While Detroit Free Press Travel Writer Ellen Creager is away, here is one of her reader-favorite columns from 2012. Ann Bagley was on a Galapagos Islands ferry when she spotted the Tilley Hat Man.

Hilco Capital has acquired Canadian travel hat designer and manufacturer, Tilley Endurables, for an undisclosed sum. The company, which was founded by entrepreneur Alex Tilley in 1980, is famous ...

TORONTO — Alex Tilley, the designer of the iconic Canadian hat bearing his name, has died at 87. The avid sailor created what's now known as the Tilley hat in 1980 to cater to outdoor enthusiasts.

The Tilley hat first came to my notice in Egypt a couple of years ago. Broad-brimmed, brass-studded and made of sturdy canvas, it sat squarely on the head of a fellow American traveler and pyramid ...

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