Summer hat for the follicly challenged - Tilley hat style?

You want something Tilley shaped but made of straw from the Indiana Jones ride at EuroDisney, bought for the day but still good 20 years later.

I bought one from a hat shop in Dorset.

Has a fabric brim and top,  but the sides are entirely wide space mesh. A bit like this one https://www.hatsandcaps.co.uk/products/dorfman-pacific-hats-cooler-mesh-outback-hat-grey

Keeps my head shaded and i get a nice breeze through it too.

I suspect the tilley ones are a bit warm than that.

Panama hat.

Watching with interest. Also rocking the cue ball style and a belief that all hats look ridiculous on me. I have an unfeasibly large collection of tatty baseball caps. I need to up my sartorial game but am a bit clueless and wary of looking a bigger muppet than usual.

You need a selection!

✔️ Tilley style
✔️ Panama
✔️ Aussie Bush Hat

…and Peaky Blinders cap for the soft-top! 🤣

Hats are great!

Except baseball caps for me - I look a right knobber in them!

A parasol is what you need.

Or a parasol hat if you intend to carry shopping.

HTH 😊

I've got the summer tilley and the normal one it was definitely worth it , often discounted at go outdoors too

I have one of these, which I find keeps me cool*

https://www.tarphat.co.uk/products/1/wide-brim-tarp-hats/1/the-original-amazonas-tarp-hat

this is an even cooler style:

https://www.tarphat.co.uk/products/8/wide-brim-side-vented-tarp-hats/26/original-side-vented-tarp-hat

I also always have a bandana in a bag/pocket/round my neck. They are so versatile in summer and winter.

*in both senses, dude.

Get a Tilley?

Lifetime guarantee up to and including "it blew off my head and down a ravine, can I have another one please?"

Panama hat from Christy.

As the average toilet bowl has more hair on it than the top of my bonce, and my skin tone betrays my Irish heritage, I have a huge selection of hats

Now I’m over 50, I thought it only right that I own a proper Panama hat, but most of the time I wear one of these

Except baseball caps for me – I look a right knobber in them

So do most people. Certainly people of… ahem…. a certain age. I’m with Pete Docharty (a man who knows a thing or two about hats) on this one.

The lyrics from ‘a Time For Heroes’…

He knows there's fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap

IMO it is wide brimmed hats that look ridiculous on an Englishman (fine on an American or Mexican) although they obviously have sun protection advantages.

For that reason I would go for a pork pie hat - think of how cool Gene Hackman looked in The French Connection. Obviously a straw pork pie hat for the summer.

Gene Hackman, that well-known Englishman?

We sell these hats and they are the business.
The wind goes through the weave and I've never had a hint of a burnt head even when in the tropics.

Ps we also sell the colourful jackets!

Very Michael Portillo 😃

Why do you want Tilley hat style but not Tilley?

Get a Stetson!

Plenty of different styles to suit different budgets.

https://stetson.eu/gb/

Why do you want Tilley hat style but not Tilley?

My standard Tilley is too hot in summer, so i was trying to find out if their summer/airflow hats were worth it or if there were alternatives

IMO it is wide brimmed hats that look ridiculous on an Englishman

What about on Scotsman or Welsh?

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Try this, from Buff, I find they work well (have a couple)

https://www.buff.com/gb/adventure-bucket-beanie-buff-acai-khaki-khaki-125343854.html

I have a Tilley hemp hat, always wanted one since I read a story about one being eaten by an elephant, crapped out and (after a wash), being perfectly fine.

Best hat I own for the summer. It's brilliant.

I've been bald for donkey's years, hate the feel of the sun burning on top of my head, work outdoors, naturally pale celtic complexion and have had malignant melanoma. So, I wear a hat but the majority make me sweaty which I hate so it's usually a straw hat for the breeze to blow through and they are the ones I can wear most comfortably for a long time. But be aware, a certain amount of sunlight does get through them so I wear sun block as well. The ones with the holed patterns in the side as most have do leave you vulnerable. I once came back from a long days walking in blistering sun to find the hat pattern had been branded around my head, that was a conversation piece in the pub later 🙂

Tilley Airflo on my head right now, top purchase around 4 years ago

I have one of these,

https://www.tarphat.co.uk/products/1/wide-brim-tarp-hats/1/the-original-amazonas-tarp-hat

Tilley Airflo on my head right now, top purchase around 4 years ago

And there is a discount on at the moment, which swung it for me

For that reason I would go for a pork pie hat – think of how cool Gene Hackman looked in The French Connection

I’m reckoning that’s when it comes to closely resembling iconic figures in statement headgear, the average STWer (and I include myself in this) is less Gene Hackman in The French Connection or Thomas Shelbey in Peaky Blinders and more Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em 😂

Some on here like to think they wear their beret like Wolfie in the Tooting Popular Liberation Front, but i suspect it's more Frsnk Spencer

I got this 'cowboy hat' the other year. I'm rarely brave enough to wear it due to the piss taking, but it does the job magnificently. Otherwise I have a couple of baseball caps that do the job, but have no where near enough coverage for proper sun.

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Some on here like to think they wear their beret like Wolfie in the Tooting Popular Liberation Front, but i suspect it’s more Frsnk Spencer

I’ve long suspected, from both his geographical location and his oft-espoused political opinions, that our Croydon Comrade, Ernesto, is in fact a certain well known person posting under a pseudonym

Now that he’s revealed his choice of headwear, he’s now confirmed my suspicions were correct

You want one of those hats with the propeller on top...you know from Paul Hogan show..alright mate..ha ha ha

My standard Tilley is too hot in summer, so i was trying to find out if their summer/airflow hats were worth it or if there were alternatives

Oh in that case we have airflo ones (plastic mesh round the top) which work a treat. Used them for a decade in Japan where the ventilation really helped. My wife just managed to wash out most of the mould/staining too, they are almost like new.

Just bought one of these for the summer holiday (well, honeymoon). I’m rubbish in the sun so need something to keep it at bay. Might look like a bit of a chuff in it but it’s nice and cool and has good coverage.

https://arcteryx.com/gb/en/shop/sinsola-hat

I’ve got one of these, specifically for summer - I think I got it at a festival, but eBay do similar.

I mostly wear one of these cloth caps, though, light, comfy, and easy to fold up and stuff in a pocket or bag.

Wide brimmed hats are a bad idea if on the bike. They seem to channel wasps/bees/insects right to your forehead.

I’m rarely brave enough to wear it due to the piss taking, but it does the job magnificently.

Honestly, bollocks to them. They'll stop taking the piss as soon as they realise you're not rising to it. You know, like the schoolchildren they are.

Now that he’s revealed his choice of headwear, he’s now confirmed my suspicions were correct

Thanks binners, I take that as a huge compliment 😎

Both Alexei Sayle's mod dress sense and his politics is something which I can chime with.

And Ullo John is my favourite novelty song ever. It proper warms the cockles of your heart to see a Scouser so enthusiastically embracing Sarf Landan culture.

If it’s good enough for Bob,it’s good enough for me 😊 The Stetson Fairway 👍

Thanks binners, I take that as a huge compliment 😎

It was certainly intended to be Ernesto. I wasn’t joking. It’s how I’ve always pictured you

Not that it's any use to you unless you're going to Santorini, but I have a straw fedora that I bought in Santorini about ten years ago that I use to protect my ever enlargening sunroof.

I'm similar to the OP , inn hat I've had an 'original' Tilley hat for over 20 years.  It's been in the Amazonian jungle for real too.  But also agree it gets sweaty when hot.

I got the aeromesh (or whatever its called) Tilley hat about 6 or 7 years ago and defo find it better in summer (though Mrs robs it often and I have to use the original). I'd defo be happy to buy another.

The Panama hat is reserved for attendance at test cricket 🏏

It’s how I’ve always pictured you

LOL! And you were probably even closer than you realise! I do have a short brim hat in the Gene Hackman/French Connection style (I usually only wear it in the rain though) and I tend to wear plastic rimmed sunglasses all year round (partly because of eye issues) so with the two combined I have had Blues Brothers comments directed at me 😎

In the late 90s I visited Papua New Guinea. I picked up a Graham Gooch cricket hat in a store for 1 Kina. It was great.
somehow I lost it on another foreign trip.
I replaced it with a Tilley hat. No retreats.

Tilley replaced the original hat after about 10 years when the front of it rotted/wore through. Only postage and photos of the defaced hat needed.

The replacement is still going strong about 12 years later.
recommended. Though I’d think about getting mosquito mesh for the brass eyelets depending on where I was going.

I have got one hat that doesn’t get worn often, it’s more of a festival hat, without being one of those weird things with spines and loads of odd colours. It’s just a straw stetson-style thing that I bought at the IoW Festival in 2015, and I bought a dayglo orange bandana to go round it. It wasn’t until a friend watching the festival on telly texted me to say she’d seen me on telly that I realised it was on tv, so I checked it out when I got home. The orange band showed up even when I couldn’t see myself! I mostly don’t wear it because of the brim catching on stuff and not being able to get bag straps over my head. It does show up a bit…

Easy to find in a crowd… 🤪

I do have a couple of Tilly Hats, but one’s a waxed cotton and the other a Wool Canadian Winter - neither appropriate for current weather!

My lightweight Tilly has been a staple for over 10 years. Made of microfibre, it's fabulous. They stopped making them for a few years then brought them back. Very light, packs small and you barely notice you are wearing it. Slightly floppy brim in the wind. Worth every penny.

Newest version here

I've got the OR Helios one like @binners. I've had it 8-9 years now and it's been very good (the only negative is the lack of vents).

Has anyone got a Sunday Afternoons brand sun hat? I've seen some online and they look like a OR - Tilley hybrid

I got this for my hols this year, only 12 English Pounds

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B087C6QYX1?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Turn Japanese.

If you please.

We sell these hats and they are the business.

That looks really good. It's only Portillo if you team it with flamboyant pastels, surely?

Personally I'm wearing either a bucket hat or Olney panama at the mo.

I am currently using one of these on the bike

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224928097527

It looks ridiculous but is cheap, light, and seems to work OK. A bit flappy  faster than 16 mph but bearable.

@countzero...pfft
I was photographed wearing my hat at the Malvern flower show and appeared in the Waitrose magazine.

Turn Japanese.

You really think so?

I was photographed wearing my hat at the Malvern flower show and appeared in the Waitrose magazine.

@zippykona - I think you may have attained middle class nirvana

Its actually a hat that is without doubt the most middle class purchase I've ever made. For winter use, so not applicable here, but its a waxed cotton flat cap, bought from John Lewis. I feel like a better person when I wear it and instinctively head for the nearest Booths 😂

@zippykona - what hat is it?

I use a Buff hat, it works fine but I'm rather disappointed that it quickly faded in the sun (after just a few weeks) and now looks very tired.  It wasn't cheap either.  The outside used to be the same colour as the inside.

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@Elshalimo it's one of these.
I know it's got a lady's name but we sell 50/ 50 to men. There's 2 blue colours and a green as well.
https://www.powder-uk.com/item/2242/SS23/Natalie-Hat-Ochre-with-Suede-Band.html

thanks

Easy to find in a crowd… 🤪

Oddly CZ, I always pictured you as more beardy. Maybe it was the "count" bit.

@Rockhopper That's really bad. Have you got onto Buff / the retailer about it?

Turn Japanese.

You really think so?

My mate has just started to play guitar for the Vapors

No I haven't @Cougar I think i bought it from a shop in Hathersage but it was a while ago now.

it looks like you were at sea for a year, I'd call them