbrella should, it completely fails in that department. I was worried this would happen, as many people are reporting that the bigger one is constructed in a more sturdy fashion...I certainly feel like I made a terrible mistake buying this one. At first when I reviewed this, I thought it was better than those 4 dollar pieces of junk you find in Wall Mart that get destroyed after one gust of wind..but that's only because it wasn't terribly windy the first day I used it. The very next day when it got more windy than normal, it completely uprooted, and snapped several of the plastic and ridiculous paper-clip links that keep the umbrella together...now it is next to useless. I'll at least give it this: it is a great piece for novelty's sake, it's classy and unique in the aesthetic sense, but if you are foolish enough to buy this...never...I repeat never take this out on a windy day. I'm very disappointed by how quickly this got destroyed, I shouldn't have let myself get mislead by some of the customer reviews that said this would hold up against this wind. Do NOT listen to them, this is a flimsy piece of junk meant only for display purposes. I don't even know if you should get the bigger version if it's smaller counter part was this terrible.