# Hawaiian shirts... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784 "2001-08-17T18:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/1 "2001-08-17T18:59:33Z")
I just wanted to say that I think Hawaiian shirts are the greatest fashion inovation ever. I currently own six, and just this week ordered another two online, and I plan to buy more, and more! Ha ha! I shall soon own all of them! My only complaint, though, is that some of the really nice ones are expensive, si I generally stick to the ones under $40.00. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/2 "2001-08-17T19:02:51Z")
Where do you order them from? I keep meaning to see if Hilo Hattie has a web site. I agree with you entirely, they are so comfortable. Only problem is that they look great in a tropical climate, not so great in New England. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/3 "2001-08-17T19:06:17Z")
I only know one man from Hawaii, who’s visiting here (New England) for a few months. On the first night I met him, he was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and I wondered if the stereotype was true or if he was wearing it to be ironic. Turns out that he wears them all the time, only he calls the Aloha shirts. Homer once said that the only guys who wear Hawaiian shirts are gay guys and big fat party animals. I wore one to a goth club once to be funny but nobody thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/4 "2001-08-17T19:06:18Z")
You will never be able to own them all, because I keep several in my closet for Jimmy Buffett concerts. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/5 "2001-08-17T19:07:06Z")
Go to google, and then go through the catagories until you get to clothing\>men’s\>shirts, or something similar to that. And what do you mean they don’t look great in New England, where do you think I live? (well, seven monthes of the year I’m in New York, but close enough, same climate.) Granted, I generally don’t wear a lot of them in the winter monthes, but still, there’s three other monthes of warm enough weather. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/6 "2001-08-17T19:10:32Z")
Hah! I knew they would have a [web site](http://www.hilohattie.com/category.asp?categoryID=1010101). Last time I was out there I stocked up at the outlet. ---
**Author:** ![Briminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@Briminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briminator)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/7 "2001-08-17T19:11:56Z")
I’m wearing one of my hawaiian right now, I don’t care what people think when I wear them, they are funny as hell and very comfy. Last time I brought 3 of them in a store the guy who rang me up told me in a very sarcastic tone “oh these are very fashionable” I just wanted to punch the dude. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/8 "2001-08-17T19:16:01Z")
Yay! I buy my husband a Hawaiian Shirt for Christmas every year, and IMHO, $40.00 is a steal. I order them from a place IN Hawaii that I of course can’t remember right now, and they have the real bamboo buttons and all that. $65.00 I LOVE guys in Hawaiian shirts. I think they’re a blast. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/9 "2001-08-17T19:17:53Z")
Damn you, pcubed, I just ordered another shirt! A nice one two, it’s green with white pinapples on it, and it’s silk! Good price, too. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/10 "2001-08-17T19:20:30Z")
No problem. Nice shirt by the way, and only $24.99 too! One of the things I love is that some of these shirts go up to size **5XL**. Holy crap! ---
**Author:** ![demanton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@demanton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/demanton)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/11 "2001-08-17T19:30:31Z")
I can’t believe that no one has mentioned [Reyn Spooner](http://www.reyns.com/cgi/showitem.pl?ProductId=6&template=../reyns.htm) yet. I had always heard that they claimed to be the original “Aloha Shirt”. With those prices ($65 and up), one would hope that they are authentic… ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/12 "2001-08-17T19:59:20Z")
There’s also [http://www.hotshirts.com/](http://www.hotshirts.com/) If you ever go to Hawaii, then hit Sears. They’ve got everybody beat in alohawear, even Hilo Hattie. Muumuus and shirts galore, and tons on sale for $20.00. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/13 "2001-08-17T20:56:52Z")
I’m wairing a rather ugly one right now, I try to see how ugly and cheep I can get them. It’s fun. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/14 "2001-08-17T21:05:27Z")
I discovered this summer how comfy they are in warm weather. (Duh, Podkayne, they’re from _Hawaii_). Now I steal my husband’s and wear them constantly. I know they’re fashionable for guys, and not so fashionable on chicks, but I don’t care. We’ve got some cute low-key ones, but the MIL sent us one when she vacationed in Hawaii that’s full-on authentic: navy blue with tons of vivid green palm fronds and gaudy red parrots! I wear it with teeny-tiny cutoffs to get that whole Magnum PI vibe. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/15 "2001-08-17T21:40:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Podkayne \* > **I discovered this summer how comfy they are in warm weather. (Duh, Podkayne, they’re from _Hawaii_). Now I steal my husband’s and wear them constantly. I know they’re fashionable for guys, and not so fashionable on chicks, but I don’t care.** I think chicks in Hawaiian shirts look cute. (as such, I also think that they look cute in Aloha dresses, I think they’re called (you know, the dresses with the same patterns as the shirts.)) ---
**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/16 "2001-08-17T22:53:10Z")
I remember hearing somewhere that a Rayon factory burned down, which for some odd reason prevents us from having the highest quality hawaiian shirts ever again. Not sure why this would be so. Probably a 50’s thing. Betcha Ebay has some Pre-Rayon-Factory-Fire-Shirts at exorbitant prices. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/17 "2001-08-17T23:06:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pcubed \* > \*\*One of the things I love is that some of these shirts go up to size **5XL**. Holy crap! \*\* Heh. They have to. Have you ever _seen_ a Hawaiian? 🙂 And, **bouv** , I think you’re talking about muumuus (there’re supposed to be apostrophes in there somewhere), though I’m probably wrong, as I’m sure there are hawaiian dress types that I’m not familiar with. Oh, and to add on to what **don Jaime** said, if you’re ever in HI, also hit Liberty House. A little pricier than Sears (I mean, who isn’t?), but they have some really nice ones for decent prices. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/18 "2001-08-17T23:15:13Z")
I went to hawaii & I noticed the flowers there are about the same as the ones on the shirts. Well, some store closing gave our thrift shop there supply of $29.95 shirts which we priced for $7.00 & it doesn’t look like anyone wants them. they aren’t the bright blue ones nor do they have hawaiian labels but let me check. they do look pretty hawaiian. There must be various patterns? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/19 "2001-08-17T23:22:47Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by KKBattousai \* > \*\* > And, **bouv** , I think you’re talking about muumuus (there’re supposed to be apostrophes in there somewhere), though I’m probably wrong, as I’m sure there are hawaiian dress types that I’m not familiar with._\* No, not muumuus, [these](http://www.pupule.com/html/shop.php3/productID=16) are what I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784/20 "2001-08-17T23:39:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don Jaime \* > **If you ever go to Hawaii, then hit Sears. They’ve got everybody beat in alohawear, even Hilo Hattie. Muumuus and shirts galore, and tons on sale for $20.00.** You know, my very first Aloha shirt was from the Sears at the Ala Moana mall (I think that’s where it is). You’re right, they did have some decent ones. Of course all my other souvenir shopping was done at the Woolworths on Kalakaua. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KKBattousai \* > \*\*Heh. They have to. Have you ever seen a Hawaiian? > \*\* No comment. Allright, a little comment. There’s this marketplace in downtown Waikiki between Kalakaua and Kuhio. In front of one of the permanent buildings are two statues, supposedly representing ‘typical’ Hawaiins. The female is this bodacious hula girl, and the guy is this 5XL type with a googly look on his face. The locals can’t enjoy that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-shirts/76784.md?page=2)