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Island Icon - the shirt on Mechanics of Style
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:32 am
by Tobi
Here's a link to the Girard-Perregaux blog on the Aloha Shirt
http://www.mechanicsofstyle.com/island- ... oha-shirt/
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:49 pm
by Braddah Kimo
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:26 pm
by MagnumILWU
Yes, the "Hawaiian" Aloha shirt! Invented by a Chinese merchant, who made them by sewing old kimono fabric together!
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:45 am
by Braddah Kimo
MagnumILWU wrote:Yes, the "Hawaiian" Aloha shirt!
...as opposed to say, the Alaskan Aloha shirt. or maybe the Nordic aloha shirt....
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:23 am
by MagnumILWU
No, the Chinese Aloha shirt!
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:57 am
by Braddah Kimo
the lineage could be pake/japanee/Hawaiian aloha shirt.
Created in Hawai'i from Kimono fabric by a Pake.
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:59 pm
by MagnumILWU
Could be, but isn't.