Nottre Dame Fighting Irish Yoda Hawaiian And Beach Short

“The art of the aloha shirt is just stunning,” Hope says. “It tells a story, unlike a white button-down Oxford. Back then everything was done in paint and by hand and the lifestyle was slower. The artists weren’t inundated with a mass of media influences and technology. As a shirtmaker I find I can’t get artists to convey the same sense of ease. But that’s not surprising.

Nottre Dame Fighting Irish Yoda Hawaiian And Beach Short

Now Hawaii is loaded with hotels and condominiums, too. But back then it was a paradise. You’d arrive by steamer in your wool three-piece suit, be greeted with garlands and end up surfing with the beach boys. Why would you go back to your suit? You got yourself an aloha shirt.” As Duke Kahanamoku puts it in one Hawaiian shirt ad of the early fifties:Hoomanau Nui — take it easy.