They wear well with age, I still have my first one made back in the early 70s, wearing better than me to where having one also helps take a load off in daily getting around (which it also does for younger folk), not to mention during assorted injuries over the years. I first studied far eastern styles, then old Euro and Irish, and have had one around so much I feel half-dressed without one. They are suprising handy things to have for a lot of daily uses, and the more one is carried, the more it is used for a suprising number of things just out of reach or thankfully out of reach. Automatically used it to hold a door for a lady at an appt this morning where grabbing for door would have been a lunge.
I have actually been thinking of doing that for a little security.
