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PearlCityBoy
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 07/10/2009 : 09:19:01 AM
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| In high school, our guidance counselor told us to wear an aloha shirt tucked in for job or college interviews. The inside-out kine aloha shirts were more formal in those days. Also, to wear long pants (no shorts), a belt, and shoes (no slippahs). For real. |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2009 : 10:21:07 AM
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[quote]Originally posted by salmonella
"go aheads". Yikes. What a memory.
We only wore them late summer-midday when the black top was too hot to cross in bare feet without burning the skin off on our way to the beach (Redondo/Hermosa/Manhattan and later Huntington). Not all of the intersections had white painted crosswalks to use as low temperature bridges to cross, otherwise we could have made it without the extra foot protection.
I wonder if "go aheads" came from "white front" department store?
Dave
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Yikes - White Front Stores -memories of LA in the 50's & 60's. Like TJMaxx today but sold aplliances as well. In my sufer days (1959-72) we wore aloha shirts, cutoffs or "surfer baggies" T-shirts and what were called "Jap Flaps", with velvet thongs, tatami on top and white rubbah under. Tht's why y'all usually see me wd da shirt unbuttoned wid a T undah! btw, I love Iolani shirts, but rayon can be a problem when the humidity rises.
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2009 : 10:22:23 AM
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| oops - it's suRfer, nevah was Sufi or whatevah sufer means. |
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salmonella
Lokahi
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Bing
Lokahi
USA
100 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2009 : 05:21:46 AM
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If I remember correctly, "go-aheads" were named that way because if you tried to walk backwards they would come off.
Also, back in 55-57 when I was a surfer in the Coast Guard on Sand Island, if we would walk around Waikiki in a white t-shirt, levis and go-aheads we would get hassled by the HASP'S (Hawaiian armed service police). They said we were wearing undershirts, work pants and shower shoes. I guess it was the short hair that gave us away. Fun days though and lots of really good surf.
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noeau
Ha`aha`a
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2009 : 07:47:16 AM
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| I used to wear Reyn's inside out print in high school then it became aloha Friday uniform for lawyers and bankers so now I no wea dat kine shirt or anyting from Reyn's. Kahala is good. Hilo Hatties is for Halloween costume if you like ack like one tourist wit camera hanging around da neck. This is nuts but I like the subtle designs of Tommy Bahama and there is a brand that makes silk shirts emulating the old style silkies that I am partial to can't think of the name right now. But the locals wea Tshirt or tank top with what we might call dress shorts and new looking kine rubbah slippah. Thas da formal wea. If gotta wea shoes insai one restaurant we no go go unless we really have to. Comfort is da key. And most of the patchers here are not tourists but visitors that is a big difference. |
No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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Pua Kai
Ha`aha`a
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2009 : 04:55:51 AM
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It seems to me that folks in Hawai'i wear aloha shirts for the same occasions that we do, and normal clothes for normal activities. After all, many needed IRONING.
Also, when first introduced here in SoCal, go aheads were called zoris which was the Japanese import name. Yup - - early '50s, Mom didn't like them... only to go to the beach. Rubbah Slippahs - - because the english in Hawai'i came from the missionaries from New England so the carry-over on not pronouncing Rs which is still prominent in pidjin today.
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Retro
Ahonui
USA
2368 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2009 : 12:12:51 PM
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Originally posted by noeau
If gotta wea shoes insai one restaurant we no go go unless we really have to.
Those who know this man, however, know that he has excellent taste in shoes. |
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
1055 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2009 : 12:50:15 PM
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Are the shirt police listening in here? Some of us might get arrested.
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"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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salmonella
Lokahi
240 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2009 : 1:39:16 PM
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My memory is a little faulty on this but I thought Zoris were the same thing that Keaka describes above with the velvet straps, tatami top and rubber soles. Go aheads were all rubber 'rubbah slippahs'. Also called 'thongs' before that term got used for something that was not standard issue in the 50's and 60's. (I made a mistake not too long ago and referred to the nice "thongs" that someone was wearing and really had to back up and try to explain. It never did sound quite right to someone who never heard of footwear being called that).
As long as this has morped into 'slippahs'. Anybody remember the ones that were made out of hunks of recycled automobile tires? I think they were called "treds" as a play on words on "keds" which were popular then also. |
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sandman
Lokahi
USA
181 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2009 : 4:12:19 PM
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Regarding treds, I used to buy them when I was surfing in Mexico for 50 cents a pair and sell them off my feet in Newport Beach for five dollars. Nothing, not even money, stands in the way of style , eh?
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Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2009 : 06:07:49 AM
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Salmonella asked me to post this picture ova heah. It think because it is one handsome picture of three handsome kanes in their aloha shirts and slippahs.
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Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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noeau
Ha`aha`a
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2009 : 4:33:03 PM
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| Now das one real kine Hawaiian group notting match. Shorts black, white and grey da shirts get any kine design. Only da beards look good. E das jus like da oddah guys! |
No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2009 : 08:26:42 AM
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Originally posted by noeau
Now das one real kine Hawaiian group notting match. Shorts black, white and grey da shirts get any kine design. Only da beards look good. E das jus like da oddah guys!
Eh! dey wearing variforms (not uniforms)! |
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