HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Widespread aloha shirt designer Roberta Oaks began her model in 2004. However up till now she had by no means provide you with an aloha shirt that featured a print impressed by a constructing.
“I believe individuals cherished the truth that it was one thing slightly bit completely different,” she mentioned.
It’s completely different as a result of it’s not your typical floral normal shirt. Oaks was impressed by the concrete blocks that give the previous Pali Lanes constructing in Kailua its iconic look.
The concept for the breeze block design got here from Oak’s architect good friend.
“When he first approached me about performing some shirts, it was when there was this large motion behind attempting to avoid wasting the Pali Lanes,” she mentioned.
However the shirt didn’t get off her stitching machine till the pandemic occurred.
“Over COVID with the down time, it was a great time to choose up the mission and do one thing that was enjoyable too,” she mentioned.
She additionally designed one other shirt that copies one other in style breeze block sample seen on a number of buildings round city.
She says new concepts are in every single place.
“When you inform your mind it exists, you begin seeing it in every single place,” she mentioned.
For her, the Pali Lanes mission was private. She was a giant fan of the bowling alley. And breeze block provides one other dimension to her design, and that’s good for enterprise.
“It’s thrilling seeing the model spreading round and other people spreading Aloha far-off as effectively,” she mentioned.
If you wish to get your palms on one in every of her Pali Lanes shirt at RobertaOaks.com or in her Chinatown store, higher transfer quick. They’re almost bought out.
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