Keeping Cool: Fans and Parasols

[KittyT]

Well summer is in full swing, ladies! Do any of you use fans or parasols to keep cool in the summer heat? Let's see photos! Where did you get your item?

I'm still looking for a parasol to carry this summer - I've been searching ebay and know that http://www.pearlriver.com and http://www.mybabyjo.com have nice ones, better than I've found in Boston's Chinatown. I'm also still looking for a nice light-colored fan to carry, maybe a vintage 50s celluloid one. In any case, here's a non-vintage one I got recently:

[Polka Dot]

That's a beautiful fan, Kitty.

I'm entirely non-vintage when it comes to keeping cool. I like central air.

[Rosie]

I use a parasol though, I only have two. I got one from ebay, I'll have to take a pic of it the other I got from pearl river, a store down in Chinatown: http://www.pearlriver.com

[Fleur De Guerre]

While I have several parasols I do feel a bit silly carrying them over here Perhaps I'll get over that ssoon...we have no summer anyway so I don't need one!

However, I would die without my fan on the tube and train. I have a chinese paper and bamboo one and a sandalwood one. I love the sandalwood one, it smells divine!

[timorous me]

I ADORE my parasols. I have several. I bought most of them in Chinatown.

[Brooksie]

I have some fans that were my grandma's. I bought a parasol from Goodwill last month (it is a pretty aqua blue rice) it was $2.99 and I bought another one from goodwill a couple weeks ago and it was $3.99, it is a cool looking two toned one cloth not paper and looks to be from the 50's and I have another one that I inherited from my ex-husbands great aunt, i was told it was from the victorian era - it is a small black cloth parasol with a jeweled handle (it looks like it would go with one of those all black victorian mourning dresses) and it is water proof also. I really would like another asian one - a silk one with the blossoms painted on it, I saw a few durring my last visit to Portland at a store for only $6.99 and I passed it up and I should not have done that! I know - you wanted pics but sorry I have been working 10 and 11 hour days!

LB

[Paisley]

All my fans are electric.

[Babydoll]

I'm very pale skinned, and burn easily. (Only took an hour last time to burn my *scalp*!!) So, I took my parasol to my cousin's outdoor Fourth of July celebration on Wednesday. The Mister teased me about it, my cousin took photos of me with it, but the most important was I didn't get burned!

(I bought it from a friend that used to sell them as part of her online store.)

[imoldfashioned]

I have a carved sandalwood fan that I got at Pier One about a million years ago (okay, I guess it only seems that long ago!). It still has a faint scent after all this time, which is lovely.

I'd love to get a parasol--I may have to make a lunch sojourn to Chinatown next week!

[goldwyn girl]

All my fans are electric.

HEHE.......... all my fans want my autograph

I have a pink silk parasol which I use and in the Vegas heat thats frequently.