Great line of Muted Hawaiian shirts at Penneys - General Tiki

K Kaiwaza Tiki Socialite Waikiki Beach, Hawaii Joined: Aug 06, 2003 Posts: 560	K Kaiwaza Posted posted on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 2:12 PM This brings me to an interesting question that I don't actually know the answer to....... Since I'm living in Hawaii, I only see what's offered here in the shops. In Waikiki, and a few select other locations, you can find, along with the muted designs, the typical 50s-60s style highly colorful whimsical Hawaiian shirts with tikis, cocktails, hula girls, Pearl Harbor, fruit bowls, volcanoes , etc on them. In the more residential shopping venues there is plenty of "aloha wear", but it's mostly of the more muted "Tommy Bahama" "tasteful" variety, also suitable for work here in the islands. I'm wondering if at the mainland regular retailers (Sears, Pennys and such) if they regularly offer any Hawaiian shirts and if they do, are they normally the muted variety? I'm curious too, as I've seen a few typical brightly colored "Hawaiian" shirts that had Caribbean islands on them, if these types of shirts are commonly sold in the Caribbean isles as well? I know the "Hawaiian" shirts are sold at all the vendors in "Tropical China" (Sanya) now and they are calling it "Hainan wear." It appears the same as what's sold here in Waikiki, with I imagine, with a change in words/phrases on the shirts. Miss World was held there again recently (Sanya, China), and the mayor or governor of the region was onstage presenting awards in aloha wear...interesting. I would expect a lot of the "native souvenirs" and shirt fabrics (that I dearly love) sold in Waikiki, the Caribbean, Tropical China probably all come out of the same factories in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines..:)

This brings me to an interesting question that I don't actually know the answer to.......

Since I'm living in Hawaii, I only see what's offered here in the shops. In Waikiki, and a few select other locations, you can find, along with the muted designs, the typical 50s-60s style highly colorful whimsical Hawaiian shirts with tikis, cocktails, hula girls, Pearl Harbor, fruit bowls, volcanoes , etc on them. In the more residential shopping venues there is plenty of "aloha wear", but it's mostly of the more muted "Tommy Bahama" "tasteful" variety, also suitable for work here in the islands.

I'm wondering if at the mainland regular retailers (Sears, Pennys and such) if they regularly offer any Hawaiian shirts and if they do, are they normally the muted variety?
I'm curious too, as I've seen a few typical brightly colored "Hawaiian" shirts that had Caribbean islands on them, if these types of shirts are commonly sold in the Caribbean isles as well? I know the "Hawaiian" shirts are sold at all the vendors in "Tropical China" (Sanya) now and they are calling it "Hainan wear." It appears the same as what's sold here in Waikiki, with I imagine, with a change in words/phrases on the shirts. Miss World was held there again recently (Sanya, China), and the mayor or governor of the region was onstage presenting awards in aloha wear...interesting.

I would expect a lot of the "native souvenirs" and shirt fabrics (that I dearly love) sold in Waikiki, the Caribbean, Tropical China probably all come out of the same factories in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines..:)

Post #375941 by Kaiwaza on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 2:12 PM