As I noticed. the new torto and the celestial sheild have handles... but my aegis, plate, BTS seem to float on my wrist by 'magic' or supercoductive magnets implanted into my arm.
So, either put handles or magnet floating things (like on the swift strike) on older sheild.
It probably wouldn't take too much work to do it kinda like the promo's it would mostly involve the games artists while the coders work on the actual update.
Well, they found the time to make the leather strap and monocle on the cyclops cap into its own model..
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/98454
This seems like a good idea until you realize that this will make OOO edit every shield model, pushing back the Arcade Redux and Gunner Update we all yearn for...
So +1 if this idea takes last priority compared to other updates.