Hawaiian Shirts Yay or Nay?
batmon
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Ive got two Hawaiian shirts from the late 90s that I rock every once an a blue moon.
Im thinkin bout re-entering them into my summer repertoire.
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the good ones have nice design/colours, but the social stigma associated with it is heavy
i have an ill green one that has not left closet for almost 10 years
it's harder for caucasians to pull off without looking like a florida retirement dude
I havent found any I dig here in memphis, but they are a good summertime look IMO. One day I will find some that suit me.
I found an amazing paisley in the thrift here in Wellfleet last year. I don't wear it often, but I get like a dozen compliments every time I do.
Otherwise, probably no.
Still have many nice ones, but they don't look so good on old guys so I wear rarely.
dude in that video is murdering it.
OR
Like this
like that:
calling them hawaiian shirts makes you sound white as hell
As far as Magnum PI 80s-to now represses, mega-mega NAY. Super wack styles.
I say YAY for truly vintage Aloha Shirts. I'm talking cotton only, made in the islands.
They were cool as a younger man, but yeah, after 35 not so much.
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Scarface and Magnum pi arent 20 year olds
i couldnt fathom rockin them w jeans or pants.
i'm wearing a black aloha shirt with slacks right now
I said I was picking up silk ones, and I do have some silk ones, but what I looked for most was rayon.
I also have nice cotton ones.
i will also be making a joke about anyone wearing one who isn't in the act of being on vacation.
CoSign.
Old white dudes with grey pony-tails are the main perpetrtators of this look where I live.
Damn, 374 shirts in the active rotation. I'd probably lean toward nay but also evaluate shirts and how dudes are rocking them on a case-by-case basis. It's a tough look to pull off, but it can be done.
nay for me
possible yay for others
It's a nice curveball here and there when the weather is just so. But it has to be a killer shirt, no jeans, go with shorts, and sandals are ideal, but the right boat shoes or good canvas joints would work too. The right hat seals the deal, but tread lightly.
Kindly,
parallax
:hi: Raj! ;-)
Fist and foremost it should have a really unique color and pattern:
also... a lot of the vintage hawaiians are made from a textile unique to the islands called barkcloth. they really havent made them from that since the early 80s. i wouldnt take any hawaiian shirt seriously thats not the real deal.
other things that you should look for are collar (a lot of vintage ones have obnoxious collars), sleeve width (slimmer the better), and the straight bottom. (i hate these)
Mahalo nui. In the words of Jeff Da Maori, "ow"