Faces of India – 176 Aloha Shirt, a Fashion Statement as Uniform

Such wildly colorful, enthusiastically printed, shirt attracted my attention. Isn’t his aloha shirt lovely?

When I saw him I knew he was a perfect face for my Faces of India series. I liked the color and the patterns on it very much. He was kind to pose for me. It is his uniform. He wears it to his work everyday. Now can you guess what does he do for a living? What is his profession? I will give the answer in the next part of this series.

Faces of India

a series through which I intend to portray the various characters of my country whom I met during my travels. I bring back souvenirs, frozen moments from my travels, why not some memories of people I have met and interacted during the travels. Faces of India is a weekly series in my blog since MARCH 2011. See more here

Aloha shirt

CR Fashion Book mentions: One source believes the aloha shirt can be traced back to 1926 when a college student created a prototype with his mother’s dressmaker: a button-down collared shirt made out of yukata, the same cloth Japanese women use for work kimonos. It was reportedly an instant hit among his University of Hawaii friends and he brought the design over to the mainland later that year.

In 1936 garment-maker Ellery Chun officially trademarked the term “aloha shirt” and it stuck.

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