Vintage Aloha Shirts
Published for an exhibition at the Chigasaki City Museum of Art, this catalog features vintage Aloha shirts from the 1930s to the 1950s.
I purchased this catalog when I visited the exhibition in Chigasaki. The shirts featured in the book were selected from the collection of Ryoichi Kobayashi, an Aloha shirt collector and the director of the Japanese Aloha shirt brand SUN SURF.
The catalog offers a closer look at the patterns, fabrics, and craftsmanship of vintage Aloha shirts, and remains one of the books I return to for textile design reference.












