Cool Tiki shirts at Target...

Weird Uncle, you're gonna like this:

Last night Stacey and I went to Target (She is a Targetoholic). We saw the coolest shirts, but there was one problem; I did not see any in adult sizes.
So those of you with kids, Target has Cherokee brand shirts with Tiki Themes.
They have Castaway Charlies Water Taxi (with three Moai rowing a canoe), Aloha Lanes Bowling, Tiki Palooza (featuring the Bongo Brothers), Lava Louies, Pineapple Petes and my favorite, Uncle Tiki's Big Island Motel.
They were $6.49.

Too bad we were unable to find adult sizes. But if you get the chance to check 'em out, they are really neat.
:tiki:

Yeah, I saw these too. I have a 2 year old so I snapped up a couple of them. But you're right - no adult sizes. Bummer.

I guess its true; Tiki has gone mainstream.

We got a bunch of these for my soon-to-be one-year-old. Perfect gear for his 1st Birthday/Tiki party on Saturday.
Starting `em young!

Thanks for the heads-up. I don't have any kids of my own but I like to dress up my preschool students in matching outfits when we go on field trips. I'll have to look at them and consider them for thie summer 2002 official field-trip uniform!

A few years ago my wife found this AMAZING tiki shirt at target- it was for kids i think, but it fit her:

it was a pink tanktop with a small tiki iron-on of a cartoony KU god next to some red cocktail looking drink. It said "RASPBERRY FIZZ" on it in googie lettering-

BUT GET THIS:

It was a SCRATCH N SNIFF SHIRT!

If you scratched it, it smelled like rasberries! And the smell lasted and lasted through a bunch of washes. Then she lost it, and I've never seen one again since :(

Thanks for mentioning this great find! I went to my local Target in Culver City, CA and sure enough, there they were. I got the bowling one with the tiki-headed pins, the water taxi and Tiki Palooza for my nephew.

On 2002-04-28 11:56, bigbrotiki wrote in "my Tiki stuff on e-bay":

The same goes for ripping off Tiki design (Target just did it again with Bosko's Tiki canoe)...
Boy did they ever! Just went to see "Dogtown" with my son this afternoon (the footage of the delapidated Pacific Ocean Park pier [B.o.T. page 196] is awesome, what an urban archeologist's paradise this must have been, one can see the A-frame entrance and volcano of the Beachcomber ride), so afterwards I went to the Target store next door to get Diego some of the aforementioned T-shirts:

This has to be the most democratic of the rip offs I have come across yet. Many of the prominent TABOO artists of the first generation are represented (without their knowledge, I bet), with some alterations off course:
The "Watertaxi" is from Bosko
The "Twin Tikis" sleeveless T is early Shag
There's also an Aloha shirt/shorts pattern that has a mutated shag mask woven into it.
The "Uncle Tiki's" (I think that's what it's called) is straight House Industries' Tiki Font
The "Aloha Lanes" bowling pin faces are from the Poster Pop sticker by Alan Forbes
The pineapple Tiki I have seen somewhere before, too..

They must not have my book, cause I did not recognize anything swiped from it. I'm gonna have to complain. I think!