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Where are you today?
Aloha. This is April M. Williams and today I am in Baileys and Aloha Shirts with David Bailey
and we are going to ask him some questions about aloha shirts
Hi David. Hi.
So, this is an amazing store. There are many aloha shirts here.
About how many do you thinK?
Over fifteen thousand I think at this point
His name was Koichiro Miyamoto
he was a tailor here in the twenties
and he was Japanese obviously
and he mostly made kimono
and he, somebody either asked him to make a shirt
Or he thought up well, I will make a shirt
out of this kimono lining
Are they all new shirts? Ah, about five thousand are new.
We have got vintage shirts, at least five hundred that are more than fifty years old
and that was probably in nineteen twenty nine approximately
and in nineteen thirty two, Ellery Chun who is a Chinese guy
he patented the word Aloha shirt.
You have got specialty shirts such as Reyn Spooners
Tommy Bahamas, Tory Richards, and we have got actually
two thousand shirts that are under ten dollars
Some five thousand that are under twenty dollars
Then things were fairly small time then
until just after World War two when they started flying planes so
that became what is known as the golden age
From say nineteen forty five to nineteen fifty five
Do you have my size shirt
Yeah We have blouses also and some dresses
We have everything from kids shirts to five x shirts 01:59.799,02:05.799 Then it kind of faded to some degree then 02:05.799,02:11.799 Tom Selleck I would say was a major influence in bringing back the whole Aloha shirt thing 02:11.799,02:17.799 This is a shirt, we sold Nicolas Cage this shirt for forty two hundred 02:17.799,02:22.799 and I have we sell exact copies of it right here 02:22.799,02:24.799 Here is Jimmy Buffet's shirt right here 02:24.799,02:26.799 Jimmy Buffet Was that this summer when he was here 02:26.799,02:24.799 No no that was for Halloween. 02:24.799,02:32.799 And he has actually spent over twenty thousand here 02:32.799,02:36.799 and he let me show you a picture of him 02:36.799,02:38.799 when he was on Sixty Minutes or he would preform at Fenway Park 02:38.799,02:45.799 He was wearing our best shirt fifty five hundred dollars 02:45.799,02:48.799 More than half of our business is return customers 02:48.799,02:51.799 We have a website alohashirts dot com 02:51.799,02:55.799 if you go there you can see what get an overview of what the shop has 02:55.799,03:07.799 Tuesdays our manager Jill has a digital camera and she can shoot you some pictures of different shirts that would be 03:03.799,03:12.799 Like if you said I want a black background with pineapples she would show you this shirt and several others 03:12.799,03:14.799 David kawaii shatsu desu ne So desu ne 03:14.799,03:25.799 Where are you today