Description
Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, this book recounts the colourful stories at the back of these marvelous shirts: as cultural icons, evocative of the mystery and the allure of the islands, capturing the vibe of the watermen culture and way of life casual, relaxed, and fun. Valued by professional collectors and by millions of vacationers and fashionistos, these shirts are enjoying a fashion revival.
Drawing from hundreds of interviews, newspaper and magazine archives, and personal memorabilia, the creator evokes the sector of the designers, seamstresses, manufacturers, and retailers who created the industry and nurtured it from its single-sewing-machine-shop beginnings to an enterprise of international scope and importance and its revival nowadays.
The Aloha Shirt is both a dazzling, fun-to-browse art book, and an interesting chronicle of the sector’s love affair with Hawaii.