Friday, February 3, 2012

Aloha Shirt Feast

Last night I discovered an Aloha Shirt Shop & Museum down in Wilea. At the earliest opportunity I went back today to REALLY check it out! What a feast!

I took a lot of photos going back to shirts from the 1940's for $400 - $1200!!
But there were inexpensive reproductions too. I bought modestly, but photographed extravagantly.

OK. I'm going to give you the best of my feast. 

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, for kitch, good taste, bad taste, the lot!
Sorry, I might, in your view, be going overboard. But I have my enthusiasms!!
The one on the left features the cup flower, an extra-ordinary a plant.
Onto all the possible Hawaiian memes! Palms, coconuts, volcanic mountains, special flowers & leaves, surf-boarding, bamboo, fish, leis, whales, the ocean; & different styles: Japanese, Balinese, Javanese, Maori, & so on.






another ukelele - - pronounced oo-ke-le-le & means, in Hawaiin  it means "jumping fleas"!!!






This was the sort we got for George.
                                            That's it for today. Carried away with/by Aloha Shirts!!

2 comments:

  1. I only love about a quarter of them (and those I love a lot!), but it I love the range itself too.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I don't love them all either, but I do love the development and variation on the idea.

      Delete