Rare Gray Aloha Shirts

Check out the coloring and fine detail in this recent addition to our line! 

This is a spectacular looking gray Aloha shirt with whales and dolphins and sea turtles swimming over an extremely colorful coral reef. 

Gray will usually match well with just about any color pants you may have in your closet.

100% Cotton, Made in Hawaii 

Product Link: KY's Gray Ocean Life Shirt (waveshoppe.com)

Ugly Hawaiian Shirt for the Win!

 

Its hard to believe that I have not wrote anything for almost 2 years! Whats even harder to believe is that it wasn't for lack of something to write about, I mean I am literally surrounded by bins with thousands of Hawaiian shirts and enough Hawaiian print material to make your head spin. 

So your probably looking at the shirt in this post and saying "what the hell is that?" well truth be told its one of our most popular shirts. When you manufacture Hawaiian shirts, you lay down layers of the same material, set the patterns and then take a special fabric saw to them.  

But as you can guess these ugly Hawaiian shirts are not made that way (people win ugly Hawaiian shirt contests with these). We simply grab the closest rolls and lay them out without ever giving consideration to them being the same. Then they are bundled up and sent to sewing, and they are assembled without any regard for the prints looking good once sewn together. Irma our seamstress hates the whole idea because she is a perfectionist. Alas I remind her that she gets the same pay and doesn't have to match pockets, her most dreaded task. Irma has been with us for almost 16 years now and is one of the best employees you could ever have. 

I am looking at this long list of tasks to complete before the year ends and wondering if I will even get half of it done. I also need to do some purchasing for next year, as well as finish up some new garments that we are adding to our line. One in particular is a retro print with hula girls etc. Its navy blue and really slick looking. Hopefully its the next shirt I write about. Aloha

Tone Down That Aloha Shirt!

I am an aficionado of loud, tacky looking Aloha shirts, after all making and collecting hot looking shirts is what I do for a living. The louder and brighter and tacky the better I say!

Unfortunately not everyone sees the world as I do. So Wave Shoppe has slowly caved to the pressure and started putting out really muted, toned down Aloha shirts for sale online.

The brown tattoo aloha shirt pictured on the left is the poster child for muted. Its actually printed this way and is in no way a reverse print. For those that dont know what a reverse print shirt is: Its a shirt that is literally sewn with the fabric inside out with the design facing inward).

While some may like that look its a little self defeating to take something colorful and hide it from sight. Fabrics that are actually printed with subtle designs and neutral colors are the way to go. Plus no one will be asking why your wearing your shirt inside out.

This particular Aloha shirt is pretty nice, it contains blues, golds and browns and even has a shirt pocket that is perfectly matched to the shirts design.

A-Frame Hawaiian Dresses

Where oh where has the year gone! It looks like we have been slacking pretty good with our blogging, truth is that we spent a lot of the summer manufacturing inventory and attending clothing shows looking for dresses. Having said that, we finally made a decision on a particular style of A-frame Hawaiian dresses that we would like to add to our inventory.

Quite a few people seem to think that a Hawaiian dress only contains imagery exclusive to Hawaii, but the truth is that many of the garments worn in Hawaii are more tropical in design.

The tank dress pictured is called the Purple Rain Short Tank Dress and this color combination and design can be worn anywhere in the world, not just Hawaii.

We feel that we have a good starter dress inventory that we can build upon as we progress. One goal is to offer this design with 3/4 sleeves, hopefully we will have them made  by Spring of 2020

In the meantime, have a look and both the short, as well as long tank dresses already listed on the website. The dresses are made in the USA from 90% Polyester, 10% Spandex which is soft and stretchy and best of all, wrinkle free!

Mona Loa Hawaii Shirts

Sales wise its always pretty slow around here in the wintertime, but be rest assured that we are working on bringing out new designs for our customers.

Right now we have 2 designs in sewing that are being released a size at a time.

The first colorway is a fiery orange colored Hawaiian shirt named orange mauna loa Hawaiian shirt.

Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii and a very appropriate name for this smoking hot looking Hawaiian shirt.

The fabric was sold as being red in color but its pretty obvious that its orange with splashes of red throughout the repeat.

The material is 100% cotton poplin and they are made in San Diego with the same loving care that all of our shirting receives!

The companion colorway is a subtle blue colored Hawaiian shirt named blue mauna loa Hawaiian shirt, we stuck with the naming convention because the largest volcano on earth isn't always erupting, sometimes its calm and at rest

Once we get these beautiful mens shirts released we will probably move on to some other projects and get some restocking done so were ready for the Spring rush.

Mahalo for all of your support and stay warm!

Tropicals in Oceanside California

Tropical plants bring Aloha to everyone's home and business. Now is a great time to catch up on your tropical landscaping and or interior decorating. Whenever possible we show our support for local, as well as like businesses. Today want to let you know about a company in Oceanside California named Aloha Topicals.

Aloha Tropicals stocks a large variety of tropical and subtropical plants and trees and vines and they will value you as a customer as well as treat you like family. We really like the shear variety of tropical fruit trees they offer. The website also has detailed yet easy to understand cultural directions for your purchases.

Check out Aloha Tropicals today!

Top 5 Hawaii Gifts to Give for Christmas

With Christmas just 3 weeks away its a good time to get in the gift giving mood. Most of our customers have a strong interest in Hawaii so it only make sense for us to give you our top picks for Hawaii themed gifts.

Homes in Hawaii do have fireplaces so lets start out with some ideas for stocking stuffers.

The first item on our list is a magnetic bottle opener with the Hawaiian Islands it. These "Hang Loose" openers are great stocking stuffers and are at home in the kitchen as well as a poolside bar.

You cant go wrong with one of these, the openers are heavy duty and clean easily.

These types of openers are really popular with professional bartenders!

Our next suggestion is give something quintessential to Hawaii, a dashboard doll playing ukulele in which are most often seen swaying around on someone's automobile dashboard.

Though many people also attach them to their golf carts, as well as pontoon boats, etc..

While the are many themes, styles and sizes available, most all dashboard dolls are spring loaded and have a adhesive base

So lets suggest one more idea for stocking stuffer geared towards a man. A brown marble kukui nut lei which never goes out of style and can be worn for any kind of occasion.

Regardless of color or pattern kukui nut leis are a must have mens accessory for a luau.

Adding that kukui nut leis are for men, as flower leis are more often worn by women.

Now we come to what is probably the most gifted item in Hawaii, at least when it comes to Hawaiian themed clothing. You guessed it, Hawaiian shirts for men of which totally eclipse all Hawaii gifts combined.

But we cant possibly tell you what print or color is best to gift, there are way to many cool designs and color combinations to choose from. But if you were going to play it safe you may want to consider a shirt with some of the basic elements.

In example, we suggest a mens shirt with bird of paradise flowers, islands, ocean, palm trees etc. and we chose blue because its a color that matches well with just about any color pants or shorts.

Of next suggestion is for the ladies, its also a tough one because you risk getting in trouble if you purchase the wrong item, size or style. If your dead set on giving womens clothing we wish you luck.

We would suggest that you think back about past trips to Hawaii and try to remember if the little lady wore a dress or a shirt or maybe just lounged around in a muumuu.

Personally we would suggest playing it safe and gifting a cool Hawaii beach bag because you just cant go wrong when you give a gift as useful as a new tote or bag.

Anyway we hope this short list of popular Hawaii gifts helps you and that you and your friends and family have a very merry Christmas!