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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2012-04-06 09:37 pm
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Things I've Just Learned About:

http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/alfred.shaheen.fabric.to.fashion

Alfred Shaheen - ok, so he didn't actually *invent* the Hawaiian shirt (they'd been around since the 1930s) but he popularized them, by starting his own textile-printing operation, inventing his own printing techniques and designing fabrics inspired by native Hawaiian textiles and Asian art.

The fact that Elvis wore his shirts didn't hurt either.

[identity profile] donald hutton (from livejournal.com) 2012-04-07 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of like the Scotch "inventing" plaid tartan stuff to sell to the tourists.