Nottre Dame Fighting Irish Yoda Hawaiian And Beach Short
Come peace and the late 1940s, Americans were reminded of Al Jolson, John Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks and Ronald Colman — the more avant-garde pre-war movie stars who first made the aloha shirt symbolic of weekend rest and relaxation when snapped wearing them at their beachfront homes. By 1947, employees of Hawaii’s city councils were allowed to wear a Hawaiian shirt to work. Duke Kahanamoku, regarded as the pioneer of surfing and one of Hawaii’s most famous sons, was brought in to promote the Hawaiian shirt. By 1958, its manufacture was the islands’ third biggest industry.
Nottre Dame Fighting Irish Yoda Hawaiian And Beach Short
To the trained eye a shirt can be originated to its source by the style of its print, sometimes right down to the artist who designed it. American, native Hawaiian and Japanese motifs — typically florals and plants, landscapes and the ocean, birds, dragons, tigers and, yes, hula dancing girls — are the leading areas, with the likes of print designer Keiji Kawakami, for instance, responsible for introducing island and surf-related imagery.