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The cocktail umbrella: Does it really do anything? It definitely opens and closes like a real umbrella, so it seems the dead-end functional charm of the miniature rain shield has single-handedly managed to keep it alive over the years. In celebration of this long summer weekend, we leave you with a tribute to the cocktail umbrella.
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And don't forget the hidden, exotic bonus that many cocktail umbrella's provide: when the sliding mechanism gets disassembled, one is treated to small pieces of Chinese newspapers.