Quote Originally Posted by Coemgen View Post
Besides, I can always pretend I'm on safari; I might as well be! The students here are animals, and the dorms are jungles, so I might as well go whole hog and get a safari shirt, a machete, and a khaki kilt (and, of course, a loyal native guide/servant/friend who wears a fez and gives wise, but cryptic advice)!
I'd definately go with the loyal native guide. Sounds like a fun way to spend the summer.

If you do get the pith helmet get the straw one. I know it is a little more expensive, but one of the asphalt highway construction companies that I have to do inspection on has a (working)forman who wears one and swears by it. The straw one has lots of air flow through it, and he says that it is cool in the summer, and certainly provides lots of shade while he and the crew are out in the open laying asphalt. Of course there is the usual amount of ribbing that goes on with the hat, but no more so than for my Tilley.

Anyone else out there own a Tilley? Best hat ever made.