Post #362144 by Mr. NoNaMe on Tue, Feb 19, 2008 9:25 AM

Here goes...

Target is by far better at introducing tiki to America. We laugh at the Target stuff because we are superior to people who don't know tiki, but inside our minds we are thinking "OOooo, that piece is kinda neat!"
Maybe we (you & me) go into TB to see the tiki stuff? In our heads we are thinking, "Hmm, this must be what JB has in his house." Then by accident we blurt out "25 HUNDRED DOLLARS?!? Are they nuts?!" and then four old couples gasp and look at you. You swear you hear them say under their collective breath, "go back to target, punk." Well, maybe it hasn't happened to you. :)

It is pure economics. Could you imagine pushing your kid around safely secured in the shopping cart up and down the aisles of Tommy Bahama looking for the buy 1 get 1 Tahitian vanilla shampoo conditioner combo? Your six year old says "Mother, I would so very much enjoy having that oak chiffarobe with the brass handles fashioned after the colobus." "Oh, and that leather hassock with the braided leather parrot would look lovely in father's study. Would it not, mummy?"

I guess I ain't diggin the Tommy Bahama scene. I would rather just hunt out Witco pieces and pay top dollar. And I would much rather have a $5 40 year old King's Road aloha shirt than a $150 TB shirt.

I would love to know if Tommy B's merch is handcrafted in the south pacific. I know Target's is not.