“[The] director of the Bowmanville Zoo had an elephant that would reach up and snatch off and eat his beloved Tilley hat,” he said. “In time, everything could come to pass. [He] would wash i ...

TORONTO – Alex Tilley ... the light coloured hat with coffee to make it more camouflaged. One advertisement boasted how the material was tough enough to be eaten by an elephant three times ...

Handcrafted in Toronto, The Tilley Winter Hat ($95) from Tilley Endurables is as stylish as it is warm. That could mean it is ugly and cold, but if that were the case, you wouldn’t be reading ...

Alex Tilley ... dyed the light coloured hat with coffee to make it more camouflaged. One advertisement boasted how the material was tough enough to be eaten by an elephant three times and survive ...

Tilley Endurables ... itself often bragged of the hats having emerged unscathed from the jaws of a lion and passing through the digestive system of an elephant three times. The idea behind ...

Those loyal fans – sailors, birdwatchers, travellers of a certain age – have kept Tilley Endurables Inc ... boasting that a Tilley hat had travelled through an elephant’s digestive system ...

“[The] director of the Bowmanville Zoo had an elephant that would reach up and snatch off and eat his beloved Tilley hat,” he said. “In time, everything could come to pass. [He] would wash i ...

Alex Tilley ... dyed the light coloured hat with coffee to make it more camouflaged. One advertisement boasted how the material was tough enough to be eaten by an elephant three times and survive ...