A telescopic umbrella includes a longitudinally extending crown on one end of the main shaft and both main and auxiliary sliders on the shaft. A rib assembly is pivotally secured to the flanks of the crown, main struts extend between the main slider and the rib assemblies and auxiliary struts extend between the main struts and the auxiliary slider. The plane formed by the rib assembly, main strut and auxiliary strut of at least one frame support unit is twistedly inclined with respect to a plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the shaft so that when the frame is folded these frame elements are not maintained in radial alignment so that the umbrella can be folded more compactly.