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Saturday, May 10, 2003
 
Tilley Hats

I'm pretty excited to be getting my first Tilley Hat on Monday. I stumbled across these in the mall back around Christmas time and made a note to myself to go back and buy one next time I was in the market for a hat. Well, with my big sailing adventure just around the corner, I decided that I could use a good hat. I returned to the Colorado Hat Company where I had initially seen the hat. Perhaps not surprisingly, they did not have a hat big enough for my big, giant head. I returned home to look online for the hat. Turns out that Tilley sells their hats online and has a pretty nice website. The hats were actually a bit more expensive online even before shipping costs. Just another cost of having an enormous noggin.

"Well, what's so great about these Tilley hats anyway?" you ask. Well, in addition to being standard issue for at least some of the Canadian armed forces, the hats are guaranteed for life and insured against loss for the first two years. If during the first two years something happens to your hat, like say your dog eats it, they'll give you a new one for half price. If it ever wears out due to useage, they'll replace it for free. It's a nice looking hat with all sorts of neat little features. On top of everything else, the owners of the hats form somewhat of a cult dedicated to prophesizing the wonders of the hat. The site is filled with anecdotes of travelers meeting other like souls based upon their headware.