Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I discovered the Tilley hat - complete with cute little brass bug screens for the grommets from L. L. Bean - before going to Somalia 16 (!) years ago and have been wearing one ever since. They are as essentially indestructible as Ms - well, more so actually, in that you can run them over, drop them from serious heights, run them through the washer, etc. etc. - repel down-pours, and do everything a utility hat needs to and more. However, no matter how I shape the damn thing, no matter how I wear it, I will have to admit I think it makes me, and anyone else who wears one, look like a total doofus. More to the point, it makes anyone who wears one, whatever their age or sex, look like a total OLD doofus with hair growing out of his ears. :-) On the other hand, when you have to protect your head from the elements, and need an indestructible hat to do it with, there's not allot of choice - especially if you're a LUGer. B. D. (photo to follow) On 3/25/06 2:10 AM, "Peter Klein" <pklein@2alpha.net> wrote: > Well, Jeffery, you're in luck. Here I am modeling my faithful Tilley under > the Arizona skies a week ago. Photo by Katya. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Arizona/az4210_04web > > I have been wearing a Tilley for some time. In fact, I wore one long > before I joined the LUG. It's a necessity in sunny weather. I am quite > fair-skinned, and even with SPF 45 sunscreen *and* the Tilley, I still get > rather red. > > --Peter > > Jeffery wrote: > >> <<Well, to be honest I've never seen a Tilley hat. Feli and I looked for >> one >> in Meyer the Hatter's store on Mardi Gras day but couldn't find one. >> Jeffery Smith>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information