This short-sleeved aloha shirt by Kilohana is a collage of postcards images of 1940s Honolulu. There’s a surfer doing a handstand on his board while surfing the friendly waves of Waikīkī and the statue of King Kamehameha in front of Ali‘iolani Hale, home to the Hawai‘i State Supreme Court, in downtown Honolulu. There are images of workers harvesting sugar cane in the fields in Central O‘ahu, Waikīkī beach boys shoving off in an outrigger canoe, and a lei-decked woman playing an ‘ukulele against a coconut tree. There’s even a snapshot of the neon “Crossroads of the Pacific” sign that was up in the 1940s at the Kau Kau Korner drive-in restaurant in Waikīkī that pointed the ways to cities around the globe. It’s a stroll down memory lane — on an aloha shirt.
