Anselm: http://www.tilley.com/Hats.aspx

Cold, in case you're still up in the air about how to express your fashion sense in Paris, I find perusing the People of Walmart website always gives me fresh ideas.

Royal - no can do but cheer for our Canadian Milos Raonic. You better get to his first match as clay won't be his surface.

Thanks for the idea StCirq. And yes I thought Tilley was famous for hats.

At first, I thought you were joking. Surely you can find SOMETHING in your closet other than tennis shorts. The weather is so unpredictable in Paris that you could be cold in shorts. Parisians do not walk around in shorts; have some respect for their sensibilities; it's really not that difficult. I've found that as an American who travels to Europe frequently, that if you honor their ways, they'll be respectful, but if you insist on doing it "your way" you could be either laughed at or rudely dismissed. Is it really worth proving a point?

Ummm...jenack...let's just say your first instinct was correct.

Oh, StCirq, I know about Tilley hats. They do make a certain ... statement, I guess one would say.

My brother owns a few.

I don't.

<<They do make a certain ... statement>>

Yes they do. And if I had a purple fanny pack, I'd tie it around the Tilley to make an even bolder statement.

StCirq seems doubtful. I wish I had picture of me wearing my fanny pack and tennis shorts but no one has ever wanted to take my picture while I was wearing both of them.

I am leaning towards replacing the tennis shorts with nice long tailored golf shorts. Very close to the knee. The French like golf I think.

StCirq seems doubtful. I wish I had picture of me wearing my fanny pack and tennis shorts but no one has ever wanted to take my picture while I was wearing both of them>>

look away now!

I like this quote on the homepage of the Tilley Hat website:

“ Your hidden pocket in the men’s pants came in handy in Mexico City three years ago. My husband was pick-pocketed on the subway. Thanks to the hidden pocket, our passports and credit cards remained safe!”

Maybe if they had put their money in the hidden pocket too they wouldn't have been pickpocketed at all.

FMT - if I go with a full Tilley wardrobe I won't get close to my wife, which would be sad on an anniversary trip. She has great fashion sense and Tilley men turn her off.

Stick with the fannypack and tennis shorts. You might look like a dork in a Tilley hat.

"<i>You might like a dork in a Tilley hat.</i>"

A Tilley pretty much guarantees a swift slide from normality to dork-dom. One wouldn't even pause in nerd-dom.

I surrender, Anne Frank is the attic. Just pick an outfit.

I appreciate the help. I think the concensus is to go with something normal looking. I belong to a golf course and will just wear what I wear there. The pants all like this:

http://www.onlygolfapparel.com/greg-...tech-pant.aspx

That will allow me to stick with the fanny pack.

Nothing wrong with those. Throw on a pair of thick rimmed glasses and you could end up on The Sartorialist.

If the shorts are truly short and ridiculous enough it won't be a problem. People will think it's a hot new fashion if you really work the shorts!

And for God's sake don't forget the usual and expected greeting. Bon Jour. Does my butt look fat in these (white) shorts?

I should have linked to this at the start. It turns out it is not a purple fanny pack. They call it grape.

http://pacsafe.com/www/show_big_imag...shSafe-100.jpg

Got some great pictures wearing that at Machu Picchu, though I wasn't wearing the tennis shorts out of respect for the Incas.

Please don't forget to take the white belt with those pants. And maybe some kneesocks for the shorts and white tennis shoes.

Black kneesocks.