Sewing Hawaiian Shirts

Sewing Hawaiian Shirts

Ok its now time to talk about sewing Hawaiian shirts and the crown jewels of our business, the seamstresses.

Sewing is one of the most pampered departments in our company, and for good reason.

Allow us to say that we are blessed to have some of the best seamstresses in the apparel industry.

Elaborating that a good seamstress will sew a Hawaiian shirt like she is going to wear it herself and rarely if ever misses a deadline or makes a mistake that effects the quality of product going to the consumer. All of our employees have a say (and authority) in every phase of construction, especially sewing. If sewing takes issue with the cut product, it’s the end of the road for that batch, no questions asked. That’s just one of the many quality control policies we have in effect.

So how do they assemble and sew a Hawaiian shirt? Believe it or not, it’s a visual that requires a lot of skill and hand eye coordination. Of course an industrial sewing machine helps and not to leave out button machines, 4 thread serger and miscellaneous supplies of the trade.

When the cut Hawaiian shirts get to sewing, the seamstress will dismantle the pack and separate the sections. Then the interfacing is pressed on and sewn and placed back in the rotation. The next step is what separates a fine quality Hawaiian shirt from the imports, that being a shirt pocket that is perfectly matched to the pattern and grain. Matching pockets is nothing short of an art, you can either do it or you can not. With some of the ladies having over 25 years of experience in commercial and niche sewing we assure you that ours are of unparallel quality.

Once the pocked has been matched and sewn into the panel the remaining pieces are then assembled and serged where required. Serging builds in a lot of strength in high stress areas like a sleeve opening etc. The final phase is attaching the buttons. We do not use just any button, we use oversize buttons made from genuine coconut shells. While we have seen everything from wood to plastic buttons on many shirts we think you can not beat the old school look that a coconut button adds to the shirt closure. The final leg of the shirts journey is to pressing and a final stop at quality control where each sewn shirt is inspected and then packaged and labeled.

Ok there you have it, the genesis of Wave Shoppe Hawaiian shirts. I closing we would like to mention that we will always cut and sew our shirts in Hawaii and the USA, our shirts have been inspected by some of the top people in the industry and the high quality of construction is always at the top of the list. We are proud to be an American company.

Below are the 3 posts in this series, feel free to link to the posts for reference:

Hawaiian Shirts, from Conception to the Consumer

Patterns and Cutting Hawaiian Shirts

Sewing Hawaiian Shirts