Tilley cobber in the news!
July 23, 2011The National Post and The Globe and Mail both recently ran articles on the neck cobbers.
The Buy: A cooling neck wrap
Nathalie Atkinson, National Post, July 21, 2011.
"Several Christmases ago my parents – whom time has proven to be genetically unable to resist a gadget or gewgaw that might be useful in only very narrowly specific circumstances – bought me this jaunty neckerwraperchief thing. Presumably, its optimum use is hiking in the Amazon jungle during a heat wave (something I have never been known to do). It’s from Australia and called the Cobber (Aussie slang for mate, apparently) and contains some magical crystals that, when soaked in cold water for 30 minutes, retain said coldness for three days. Three days.
Why wear what is essentially a mysteriously-filled cold compress wrapped around the neck? Because as a toque-covered head in winter is to keeping warm, so are the corotid arteries in summer to regulating body temperature. You could knot a waterlogged kerchief or facecloth instead, but it would drip inconveniently all over you. And then dry out. The Cobber, on the other hand, will not. It will not be particularly fashionable, either, but it will make all that tropical jungle hiking pleasantly bearable."
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