Island Icon - the shirt on Mechanics of Style

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Tobi · #1 Post by **Tobi** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:32 am

Here's a link to the Girard-Perregaux blog on the Aloha Shirt

http://www.mechanicsofstyle.com/island- ... oha-shirt/

Braddah Kimo · #2 Post by **Braddah Kimo** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:49 pm

Hack journalism at its best. Missed the boat fairly completely; A good chance to do an accurate article on Aloha shirts but comes up short. so sad.

MagnumILWU · #3 Post by **MagnumILWU** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:26 pm

Yes, the "Hawaiian" Aloha shirt! Invented by a Chinese merchant, who made them by sewing old kimono fabric together!

Braddah Kimo · #4 Post by **Braddah Kimo** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:45 am

MagnumILWU wrote:Yes, the "Hawaiian" Aloha shirt!

...as opposed to say, the Alaskan Aloha shirt. or maybe the Nordic aloha shirt....

MagnumILWU · #5 Post by **MagnumILWU** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:23 am

No, the Chinese Aloha shirt!

Braddah Kimo · #6 Post by **Braddah Kimo** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:57 am

the lineage could be pake/japanee/Hawaiian aloha shirt.
Created in Hawai'i from Kimono fabric by a Pake.

MagnumILWU · #7 Post by **MagnumILWU** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:59 pm

Could be, but isn't.