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The 13 Best Hawaiian Shirts for Sharing the Aloha in Style
Transportive button-ups from Bode, Kapital, Ralph Lauren and more
Hollywood's unwavering support for the Hawaiian shirt – or the Aloha shirt, if we’re to go by its original name – should be respected. It has long espoused the divisive, striking, holiday-ready layer, reminding audiences that although it isn’t easy to pull off the shirt style, it isn't impossible, either.
The trick, according to style icons of the silver screen, is to commit to dressing it up or down. Pairing a Hawaiian shirt with smart trousers and leather shoes à la Tony Montana (Al Pacino in Scarface) offsets the fierceness of the look, whilst throwing one over a baby tee and rocking it with some boot cut jeans and casual boots à la Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) plays into its tawdry connotations, making for a winning sleaze chic ensemble.
As usual, this season’s collections are rife with Aloha shirts of varying levels of intensity, from the approachable to the ultra out-there. Wallflowers will feel most at ease in the shallow end where lightly decorated iterations offered by Gap and Ralph Lauren exist; live wires, on the other hand, should dive into high-risk territory where punchy takes from the likes of Amiri, Aries and AllSaints prevail.
Of course, there are plenty of knockout Hawaiian shirts available on the second-hand and resale markets, too – Goldsmith Vintage, for example, stocks legions of funky vintage Hawaiian shirts (many of which have a Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet vibe about them), and GOAT is in possession of some knockout archive pieces inspired by the Polynesian archipelago.
We’ve listed the best of the bunch below in hopes that it’ll inspire your final selection. But before you set forth, one final piece of advice: never wear a Hawaiian shirt with jorts. Leave that to the Zante lads.
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