Tiki Books, Common and Obscure - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Nov 8, 2010 3:15 PM On 2010-11-08 13:16, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote: I recently read a book (have to dig up the title later), from the 1930s about a merchandiser who travelled the Orient and South Seas, collecting imagery that could be used in American products (tapa designs, sea shell patterns, thatch, bird feathers, etc.) He may be the person credited with creating the first Aloha shirts and dresses for department stores in the late 1930s. One of his lines of clothing was called "Hei Tiki" - a brand that seems to have been forgotten, but may have been another of those small seeds planted in American culture that caused us to embrace the word "Tiki" in the 1950s. That was Wes' granddad. Could it be that this thread: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22916&forum=1&vpost=284611 ...had escaped your attention all these years, Sabu? The ways of Tiki are mysteriously intertwined!

On 2010-11-08 13:16, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:
I recently read a book (have to dig up the title later), from the 1930s about a merchandiser who travelled the Orient and South Seas, collecting imagery that could be used in American products (tapa designs, sea shell patterns, thatch, bird feathers, etc.) He may be the person credited with creating the first Aloha shirts and dresses for department stores in the late 1930s. One of his lines of clothing was called "Hei Tiki" - a brand that seems to have been forgotten, but may have been another of those small seeds planted in American culture that caused us to embrace the word "Tiki" in the 1950s.

That was Wes' granddad. Could it be that this thread:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22916&forum=1&vpost=284611

...had escaped your attention all these years, Sabu? The ways of Tiki are mysteriously intertwined!

Post #564117 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Nov 8, 2010 3:15 PM