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!

Oahu Medley Shirts

Its Summer, and while customers wear Hawaiian print clothing year round, Summer is the dominant season for Aloha wear. That's also when Wave Shoppe starts releasing new clothing, I should say that this is clothing that we started on months before. To put that in better perspective, we are ordering fabrics this week for products we plan on releasing for the holidays. 

Last month we released the starter line of Hawaiian print Kaftans in which are proving to be very popular with our customers. Now we begun the process of adding new mens Hawaiian shirts to the company website and our 5 star rated Amazon store.

Oahu Medley Hawaiian Shirt

While we only have a few sizes completed, this blue shirt is available now. Our staff decided to name it Oahu Medley, mainly  because the print contains objects and colors that people closely associate with Oahu and the Hawaiian islands in general.

If we were to describe the shirt in more detail we would say that its a pretty straightforward, yet classic design with outrigger  canoes, surfer and longboard and Hawaiian foliage and flowers. 

The outstanding sizes for the Oahu Medley Hawaiian shirt should be added in a couple of weeks, then we move on to more upcoming releases of mens Hawaiian shirts.

Caftans or Kaftans?

Aloha, we hope everyone is having a awesome summer! We have been diligently working on a new womens dress line that will feature plus size kaftans in Hawaiian prints and some basic solids. myself I prefer to refer to them caftans with a "c" but I know of people that prefer to refer to them as kaftans with a "k". 

Authentic Caftan

One would think that finding a definitive answer online would be easy, but its not. I did find a piece from Wikipedia whereas the sentence starts out "A kaftan or caftan" but that is the only mention using a "c". Above the piece is a sentence that says "Caftan" redirects here.". Hmm I said, lets go see what the Caftan page looks like (see authentic Caftan image).

But to be brutally honest, it was not what I expected, nor wanted to see. I recently ran up a bunch of new products with the spelling as "caftans" and I now have a sinking feeling in my chest.

I guess there is no use in crying over spilt milk, I will just have to hunker down and redo all of the Kaftan pages on our website as well as re-do our online Amazon product catalog.

But if there is a ray of sunshine it is that we have just started introducing the Kaftan line and there isn't a big quantity of pages to update.

Authentic Kaftan

The turquoise on black kaftan pictured on the left is one of our new kaftan products in what should be a fairly extensive product line.

While there is a slight amount of shared style such as side slits and pullover style between the 2 garments, the similarity ends there.

One thing that we're going to offer are solid colored kaftans and then at some point offer standard size caftans in prints as well as solids.

But dont hold your breath as it will be quite some time before we get to making kaftans in smaller, standard sizes