Hawaiian shirts : height of fashion or offence agains the eyeballs?

Fysh

Just got to thinking about this recently, since I own a hawaiian-style shirt that I'm quite fond of (on the basis that it is comfortable, matches a few things I own, and unlike many such shirts, does not assault one's eyes like a laser beam). Now, these are divisive garments, so in time honoured fashion I am consulting the oracle that is the boards populace. What do you lot think?

Jim

I have a hawaiian shirt. Used to get a little bit of stick in school over it, but I didn't really care.

Still love it, must wear it more.

BEAT

I have 4 awesome button down shirts! I love them...I wear a tank under neath and leave it open...they are comfy and cool
some of them are bad but if you have a bit of taste you can find a nice one and pull it off

Karl Hungus

I like the idea of wearing something so clichéd out of sheer spite for so-called fashion sense. It's great!

Do I have to bring up Tom Selleck circa Magnum PI again?
Ultimate style my friends!

simu

Yes, they're the best things ever. With 80's style sunglasses!

You should wear that shirt *all* the time!

Karl Hungus

Hey simu... what about the shirt I was wearing at the beers? Teh style or nay!?

simu

Don't know if it counts as Hawaian because it looks a bit tye-dyey but yes, up with that sort of thing!

Karl Hungus

No no, it's definetly not Hawaian, but it's definetly very loud in colour. T'was the full print of Iron Maiden's album "Fear Of The Dark" is what it was.

As seen here:



Teh sheer cheese!

simu

Cool!

Karl Hungus

Now all I need is a mustache and x-works jeans.

simu

Hmmm



:eek:

Karl Hungus

Ok, that would just look absolutely retarded. Forget I said anything.

simu

Well, I suppose fashion is like a sandwich - it's good to have a bit of cheese but you need meat and tomatoes and other stuff as well.

Karl Hungus

You're right, I'd neet a mullet for that tor work!

azezil

Visual diarrhea, i find them offensive BURN EM ALL >_<

Fysh

Karl Hungus wrote:

I like the idea of wearing something so clichéd out of sheer spite for so-called fashion sense. It's great!

Do I have to bring up Tom Selleck circa Magnum PI again?
Ultimate style my friends!

You know, this post made me miss rep, because my instinctive reaction after laughing out loud for a couple of minutes was "hmm, +karma time..aww.:("

Still, glad to see I'm not the only one who thought tom selleck was the sex in that show. And yay verily, more of that shirt! Pseudo-hawaiian + Iron Maiden = teh win!

impr0v

I'm with the Japanese on this one.

simu

Fysh wrote:

Still, glad to see I'm not the only one who thought tom selleck was the sex in that show.

:eek:

Cactus Col

Only two kinds of guys wear Hawaian shirts.

Fysh

Cactus Col wrote:

Only two kinds of guys wear Hawaian shirts.

and they are....?

Let me guess : Manly Men and Uber-Manly Men*? (Clearly I'm one of the latter)

Note : Uber-Manly Men are the opposite of Girly-Men

Karl Hungus

Hey Fysh, I like your shirt. It makes you look like a homosexual.
Hey, maybe you are ALL homosexuals!?

gaui3d0pnbz86o

excellent use of simpsons quotes!!

Executive Steve

i am a hawaiin shirt junky, i have twentyodd different ones, varying from a vintage 1960's californian one [with the original buttons!] to a variety of seriously epilepsy inducing dayglo manga inspired ones and graffiti based designs.... you cant put on an insanely loud shirt and skulk in a corner all night, you stand out and generally provide a riot of colour... theyre not for everyone but i adore mine.

for the record, i am not gay nor am i a big fat party animal.

hawaiin shirt plus a wife beater vest, baggy trousers plenty of chunky fake gold jewellry [i'm still desperately trying to keep the whole ironic bling thing on the fashion radar, thank god goldie lookin chain are bringin it back after it seemed i was doomed to be last seasons cliche for a few more minutes...]

Geranium

Eh, obviously they are the deadliest shirts around. (see fight club)

Chick

offence against the eyeballs!!... unless youre actually hawaiian and got that whole cute blonde surf guy look, you cant pull it off. simple as.

Geranium

Chick wrote:

offence against the eyeballs!!... unless youre actually hawaiian and got that whole cute blonde surf guy look, you cant pull it off. simple as.

I doubt that anyone from Hawai would have a cute blonde surfer look. Unless maybe they were a tourist.

Chick

lol yeah i know, but you know the look I mean :rolleyes:

Geranium

Sure do. Small dark and lives at the bottom of a volcano in Americas 50th state....:)

Chick

Lol ha ha

mentalimplosion

they work if you'e benicio del toro. otherwise, leave them. please.

Chick

who's that....?

the_syco

Fysh wrote:

Just got to thinking about this recently, since I own a hawaiian-style shirt that I'm quite fond of (on the basis that it is comfortable, matches a few things I own, and unlike many such shirts, does not assault one's eyes like a laser beam). Now, these are divisive garments, so in time honoured fashion I am consulting the oracle that is the boards populace. What do you lot think?

Its winter. Its cold and dull otutside. The fashion police will hate you for it.

I'd say: GO FOR IT!

If your comfortable in it, wear it. Just remember: next time you see a goth dressed in black, during the sunnist day in summer, you can't say nowt, for you wore a hawaiian-style shirt during winter

John

You could look really cool like these folk:

Chick

the baby can pull it off so cute!

Cactus Col

Fysh wrote:

and they are....?

Let me guess : Manly Men and Uber-Manly Men*? (Clearly I'm one of the latter)

Note : Uber-Manly Men are the opposite of Girly-Men

Apparently they're Gay Guys and Big Fat Party Animals.

Chick

Lol nicely put

Fysh

John2 wrote:

You could look really cool like these folk:

Cue a bunch of photos of langers wearing dodgy hawaiian shirts, apart from the two guys singing who actually looked ok. Well, maybe not ok, but their shirts were fine, at least.

Well, yes. But, on the other hand, I give you:



What more need I say? He is THE Uber-Manly Man, clearly...

Chick

Phwoar... what a stud(!)

Geranium

I agree. He's so dreamy. I wish he would take me to the Prom....Sigh.

Stark

Where's Monica from Friends to come and snog the face off him

Anyway, from Farscape:



That was a scary image :eek:

The_B_Man

i was a t a hawaiian themed party recently and im sorry to say not a single person made the shirts look good(except me of course , grass skirts werent so bad hehe). i even brought a spare shirt which i changed into before we hit the club.

offence to the eyeballs.

simu

Al Pacino's Tony Montana wears one at the start of Scarface and he looks pretty damn good in it - couldn't find any pics, though.

Fysh

After much searching (well, ok, some searching, but hey, I'm a child of the digital age and I want everything now! I...err...anyway, nevermind), I found this:



(Clearly now all we need is some cheap joke about how any nasty comments about that shirt will result in a visit from Tony's "Li'l frien'"....oh, wait)

simu

Wow - I gave up googling after seeing too many images of hot man-on-man love.

Ignoring the dripping blood, Al looks pretty good in that picture and Hawaiian shirts can look very good once the wearer is in good shape.