Do you wear tikis?
 

Just wondering, which organizations wear tikis? Is this a predominately NPHC/Multicultural greek thing?

I'm going to guess since I don't know what a tiki is (in this sense) that it's either regional or NPHC/MCGLO.

I've seen pictures of some NPC sororities, but overall, yes it is predominantly an NPHC/MGLO thing.

What are they?
Post pics please?

So it's like a lavalier except more like beads or plastic on leather cords?

its a wooden lavalier. I've seen a lot of folks wear them down south.

Gotcha, haven't seen anything like that in the midwest.. by which I mean from St. Louis to UofI Champaign

not even amongst minority organizations?

Haven't seen it in the Greek stores... and on SLU's campus the most you saw of the NPHC were jackets and a few flyers.. but never saw tikis.

But I did go shopping in Champaign and did not see these there.

If they're cheaper than lavaliers and other necklaces, I'd see them as a great thing to wear in the summer.

they cost about $16 each and you generally wear them when its too hot to wear a jacket or throw on a tshirt with letters.

I've seen them worn at clubs mostly.

they're a lot bigger than lavalieres so they're a lot more conspicuous

I wouldn't think most people would wear letters at clubs with the alcohol thing. I don't know other orgs rule on that though.

I'd definately wear it with a tank and shorts.. more beachy attire (even if a beach weren't in sight). I have other SK necklaces (including a flipflop!) though that would be more appropriate for going out.

And no letters w/ alcohol of course.

People wore them at U of I (along w/dog tags), but I'm not sure that they were sold in all of the campus stores.

Most times, you'll find that you have to order teekees (tikis) from a greek-wear website. I don't think I've EVER seen them in a store, and all the one's I've ever bought have come from one website or another. In regard to them being like lavaliers, yes and no... they're generally about 3-4 inches tall. I don't wear it to the club unless it's letters to get in discounted, but it comes off the minute I walk in the door - no letters & alcohol.

To answer the original question, though, I've seen them primarily for NPHC and cultural/multicultural greek orgs.

i've seen themmade for NPC and IFC (specfically,ive seen GPhiB and TKE),but ive never seen members wear them before. doesnt mean they dont, since i dont associate/party with any NPC/IFC members.

so yes, perhaps tikis are more an NPHC/multicultural thing.

i'm from the south and I've never seen them, but that doesn't surprise me.

In the Seventies I wore a dashiki. Does that count? I don't know if it was multicultural, but it certainly was multicolored (make that "is". I still have it.)

Sick, huh?

whats a dashiki :p

dashiki:http://www.abcme.com/imagestuff4sale/dashiki.jpg
tiki:http://www.adgreek.com/prd/TIKI1.jpg

Groovy man, that's it! :)

Oh Jono, you slay me!

Denise

Most LGLO members wear these.

I've seen Service/Music Greeks wear them. I have one!

Do you have any pictures of you with your sisters wearing them that you could post on here? The only ones that I saw were on Migente and you can't right click and get picture properties on Migente.

I've never seen anyone wear them.

To be honest I think they're ugly :-/

We have two greek stores that I know of in Houston who's greek mechandise is 98% NPHC and I've seen them in those stores. Some vendors will sell them at our regional and national meetings. I have one that I got at one of the greek stores. I'll ususlly wear it to a greek party / step show.

They exist for APO. I have a few in my collection and have given them out to new Brothers as gifts.

I received an AKA tiki as a crossing gift, but I've only worn it once. I'll give it some more wear this summer. :)

I have seen tikis, but have never worn one. Maybe it's something I may look for at Boule.

what school are you from? is it not popular on campus?

I was initiated into my sorority on the graduate level. Tikis are very popular among members of NPHC here in NYC. Many undergrad members wear them a lot. Most guys I know wear them a lot too.

We have tikis as well. They're real popular with the bruhs... :D

The one Alpha tiki I got, I hung on the wall. I think I subsequently passed it along to a neo.

I gave an APO tiki as a gift to one of our neos.

I see people wearing them all the time. I prefer seeing them on rearview mirrors instead of around necks. But to each his or her own, since it's not against protocol or necessarily a tacky piece of 'nalia.

They remind me of the Africa necklaces that were popular in the 80's and early 90's. :)

I do, but I'm not comfortable posting pics of my sisters on the 'net without their permission. :) Someone posted a great picture of what tikis look like on the first page of this thread.

Thanks for everyone's response.

I'm going to seek out who makes these tikis and try to sell them through an ecommerce greek store that I've been working on. I just needed to know if people wear them nationwide haha.

echoing with chaos, i have one hanging from my r.v., but wear it, uhhh no, 'I' am just not a neckace kinda gal anyway though.

Back in the day, before I came through..I used to see peeps wearing them. I always thought they were phat!