{"id":1278,"date":"2016-07-31T20:47:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T20:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ber10thal.com\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2016-08-01T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:36:51","slug":"how-to-fit-your-tilley-hat-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/how-to-fit-your-tilley-hat-sorta\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fit your Tilley hat (sorta)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife bought me a Tilley hat last year while we were at REI.\u00a0\u00a0I read the sizing instructions that come on a small pamphlet inside of the hat many\u00a0times\u00a0before choosing the size. My wife said several times that it\u00a0seemed big. I kept saying that based on the sizing instructions it was correct. After a few weeks I started to get comments and realize that I might be wearing the wrong size. It turns out my dad has been wearing a Tilley hat for over 25\u00a0years and was kind of an expert on how to fit these hats, but I’ll get back to this later. In my opinion the sizing instructions describe a very different fit then what the sizing chart specifies<\/strong>. Here are the sizing instructions:<\/p>\n

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The Tilley Hat fits more comfortably than other hats. It\u2019s designed to be worn low on your head and slightly loose. It should be held on by gravity, not by painful pressure on your forehead!<\/strong> For the proper fit, you should be able to easily insert two fingers, flat, between the middle of your forehead and the front of the Hat. The Hat should be loose enough that you can rotate it to the left and right, and lift it up and down, without friction on your forehead. When it\u2019s windy, use the cord! I think you\u2019ll be pleased with the way it fits and feels \u2013 especially on hot, muggy days.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
To me these instructions describe much different fit\u00a0then what the chart specifies. Shown below:<\/p>\n
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Sizing instructions vs the sizing chart<\/strong><\/h4>\n
The sizing instructions\u00a0says it should, 1.<\/strong> Be held on by gravity, not painful pressure. 2.<\/strong> That you should be able to easily insert two fingers\u00a0between the middle of your forehead and the front of the Hat. It also says, 3.<\/strong>The Hat should be loose enough that you can rotate it to the left and right, and lift it up and down, without friction on your forehead. Based on these instructions I picked at hat that sat low on my head, I could easily put two fingers between the hat and my forehead (without pulling the hat forward to create space), and one that I could rotate left and right. Basically a bucket type of fit.<\/p>\n
When I started to suspect that I purchased the wrong size I called Tilley to ask about the fit. The woman\u00a0told me to measure my head, then gave me my hat size.\u00a0When I told her the size I purchased and she laughed, and said something to the effect it was several sizes too big. My head measured 22″, and I had purchased the 7 3\/8″ It sat low\u00a0as described, and matched all of the other characteristics\u00a0of the sizing instructions. The hat\u00a0actually became uncomfortable because it would either curl my ears over or they\u00a0would go under the brim. Neither was comfortable.<\/p>\n
Back to my dad. I went to Florida to visit my parents recently and one of the first things they said to me was my hat was too big. My dad let me wear his hat the entire time I was there, it was 7 1\/8″, he said it was a much better fit and that my actual fit should be just a bit smaller. He was so right! I won’t mention that he may be the best Tilley hat salesman on the east coast. I noticed several people in his housing area with Tilley hats and he later told me it was because of him.<\/p>\n
The way my proper hat size\u00a0fits is not at all like the sizing instructions.<\/strong> It’s snug!, It’s not strangling my head, but I would call it snug. I have not tested this but, I think if I hung upside down it would not fall off. I can fit two fingers between the front of the hat\u00a0and my forehead but, I have to pull the hat forward by the brim with a bit of force to create the space. I can rotate the hat left and right on my head but there is friction. Done fast enough I’m sure I could create a fire. The nice thing about wearing the\u00a0proper size\u00a0is that it no longer fell\u00a0over my ears (which caused irritation). And, I could comfortably wear the hat with sunglasses and it did not interfere with the arms of sunglasses.<\/p>\n
Below are the images of the hat on Tilley’s website:<\/p>\n
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In all of the above photos the hat sits above the top of ears\u00a0which\u00a0does not coincide with \u00a0the\u00a0sizing instructions. There is one photo below that show a fit more in line with the sizing instructions. In the above photos the hat sits down to about the middle of the forehead.<\/p>\n
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This photo above seems more like the bucket style fit that the sizing instructions describe. We cannot see her ears, but I suspect it’s over or touching them. The hat sits down to the bottom of her forehead.<\/p>\n
I believe\u00a0there is a great great disparity between what the sizing instructions describe and what the sizing chart specifies.<\/strong>\u00a0Which happens to be the LTM6.<\/p>\n
I know somewhere deep within the Tilley headquarters sits one of my dads old hats on display demonstrating the durably, quality and longevity of this hat and the company behind it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My wife bought me a Tilley hat last year while we were at REI.\u00a0\u00a0I read the sizing instructions that come on a small pamphlet inside of the hat many\u00a0times\u00a0before choosing the size. My wife said several times that it\u00a0seemed big. I kept saying that based on the sizing instructions it was correct. After a few … Continue reading How to fit your Tilley hat (sorta)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}