Famous Men in Tacky Hawaiian Aloha Shirts

When it comes to wearing tacky Hawaiian shirts it's a mans world, few things bring out the Aloha in a man than a brightly colored button up shirt with big bold colors and tropical flowers representing the Hawaiian islands.

Throughout the years countless numbers of people have visited Oahu, the big island of Hawaii, Maui, Lanai etc. and the male visitors have always had one common thread (pardon the pun) with that being they all wore colorful often tacky Hawaiian shirts.

Whats tacky you say? For starters how about a mens Hawaiian shirt with beer bottles or even something really sick looking like the official ugly Hawaiian shirt from Wave Shoppe.

Be it a tropics loving man from Nebraska or famous people like the Tom Selleck and Will Pharrell, just about everyone has worn one at least once.

Being a guy myself I still can not tell you what it is about these shirts that I find so attractive.

In a lot of foreign countries the women associate flowery shirts on men as an indicator that they are gay, though I assure you that flowery shirts are a very poor indicator of your sexuality.

In my opinion the real reason men wear these styles of shirts is that they work a lot of hours with little time to just kick back and relax.

Wearing shirts with tropical flowers and palm trees etc. often has a Zen like effect that creates a direct connection between the man and the Hawaiian islands

Labor Day Clothing Recommendation

Labor Day 2014 is Monday, September 1st and while its the largest BBQ holiday on the planet, its also a good time to bust out your favorite Hawaiian shirt.

I don't want to get into writing about whether or not to wear white after Labor Day, because white is in a lot of the designs people wear year round.

So I think I will just skip all of that and jump right into what I am wearing for Labor Day. And without further ado I am going to wear a Tapa Hawaiian shirt with khaki shorts and my trademark flip flops.

I chose this color combination for a few reasons, the first one being that I simply love brown!

The second reason is that the pattern in this particular shirt exemplifies the spirit of Polynesia and Tonga.

This shirts design contains an authentic tapa design with traditional Tongan geometric patterns, Tongan warriors, canoe paddles, and of course sea turtles, you have to have sea turtles! If you don't know by now I own Wave Shoppe Hawaiian Shirts in San Diego, and we have one of the largest inventories of Hawaiian shirts in the county.

Now if brown is not your thing, we offer a lot of other cool looking mens Hawaiian shirts online and if you are one that needs to try on your clothes before purchasing, you can hop into your car and head to our showroom, where you can purchase the very same shirts we offer online. We also offer some items in our downtown clothing store that you wont find on the online store such as hula dashboard dolls, leis, tiki mugs and more.

Mysteries of Spring Fashion, Solved in Seconds

With spring upon us men are yet again faced with that age old question on what shirts to wear in the spring.

Myself, I enjoy wearing mens Hawaiian shirts from a company called Wave Shoppe, largely due to them being loose fitting and that the colorful shirts they offer have short sleeves that look good on my longer than normal arms. Fit is important to me, I like my Hawaiian shirt short-sleeves to fall about one inch up from the crook of my elbow. Wave Shoppe Hawaiian shirts are cut with good proportions, and if your sleeves are much shorter (or longer) than what they offer online or in-store, you're getting into fashion territory that you may not want to tread in.

When wearing a collared dress shirt under a sweater; you always want to make sure that the collar is in and not out. But never, ever, wear a sweater over a Hawaiian shirt; if you’re cold don a light jacket or something.

And now we come to a point whereas we have to discuss long sleeve shirts with Hawaiian prints. In my opinion this is a fashion mistake, Hawaiian Aloha shirts have never been long sleeve, only the piecemealed long sleeve shirts worn by early plantation workers in Hawaii had actual long sleeves.

The workers long sleeved shirts were most often referred to as Palaka shirts (the prints often resembled a checkerboard) and had long sleeves to protect the workers during long periods spent working in the full sun.

So stay away from the often trumpeted "latest fashion" trends like long sleeves or pullover shirts look polo shirts etc. Do so and you wont look like a complete dufus.

Of course after years of almost collecting the brightly colored tropical themed shirts, I often find myself thinking about recycling. Ha not my shirts but recycling all of the empty cans lying around the house!

Whenever I buy a new garment from Wave Shoppe Hawaiian shirt, I never get rid of one to make room for another one. The one-in, one-out policy that applies to apply to a lot menswear does not (and never should) apply to tropical Hawaiian shirts and similar types of spring and summer clothing.

 

 

Men in Their Hawaiian Aloha Shirts

Me and my wife cruise up and down the coast and check out those sporting around in their Hawaiian shirts on a regular basis.

We do this in part because we are always keeping an eye out for a design idea to add to our line of Hawaiian shirts for men which in part is challenging because we don’t make the standard designs that you see at the hundreds of other retailers selling Hawaiian apparel.

We figure that if you are man enough to wear a colorful Hawaiian aloha shirt then the gloves are off when it comes to boldness. Bring on the Aloha bruddah!

Featured today is a Hawaiian shirt with pineapples and what makes this shirt stand out (aside from eye popping color) is that the detail in the pineapple is incredible, it looks like you could almost eat it. We see a lot of Hawaiian shirts with designs that look nothing like the real flower or fruit so this one is refreshing to say the least.

We look everywhere, the boardwalks, on highway 101 the quaint shops that speckle the coastal shopping areas, the beaches, and even the roadside racks that carry a few name brands that are seemingly on sale every day of the year.