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've got a small box filled with pocket watches that my father left me. I ought to go to a "collectibles" store and see about trading it for something more useful. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Richard S. Taylor Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:47 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Tilly hats Ah yes. Have had one myself for over ten years. Bought it as a sailing hat since the straps can go under your chin and tie the thing to your head. With one side of the brim clipped up and the other left down you can look positively rakish, in an Australian, I'm-just-in-from-the-Outback sort of way. The LUG has a curious demographic with specific common tastes in cameras, scotch, hats, and pens (though I've never indulged myself), to say nothing of above average age. Makes me wonder if there aren't any closet horologists here. Dick >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information