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Armed men wearing Hawaiian-print shirts associated with the “boogaloo” movement watch a demonstration near where President Donald Trump had a campaign rally in June. People following the anti ...
SOME CASUAL OBSERVERS of fashion viewed the arrival of the Hawaiian shirt on high-end runways a couple of years ago with surprise. What place did something that for the most part symbolized ...
THE BACKSTORY | When I saw that there was an exhibit on the Aloha shirt at the Washington State History Museum, I did not originally set out to write a story about a piece of clothing that many ...
Is it still Aloha Friday if you don't wear an aloha shirt? Neil Abercrombie — the governor of Hawaii — and a bevy of island designers don't think so. Announcing the somewhat arbitrary "75th ...
The second annual Aloha Shirt Festival and Fashion Week Hawaii will be in full swing in Kailua-Kona beginning Friday. Aloha shirts remain a staple in local life and in the tourism industry.
A Hawaiian shirt is seen fluttering in the wind. The iconic button-downs have been made and widely worn in the islands since the 1930s. That’s particularly true if a garment has religious symbolism.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Twenty-six hundred miles from its birthplace, the story of the aloha shirt is making a colorful splash. The Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma is hosting a ...
Although vintage clothing isn't a usual topic of this column, we just received a mountain of vintage Hawaiian shirts and were at a loss as to what to say about them. As it turns out, Hawaiian ...
David Bader is the perfect person to explain the allure of aloha shirts. Bader, a Tacoma-based aloha shirt collector, sported his first one before he could form complete sentences; his mom bought ...
where The Art of the Aloha Shirt: Keoni of Hawaii, 1938 to 1951 recently opened. Curator Gwen Whiting says these aren’t just any Aloha shirts. “It really focuses on one particular artist ...