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Fabrics for Dummies

Well another exciting week has passed and another is about to start. Buying Hawaiian fabrics is a weekly task around here, but just this weekend I concluded that a lot of people couldn’t tell one fabric from another. So that poses an interesting question, just how do you tell what is what?

Our area of expertise is primarily all fabrics Hawaiian, which include cotton, cotton blends, polycotton and rayon fabrics. Cotton is obviously made from Cotton fibers and it’s probably the most popular and comfortable fabric for apparel. Polycotton is pretty popular because of its durability and wide array of designs available on polycotton.

Rayon fabrics are made from natural wood fibers and are probably the most underrated of all the fabrics, I think people confuse them with the polyester shirts back in the days of disco shirts. Shirts made from polyester are not bad, after all they do hold color forever but there is that stigmatism… one that the fabric may never shake off. Remember when bakelite was all the rage?

But if you were holding them in your hand would you really be able to tell what’s what? Believe it or not many of the fabric sellers cant either. So I developed a simple yet reasonably accurate way to tell, you will need a small piece of the fabric and a lighter or similar source of flame.

Take a small piece of fabric in question and light one corner of it, allow it to burn for about a second or two (observe the smoke and color of the flame) and then blow it out. Then take a look at the edge of the fabric where the flame was.

Cotton: Burns without any distortion of fabric, the fire line is very clean and even.

Rayon: Burns much faster and resembles burning paper, the burnt fiber will feel like fine ash.

Polycotton: Somewhat smoky burn, the fabric will curl while burning and the fire line will have a shiny edge to it.

Polyester: Noticeably more smoke than other fabrics and the fire line will look just like melted plastic.

SEO Hawaiian Style

Aloha boys and girls,
I got up this morning thinking I would write about Hawaiian shirts or something like that, but after checking the Google SERPS I changed my mind. As most of you have figured out by now I am a student of Gypsy SEO and I wanted to take a moment to pay homage to my teacher (he did say get a blog and write about whatever you have on your mind that day). See in the early days when I first met Gypsy on line in a forum, he gave me some advice and off I went on what sounded like an endless road to an unknown destination.

The advice was way too simple, basically all about staying on topic (which has evolved to themes). So about a year has passed since our first conversation and I have been a tireless student the whole time. My better half Peggy will tell you that I really do work 7 days a week and that my days are roughly 16 hrs long. It's all about being a geek, how bad do you want it?

Our primary business is manufacturing Hawaiian shirts and though it’s a niche it is quite competitive and obviously the money terms are a real bitch to rank. But I have stuck with it and Dave, owner of Reliable SEO, has continued to mentor me. I won’t say no one else has given me good advice, but Dave shines because he did not discount my sometimes-crazy ideas. Instead he would say something like “its possible” “lets research it more”, “did you see this about that” etc. Then I would really mess with his analytical mind and send him a picture of a new Hawaiian fabric, I think he cringes when faced with the unknown. Ha ha ha wait till he sees the crazy Hawaiian shirt I am making him.

Well back to this morning, I needed to take some pictures of some new products (like the bird of paradise shirts) but I figured that I would do some quick checks of the datacenters to see how our keywords and phrases were doing. In our business ranking “Hawaiian shirts” is like trying to rank “Hawaiian vacations”, good luck they say. Well long story short, we finally moved into the #2 position on the data centers that I queried this morning. Now I realize that this may not be some great accomplishment in the eyes of the veteran SEO people, but it meant a lot to little ole me, and I guess that’s all that matters, doesn’t it.

My next post will certainly be a bit more Hawaiian, but for now I have to get the pictures done (Peggy just told me I need to quit messing around get them done, today!), Mahalo.

Bird of Paradise Shirts

Aloha, today started out like every other day, too much work and not enough time to enjoy the finer things in life.

This morning I went down to the facility that cuts and sews our Hawaiian shirts to pick up a stock order.

But then my day changed for the better. One look at the new new print and I just could not wait to tell everyone about the new Hawaiian print we just completed. Its so hot!

Shirts are made from a fine cotton fabric that I picked up in HI; it’s black with green foliage, small crème yellow orchid flowers and bird of paradise. What I like the most about it is that the bird of paradise is to scale with the real plant. With so many of the fabrics available are not to scale it simply annoys me to no end. I mean how can you produce an authentic Hawaiian print shirt if the design is not proportionate or to scale.

Wave Shoppe is producing these bird of paradise shirts in matching men and women’s styles. It takes a lot of time to sew these shirts but it's always worth the wait. We expect to have the women’s aloha shirt with birds of paradise completed in about a week, but they can be pre ordered and we will ship as soon as they are in our hands.

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Da Kine Hawaiian Shirts

While "Da kine" appears in many contexts and refers to almost anything, it is also frequently associated with something good or genuine - "the best" according to some (as in the name of Duane Chapman's Dog the Bounty Hunter business, Da Kine Bail Bonds). Wave Shoppe Hawaiian shirts are Da kine of Hawaiian shirts you want to get for yourself. They will give you a genuine and unmistakable good feeling.

Mahalo

Wave Shoppe Hawaiian Shirts