A Hawaiian Shirt Only a Mother Could Love

About a year ago I was in our Hawaiian shirt store putting away some stock and overheard a customer asking the clerk on how to go about obtaining our fabric scraps. It was about then that my wife came into the store and the clerk asked her and she replied that we usually donated them to a local church, but then said let me ask Charles. While it’s true that we donate fabrics to charities, I have also often thought about other outlets for the fabric so I responded with a loud and sort of proud tone of voice “I am going to turn all of the fabric scraps into Hawaiian shirts”. At first there was silence and then they all started laughing, little did they know that I was serious. I mean why not, I am often asked by customers to recommend our loudest and often most hideous looking Hawaiian shirt.

That’s also the sort of question that's hard to answer, especially when you pride yourself on offering nice looking Aloha shirts. So my thought and subjective consciousness was to mix up and cut all of the different colored fabric and designs that we had laying around in the shop. Then I was going to have sewing put them together to make what most would consider to be the world’s ugliest Hawaiian shirts and everyone agrees that statement would be an complete understatement. But just imagine the look on someone’s face when they opened a gift and pulled out a shirt that didn’t have any of the shirt 12 pieces that matched. The shock, the horror, the sheer amazement. I think the moment would be totally priceless to say the least.

 

So we started making some of the most popular sizes in limited quantities and tossed them onto the Wave Shoppe Hawaiian shirts website and in our showroom.

 

What myself and everyone else didn’t realize was that some purchasers actually planned on wearing them! Yes, not only are there people that are willing to wear them, we now have a waiting list for people that have requested ugly shirts in a size we didn’t yet offer.

 

The very first shirt sold also happened to be the one we used for the picture in the product page. Here is a picture of the purchaser Alän Lieffring wearing his original ugly Hawaiian shirt.

 

Don't forget that Father's Day Sunday, June 16 2013 and we are certain he would like a Aloha shirt from Wave Shoppe Hawaiian Shirts which are made in the USA

Edit: First off we want to thank everyone for the flood of orders in the past few months. We also wanted to say that we were caught off guard by all of the people that purchased the ugly shirts, not so much that they purchased them, but because they are wearing them. They are sending us pictures as proof, all we can say is hats off those that have the kahunas to do so.