Hawaiian Shirts
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Hawaiian Shirts -- I remember the first time I saw a husband and wife in their matching aloha shirt and dress. It was hilarious ...
Looking back, there are now some fantastic looking Shirts that will fetch hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Am I getting old, or do I just appreciate everything Hawaii? I think it is the latter.
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Look at this amazing fabric.
This isn't the tacky stuff you occasionally see now ... this is a work of art.
In Hawaii the shirts are known as Aloha shirts, but once shipped to the mainland, the name is Hawaiian as opposed to Aloha.
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The modern Aloha shirt was devised in the early 1930s by Chinese merchant Ellery Chun of King-Smith Clothiers and Dry Goods. The shirts are printed, mostly short-sleeved, and collared. They usually have buttons, sometimes as a complete button-down shirt, and sometimes just down to the chest.
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Men's aloha shirts manufactured for local Hawaiian residents are usually adorned with traditional Hawaiian quilt designs, tapa designs, or simple floral patterns in more muted colors.
As Hawaii tends to be more casual, it is rarely appropriate to attend such functions in full evening wear like on the mainland; instead, Aloha Attire is seen as the happy medium between excessive formality and casual wear. |
We'd be remiss if we didn't include the biggest Aloha Shirt created by the
Hilo Hattie company.
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These are absolutely gorgeous in my opinion.
Thank you Jasmine for sending us these photos of her two favorites just purchased by her husband.
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I have to tell you, normally I'm not a fan of dressing up your pets ... but ...
Paco looks sooooo cute.
Paco's owner Maria sent us this incredibly sweet photo of Paco wearing his Hawaiian shirt and lei.
Thanks Maria! |
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This just has to make you smile ... Lisa sent us this photo of her two sons, Jordan and Nicholas, our two little Hawaiians in training.
Absolutely precious. Thank you Lisa! |
I got a kick out of this sign for the men's room in the O'ahu airport, complete with Hawaiian shirt and lei on the little man.
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