Anonymous ID: 326c84 July 7, 2023, 10:48 a.m. No.19139674   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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England did not shake off its antiquated view of umbrellas only being for women until Jonas Hanway started carrying one in public around 1750. The gentleman writer would always have an umbrella on his person as he went about the streets of London, enduring ridicule from men who thought anyone with money could just take a stagecoach if it rained.

 

Hanway’s insistence on bringing an umbrella everywhere he went eventually helped make its use among Englishmen publicly accepted by the late 18th century. His reputation was such that an umbrella carried by a man was called a “Hanway”.