Sunday, March 6, 2022

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)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

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

Saturday, October 12, 2019

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.

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

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!

Thursday, January 24, 2019

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!

Friday, December 7, 2018

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!


Tuesday, December 4, 2018

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!



Friday, June 15, 2018

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.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Haters are going to hate, the American Flag story

Aloha, normally we keep our noses out of politics and focused on our clothing brand, but today we are going to make an exception. As many of our customers will attest, Wave Shoppe produces a specialty shirt that is so messed up and ugly looking that it has been officially (and appropriately)  named the ugly Hawaiian shirt

Sample Ugly Shirt
The shirts are in step with patchwork shirts, we lay out 1 layer of each fabric on hand and then cut it up and make "patchwork" Hawaiian shirts from it. The designs and colors we use can be anything from traditional Hawaiian designs to some oddball prints like fabric with Santa or a old car, even the American Flag.

The story behind using flag material goes way back to when we started receiving requests for our service men and women for ugly shirts that contained something patriotic like the flag sewn into the mix. So being supportive of our service members we had no choice but to rise to the occasion and make them. Once word got out amongst the troops we had military contractors calling us wanting to buy Ugly Shirts in bulk. Even a general and his staff at Centcom wanted in on the action.

CJ2

We also got a lot of requests from troops stationed in Afghanistan for shirts with not only the flag, but also cigars. They apparently had makeshift cigar clubs in the middle east and wanted to go all out. Yep, you guessed right, we added cigar material.
Cigar club


So noting the popularity of the flag material with our active military, we began to randomly include flag material during regular production, that way everyone has a small chance at getting flag in their shirt.

So a few weeks ago we sold a couple of Ugly Shirts on our Amazon store and about a week later we received a inquiry about returning the purchase. What bothered us is that the customer said they were returning the shirts not because of a defect, or that they simply didn't like them, but because of the flag material. They stated that they didn't like the American flag, even if it was upside down.

I will be honest, that comment made me angry. Having a grandfather that fled Czechoslovakia to come here to fight in WWI with the US Army, I couldn't believe someone took offence to our flag. I refunded the purchase in its entirety as soon as we received it from the customer, but its a dam shame that some in our society have become lost souls without conviction or patriotism.

As I thought more and more about this I decided that my reaction to all of this is to produce a higher percentage of Ugly Shirts with flag material. And if one day I have the capitol, maybe a ultra patriotic American Flag shirt composed of multiple flag styles/designs. One thing for sure, patriotism will not be a unspoken or forgotten word in our household or business.





Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Top 10 Hawaiian Shirt Websites on Page 10 of Google

 Today we are visiting the murky depths of page 10 of Googles search results, yep that place that rarely gets visited by anyone. So today I did a search of the word Hawaiian shirts to see not only where www.waveshoppe.com was listed, but the less fortunate as well.

Top 10 Hawaiian Shirt Websites on Page 10 of Google are as follows:
  1. https://www.golfdigest.com/story/game-improvement-hawaiian-shir "honestly its a awful website, as soon as the website opens they hit you with a full screen video. When you do make it to the article titled "Game improvement: Hawaiian shirts aren't only for luaus" there is a 1 paragraph blurb on how a Hawaiian shirt can improve your golf game. though I believe lots of practice will serve you better.
  2. https://totalfratmove.com/5-hawaiian-shirts-ensure-you-dominate-this-spring/ Titled "5 Hawaiian Shirts That’ll Ensure You Dominate This Spring" this page is one ginormous ad for a Hawaiian shirt retailer, enough said.
  3. https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiechang/2016/11/27/how-to-incorporate-the-hawaiian-shirt-the-years-most-surprising-fashion-trend-into-your-wardrobe/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/ another garbage website, first visit hammers you with one giant ad. I can easily see why its buried in the back of the internet.
  4. https://postgradproblems.com/embrace-the-hawaiian-shirt/ Titled "Embrace The Hawaiian Shirt" it appears to be a blog post that rambles on about clothing choices and personal hygiene or something.
  5. http://www.kyifi.com/ site belongs to a Hawaiian shirt wholesaler but it super hard to navigate and doesn't look very user friendly.
  6. http://www.whowhatwear.com/hawaiian-shirt-trend The Next Big Trend Is Already Lurking in Your Parents' Closet its one of those BS fashion blogs that wants you to think their models depict what the future of Hawaiian fashion in going to look like. The reality is that its lip service for their advertisers 
  7. http://www.eonline.com/news/781533/diane-kruger-makes-hawaiian-shirts-look-cool-no-really Diane Kruger Makes Hawaiian Shirts Look Cool—No, Really She has odd looking legs
  8. https://www.heddels.com/2015/05/beginners-guide-hawaiian-shirts/  A Beginner’s Guide To Hawaiian Shirts AKA images of washed up Hollywood actors wearing Hawaiian shirts
  9. https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/jun/29/from-elvis-to-balenciaga-five-ways-to-wear-a-hawaiian-shirt From Elvis to Balenciaga: five ways to wear a Hawaiian shirt Yawn... another site like #8 on my list
  10. http://www.bigkahuna.com/ and I end my painful journey with a competitor website, not sure a link will help them any but its the thought that counts, correct?
If you dared to visit even a few of those websites it becomes clear as to why they are way back on page 10. Personally if our company site ever looked like one of those and we couldn't correct the issues, we would seriously consider pulling the plug on it. IMO Hawaiian themed websites should look as fun as the shirts they sell, not laden with popups and ads.


Friday, November 18, 2016

Pink, not the Singer

Pink Hawaiian shirt
Pink Hawaiian shirt
A quick Google of the word Pink brings up Victoria's Secret, as well as Pink, the singer, but nothing about the actual color pink, not even an image.

I know its a odd thing to point out, but remember its us, the shirt makers from space. Rocket science say that this post is going to be about something pink, a new pink Hawaiian shirt to be exact.

The shirt pictured is our latest release and probably the last one for the year 2016 though we will probably work through December on a few re-releases of some of our past designs. One that wont be back in the lineup is the design we called pink waterfalls. While it was a fairly popular design with the ladies, it was a rayon blend and we are no longer offering rayon blends in our line.

Bu the new pink Hawaiian shirt pictured in this post is going to be well received. The shirt is 100% cotton and the allover print is balanced quite well, the Plumeria flowers are not too big and not too small, lending to a design that doesn't have a "focal point" when worn. That's it for now and don't forget that we have a introduced a lot of new women's design over the summer, our complete line of womens Hawaiian shirts are found on our website as well as the new pink shirt on Wave Shoppe Amazon where we sell Wave Shoppe labeled clothing such as shirts and muumuus.


Sunday, October 9, 2016

Zombie Apocalypse Fashion

What will you wear for the upcoming October zombie apocalypse? In a year where everything seems to have go to hell in a handbasket it’s time to prep for the upcoming zombie apocalypse. This Halloween is a good time for a dress rehearsal for things to come.

Sure you can dress up as a bumble bee or a SpongeBob and even a fairy (male or female). We also have more traditional stuff like skeleton and homemade pumpkin outfits.

Lets also mention that tore up looking Hillary Clinton Halloween masks and Donald Trump Halloween masks will also be at the top of many voters lists.

Lastly even looking like elves is quite easily achieved with some green tights and green makeup.

But the cool people will be dressed up as zombies tourists from Hawaii. All it takes are some colorful Hawaiian shirts and a little bit of costume makeup which is readily available from places like Party City or WalMart.

If you don't have a girlfriend to help you, go online to YouTube, they have a lot of video tutorials on how to apply zombie makeup, those videos can really help remove some of the guesswork.

I like the Hawaiian tourist zombie concept because it s bit of a paradox, you have the fun loving, roving Hawaiian tourist that's also a moping groaning zombie! Remember zombies don't need any props, they all wear wearing the very same clothes they had on when they turned, all you have to do is make them look tore up and bloody looking. You know all those bruises and cuts stem from walking into each other and other inanimate objects, correct?


Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Get Funky with Hawaiian Clothing

I started this post with the mindset of posting some cool looking pictures of people, mainly men, looking 'funky' while wearing some cool tropical clothing similar to the Hawaiian shirts we offer on the Wave Shoppe web store. SO I went to Google images and started searching for some appropriate images.

I was a bit taken back by the flood of images that didn't contain anything more than a picture of a lone Hawaiian shirt. And before you say it, I don't consider someone wearing ill fitting clothing with a tropical print as funky. Actually I think many of these people they refer to as "models" are fashion disasters, but that's a post for another day.

4 funky monkeys at a Luau
So as I paged through the shirt images I finally came across something 'funky'. While it wasn't exactly what I was looking for, it was close enough. At least someone was creative enough to dress up their monkey in Hawaiian garb, hence transforming them into funky monkeys. So a tip of my beachcomber hat to the person that dreamed up the funky monkey luau setting.


Diane Kruger
But all is not lost! The ladies save the day with tis picture of Diane Kruger wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt with a simple black skirt.

Diane looks very nice, as well as looking funky. I should mention that while we don't offer this exact print on our website, we do offer a nice selection of womens Hawaiian shirts that are sure to please, as well as add a little funk to your life.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Wear Red on Labor Day

Red Hawaiian Shirt
There are many reasons people wear red on Labor Day, often its to show support for a cause and occasionally to show discontent for something.

But usually its just because it a good time of the year to wear read. I will wear a red Hawaiian shirt on Labor Day because the holiday marks the onset of fall and fall holidays. Dare I say Christmas.

The Red Hawaiian shirt pictured on the left is one of our latest masterpieces. What sets it apart from other red and white Hawaiian shirting is that it contains a more scenic depiction of Hawai'i vs the standard red and white shirt with hibiscus flowers.

This shirt has them too, but we feel the addition of islands, wahine (a Polynesian woman or wife, especially in Hawaii or New Zealand) and outrigger canoes, puts it in a class by itself. And best of all it's made in the USA as are all of Wave Shoppes Hawaiian shirts.


Monday, July 4, 2016

Piles of Colorful, Yet Ugly, Hawaiian Shirts

Pile of ugly Hawaiian shirts
When we say nothing will match on a ugly Hawaiian shirt from Wave Shoppe, we really mean it. Pictured above is a random shot of shirts getting ready for a final round of quality control before packaging.

In this last phase of QC we remove any loose threads that may have been missed by sewing and then we fully button all of the shirts to ensure that all of the buttons are secure, and that the button holes are properly cut. Once that's been completed the ugly Hawaiian shirts get placed in sealed polypropylene packaging, which protects the shirts during storage and shipping.

Our customers love these shirts, some have purchased as many as 3 just for themselves. They are awesome shirts to wear while BBQing and they are often purchased for use as retirement and birthday gifts. Of course if these shirts are a little too extreme for you, have a look at our more traditional line of mens Hawaiian shirts that are made in the USA

These garments are made from a mix of traditional and sometimes whimsical Hawaiian designs and every once in a while a sprinkle of something patriotic, like American flag material. As fabrics are retired we replace them with something new, which is then added to the fabric inventory that we use to make these extra ugly Hawaiian shirts. This way the shirts can evolve naturally, expect overall designs to change by as much as 50% in as little as 6 months.

Mahalo


Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Don Fracisco De Paula Marin Coffee in Hawaii

In 1813 Don Fracisco De Paula Marin, a Spaniard whom eventually became a confidant of Hawaiian King Kamehameha, recorded in his journal a story called "Manin". In that journal he noted that he had planted coffee on the island of Oahu.

Don Fracisco De Paula Marin had many passions and talents, one being he was a horticulturist, planting seedlings left by Spanish ships, unfortunately the first seedlings did not live. As the time passed by, Fracisco De Paula Marin again began diligently and successfully planting coffee in the islands. Then in 1825 royal governor Boki and a group of select local agricultural people brought plants from Brazil, and also successfully planted coffee in the valley of Manoa.

The coffee plants produced beans without any trouble. As the coffee plants kept growing and propagating, it eventually lead to all of the islands of Hawaii being introduced to coffee. As the coffee groves produced more and more delicately flavored brown beans, they also began to usher in a period for small factories to begin commercially processing coffee.

As this industry was further developing, the government successfully made the improvements that benefited the coffee groves, such as sound agricultural research, farming techniques unique to the geographical area. The coffee industry had great amount of support from everyone, to the point that it was prospering the Island.

Coffee in Hawaii was as popular as Hawaiian shirts from Wave Shoppe and macadamia nuts from Mauna Loa. Of course once coffee became a extremely popular as well as valuable commodity, the government soon decided that they needed to tax the daylight out of it.

One of the best known and rarer coffee plants is the Kona coffee plant. The price of this coffee was so high, that this alone made the Kona farmer's pretty famous through out the world. The Kona's brown coffee bean is now often blended outside of Hawaii.

This amazing coffee is been successfully selling in the markets since 1970. Even today Kona coffee is still the best tasting coffee in the islands.


While we do not offer a coffee themed shirt, we do have a beautiful brown coffee colored Hawaiian shirt in a mens cut (pictured above). Consider picking one up for yourself, the shirts are made in the USA and it will grow on you!

Mahalo



Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Distressed Blue Hawaiian Shirts Come to Hawaii

Its hard to believe that it's already May and we're guessing that most of the country should be thawed out by now. With a thaw comes warmth, and everyone is probably starting to engage in more outdoor activities. Since we are in a warm weather area, we get to be outdoors constantly, it's a luau every weekend around here.

Of course not every day is a party, we too have to work, and we work very hard to keep up with our customers demands. Even though I admit that most of the work is coming up with new shirt designs that customers will like. But that not as easy as you think, in Hawaii we have to come up with designs that no one else has made and it has to have uniqueness and a cool factor to it, or people wont buy it. Its not uncommon to have a customer say I like that design, but I already have a shirt similar in design.

Having said that let us introduce us to one of our most recent releases, a Hawaiian shirt that the folks in the cutting shop refer to as the distressed blue Hawaiian shirt. In a nutshell distressed means having simulated marks of age and wear, the trick with this design was to make the shirt look well worn, while still looking brand new.

If you ask me the artist that did this design hit it out of the park. The coloring and balance in the design are perfect, and the distressed effect is quite well done. To take a good look at the distressed effect you will need to visit the company website and use the magnifying feature, which is made available for all products, all you need to do is place your mouse's cursor over any of the product images.

The distressed shirt is highly recommended not just because of the design, but also because it will match up so well with a myriad of pants colors. For most of the Spring and early summer we are going to focused on bringing out new designs for the guys and they can all be found on where else, but in our mens Hawaiian shirt department in the company online store.


Sunday, April 10, 2016

Not Just a Hawaiian Shirt Store

While its true that our business originally started out selling Hawaiian shirts, the years have shaped our company and stores, as well as our product lines, which have evolved to cater not just to individuals, but to families, as well as the needs of the corporate world that often require low cost bulk purchases.

While Hawaiian clothing in itself is a narrow market, we have micro niches in our market for products such as our popular line of larger sized mens Hawaiian clothing, also referred to as luau sizes. This month we re-introduced our mens lava lava clothing with 3 new tribal tattoo designs that do not have any flowers or animals.

Pictured is a grey colored mens lava lava in 100% cotton for maximum comfort. We also offer the traditional design in a blue and a green colorway.

Hot summers are just around the corner and while we have good stock now, we don't expect our hanging inventory of lava lava to last that long.

So that's it for now, our next few post will probably be to herald in some more new mens designs that are coming out of sewing. Some are mild and some are wild, but be rest assured that the new shirts are going to be the same high quality Hawaiian clothing you have come to expect from Wave Shoppe. Mahalo

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Plumeria Hawaiian Lei Flower Plant Shirts

We thought this would be a good time to introduce some new womens Hawaiian shirts in spring designs that are bold and colorful.

Shown first is a beautiful womens blue Hawaiian shirt with yellow plumeria flowers on 100% cotton fabric,

The colors meld well and the airbrushed effect added to the fabric brings in an additional layer of sophistication.


The next womens Hawaiian shirt we made was in the same design, but in a different color.

We chose to make this particular womens Hawaiian shirt in turquoise because of the prized sky blue coloring.

We chose plumeria flowers for this project because plumeria trees are simply beautiful and that the flowers can be transformed into fresh flower leis.

Rare Gray Aloha Shirts