totes InBrella Reverse Closing Folding Umbrella – Inverted Closure Compact Umbrella – Portable, Windproof Rain-resistant Travel Umbrella with Recycled Canopy, Automatic Open and Close

Great umbrella

The Totes InBrella is a reverse-folding umbrella. When you close it, the outer edge folds upward, trapping the water in the umbrella, instead of dumping it on you. This is great for keeping you drier, but it means youll need to invert the umbrella to dump the water out before storage. The umbrella has both auto-open, and pushbutton close, and the pushbutton close is great, as you can close it with just one had. That was a pleasant surprise to me. This umbrella seems to hold up to the quality previously experienced and expected from Totes products. At $24, I consider this a solid value. Love it! Highly recommended!

Unlike the other brand of inverted umbrella, this one has only one layer of fabric, it is not as dry as the other brand when you fold it, even though only the underside of the fabric is exposed, it is an underside of the wet fabric. But this umbrella is more robust and it feels like it will last longer. It opens up and closes with a touch of a button, but you need to press in to fold the main shaft yourself when closing it for the mechanism to open the umbrella next time - but I think it is standard design for it as you prime the opening spring when you do it. I love the flowery print.

This umbrella is well made, and a good size for most rain showers. I love the beautiful fabric as well.

I like this tow away umbrella which easily tucks inside my larger purse/bag or backpack. I like the Velcro closure and the auto folding mechanism which keeps the inside dry and minimizes spillage as I walk inside a building. I appreciate having a nice sky pattern on a dreary day. Enough black. Give me something to cheer about. Overall this is a nice umbrella and it cheers my mood when I need it. Knock on wood, it hasnt broken in the wind so far.

Broke after a few uses.Button to close got loose and didn’t work, steel rod stem where it slides in got stuck.

So pretty design. Functional and works well opening and closing. Really like it. Made in China.

Beautiful functionality. Well made sturdy umbrella. Would make a wonderful gift.

This totes InBrella Reverse Folding umbrella feels well made and sturdy, but it isnt too heavy. It creates a medium to medium-large sized dome When its folded up its compact and can fit into most bags. The innovative part is that it closes inside out, thus the InBrella name. I like the concept but I found that this didnt make that much of a difference to me, personally. A wet umbrella is a wet umbrella. This design does make the exposed surface less wet after closure. But if an umbrella is wet, Im still not going to put it anywhere near electronics or papers in my bag. The auto-open/close button works well. I also like the grippy surface of the handle. Only thing I dont love is the velcro closure since the velcro strip gets gummed up with lint over time, but I understand why its necessary when you have layers of folds.

I bought this umbrella to see how practical it would be for me and use it, while raining, while getting into my vehicle. For this purpose alone, it does work and is neat I suppose. The main dislike I have is that this umbrella is too small (in diameter) for me. I’m not a large person and this barely covers me. Light rain is fine, but anything more, and if there’s wind, you’ll want the 55” Totes. This umbrella is a good in-between. It closes and opens snappy and fairly small and compact. It’s just okay to me.