Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/25/crazy-cool-vintage-aloha-shirt.html
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Mecca Party!
Interesting Hawaiian Mason history:
“PRINCE LODGE KAMEHAMEHA V, fifth ruler of the Hawaiian kingdom, was the first native
Hawaiian to become a Freemason. On February 27, 1853, he was raised to the Sublime Degree
of Master Mason in Hawaiian Lodge No. 21.”
http://www.hawaiifreemason.org/resources/hawaiian-royalty.pdf
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After a cursory search, it looks like there may have been a National convention in Hawaii in 1953, 1960 and 1967, at the very least.
I can’t narrow down the year of this shirt for sure [though someone noted it was 1954]:
But it looks virtually identical to this Los Angeles variant:
http://rock-a-hula.ocnk.net/product/2737 (sold for 30,240 Yen, or about $270 US)
And here I believe is the shirt from 1953:
http://rock-a-hula.ocnk.net/product/2694 (for sale for 91,800 Yen! or about $822 US)
Just look at all those Shriners, enjoying their Hawaiian shirts!
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I want these shirts so much, but not $400 much.
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Impressive! It’s not often that you see one garment that manages to adorn white men with distorted images of both Polynesian and Islamic culture!
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Oh! A SUBLIME degree.
That’s different.
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What if it included sandals and plaid Bermuda shorts?
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Goodwill may have these for much less $.
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You’d need a classic set of wheels to go with the shirt.
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Fez-O-Rama … for those who need the appropriate additional head garment
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I cannot recommend their products highly enough! I bought a fez with custom vents and skull tassel-fob at GenCon and it’s my favorite headgear. No Freemason membership required.
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Funny. Same here. Got the first tall version of the this Fez.
Missed the special purple David-Bowie-version though. 
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Nice! They only had the short version of the eyeball fez at GenCon, but that’s OK, I like their half-height fezzes. Now that I know about these guys, I just wish I hadn’t missed the discontinued Haku Fez.
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They’re in my fez & stuff bookmark subsubsection.
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Wisdom of crowd, can you find this one? I knew a Greenpeacer 25 years ago who had an aloha shirt with a pattern of mushroom clouds over the Marshall Islands.
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Shriners are still active here. They also have a nice beachfront club house, though not as nice as the local Elks Lodge.
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