For men the only umbrella color is black.
The best umbrellas are supposed to come from James Smith & Sons LTD in London, although I wouldn't throw a Swaine Adenay & Briggs out of a leaky cab.
Something I find fasinating is that when your buying a custom umbrella, you have to tell them the length. It makes sense that a basketball player would want a longer umbrella then a jockey, but before doing some superficial research on this, I'd never considered that umbrellas come in more than one size.
When asked about the John Steed sword umbrella (The Avengers) Smith's manager said
"We don't place a great deal of emphasis on sword umbrellas, We don't want to attract the wrong sort of people"
A great umbrella is a truely tempting toy.