safari suit

News submitted by Gus 

This Safari icon, long believed to be lost in antiquity, was recently unearthed when the Malanda Springs Hotel on the Atherton Tablelands renovated their toilet block.

Builder and part time archeologist Kamahl Rodriguez immediately recognised the coveted trophy as his bobcat gently nudged the artifact from the age old pub foundations.

The Trophy has been missing, presumed lost forever, since 1994. ” I was bloody stunned. ’I'd always dreamed of unearthing the big one..and here it was tucked away behind the S-bend in cubicle No. 3.’ said Kamahl.

He is now considering offers from most of the major Australian museums to add the piece to their collections. ‘I’m having to beat those Museum Curators off with a sh#%*tty stick, they’re desperate to get it!’ he added.

The Trophy won by the first Don Dunstan Young Achiever Award winner, Mr Nick McBride esquire, was spirited out of South Australia shortly after his triumphant victory at the Exeter Hotel. Mr McBride travelled North as an itinerant style consultant, and lost the coveted trophy during a thirty day bender on the Table Lands.

For some years now the Don Dunstan Young Achiever Award trophy looks like this, as modelled by last year’s winners Wes and Guy.

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In anticipation of the next annual safari event here’s something to keep you going.

Contributed by Dave Braunsthal in Sweden

I would like to proudly announce the succesful holding of the very first, annual, Safari on ice, Sweden on 22 December 2002 on a small insignificant lake in the south of Sweden, became the fashion focus of the modern world!

Unfortunately, due to the lack of advertising or possibly the 15 degree below zero temperatures, the numbers were not quite what I had hoped for, how ever, the dapper duds, walk socks and safari attire in general was well represented.

The Lapellafella award winner 2001 (Mr Dave Braunsthal) was keen to prove that the Pearl Harbour conditions were not going to get in the way of his day out.

After mixing it with the rest of the events participants (the photographer) David proceeded to impress with his dazzling ice manouvres.

Otherwise a very stylish turn.

And a brilliant finish.

And you’re wondering why David looks so happy on the ice in his shorts in freezing conditions?

The ice held.

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While surfing on the net one of safari’s Hall of Famer’s, Maz, found out that leisure suits and safari suits are pretty much one and the same.

This image, coutesy of the Henry Ford Museum website leisure suit section, talks about leisure suits getting the respect they deserve - and rightly so.

The Bad Fads site describes their origins and says that they even became banned at some restaurants.

There is, or used to be an annual leisure suit convention which sounds a lot like our safari suit pub crawls. “When you wear a leisure suit you turn into a completely different person,” explains Van Hardin, founder of the convention. “You don’t have the tie to inhibit you. You can eat food, and if you spill, it slides right off.”

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