BEST TROPICAL SPORTSHIRT: KAMEHAMEHA GARMENTS
"When we were ten years old, the Navy moved our family to Waikiki. Before we left, mother made father and the children matching shirts from some seersucker floral material she found. We arrivedin Hawaii and fooled no one. The aloha shirt, after all, was not invented by mainlanders like the great haole Harry Truman, as we believed, but by a real local, Ellery Chun, a Honolulu tailor in the 1920s. For the past 65 years the Kamehameha Garment Company has been turning out authentic aloha shirts in that city and still is." -- Forbes.com, 04.30.01