To Tilly or not to Tilly?

Whatever blows your skirt up is fine. You'll always look like a tourist.

Is it too hot for a Tilly hat in India?

Depends on which Tilley - assuming you don't mean one of their winter hats - no problems. I wear one.

I am so impressed. I didn't know what that is. Here people know.I thought it must be one of those big British official hats. Myself I prefer a Stetson. Once people start laughing they invariably help out. Breaks the ice as I am conforming to that age old stereotype of the very sophisticated foreign traveller called in Hindi, pagul videshi..

OK, that's it. it's settled. If Ed can wear a Stetson, I can wear a Tilly. Tip of the hat to you all.

Was at Tilly HQ store a month ago.The original Tilly family's adult daughter recently sold it to a Brit firm. This time, we bought shirts, not hats. Note also that their underwear is great value because it dries overnight after hand-laundering.
But the main memory of our recent visit was about one of the shop's veteran salesperson, a fellow pushing 70.

Poor chap may have onset memory issues. We chatted with him for a while soon after entering the shop, then we drifted off to peruse the merchandise. Fifteen minutes later, I re-approached him with a question. At that point he launched into a unique travel story and posed it as something that had happened to him ages ago in his late teens.Thing was, the tale was actually something that I had just shared with him during our first chat.
Spooky to experience that, with someone who clearly had no idea that they were dealing with misinformation.
I am done. The end.
PS Mrs Z and I wear our Tilly hats outside every day from late May thru October. She wears their shirts almost exclusively.

Btw, there exists a remarkable foto of me wearing my old Tilly in Jaisalmer. I had posed as though collapsed on my back, OK, stoned off my face, across the steps of that famous 'Bhang' shop'. In my hands are a few purchases of the shop's cannabis products. At the time of the shot, I had yet to sample the yield. Later...
(voice of Mr. Spock)
"I experienced a strange sensation."
I done was. End the.

Thanks, Zebec, I think. I remember you from Woodstock. Great story about the salesman. I once had a similar experience, really funny and flattering at the same time. Must have been a really good story.

He used to wear fedoras but now he sports a fez
There's cabalistic innuendo in everything he says

Not to Tilly, yet to Tilley

A revival of the great times of the Tree in the 80s when Israeli Girl posted and prompted poetry and stories Lost my heart to that. But, I was already attached:)..