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Posted: 4/13/2021 11:48:58 AM EDT
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"The return of the Hawaiian shirt has been celebrated in the style press, as celebrities including Bill Murray, Rihanna and Sophie Turner have been seen to wear them. But according to Zara Anishanslin, a fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton, people should think twice before wearing the garments. “They are the fashion equivalent of a plantation wedding,” said Anishanslin. “They could be seen as fashionable embodiments of the history of American colonization, imperialism and racism against Hawaii’s indigenous inhabitants. People might want to think twice about whether the look is worth the weight of its associative past.” https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/apr/12/hawaiian-shirts-fashion-trend-expert |
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I don’t wear Hawaiian shirts, I wear island shirts like they do on Guam.
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People should think twice before listening to the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton.
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LOL.
I’ve been collecting resort/lounge wear since I was a teenager. I’ve got modal and silk shirts from the ‘50s. Some people have to dig really deep for the outrage. ETA: Nobody thought Hawkeye Pierce was a racist. |
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Damn it!
The boogboi shit cured me of my desire to get some Hawaiian shirts. Now the Marxist fucks are making me want some again |
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How soon before we have approved haircut styles?
Dear leader we look to you for guidance on how to appropriately cut our hair so as not to offend people of color. |
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Didn't the Hawaiian "natives" actually kill off the real natives? Anyways I like my aloha shirts and that guy can fuck off.
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Quoted: I've been wearing them since the '70's. Plantation, my ass. View Quote Me too. They can kiss my aloha shirt wearing ass. And I've added 2 or 3 since then. Attached File |
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Would it be better if we called them Mexican Wedding shirts?
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I guess the next Hawaiian print shirt I buy will need to be cotton (for that "picked by slaves" feeling).
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it's sad that brave men like Toussaint Louverture die and the whiny people survive
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I don't know how people like this survive a day in the real word .... how do they even have the courage to leave their homes is beyond me !
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Hawaiian shirts are so vulgar. I'll stick to my black and gold-trimmed Fred Perry polo shirts, thanks.
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I buy Jam’s World stuff. Non-authentic and sometimes celebrate motorcycle racing and other important events.
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Quoted: How soon before we have approved haircut styles? Dear leader we look to you for guidance on how to appropriately cut our hair so as not to offend people of color. View Quote There has already been outrage abt white people having braids, cornrows and dreads. That goes back a couple of decades. |
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I have a brand new one that will debut at my daughter's high school graduation in May. It's going to embarrass the shit out of her but that's what I do!
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Quoted: Damn it! The boogboi shit cured me of my desire to get some Hawaiian shirts. Now the Marxist fucks are making me want some again View Quote Simply because it might set someone off. Did run into a guy on one of the sites I was working at who genuinely was into them. He wore them tucked in as his 'business casual' wear and wore a Panama Jack (I think) style hat with them. |
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lol
That argument can basically be made for all of modern civilization in the New World. How DARE Europeans bring racist and imperialist things like roads, and the printing press, and modern medicine, etc. - to the primitive savages of the New World who were perfectly happy murdering and sacrificing and eating each other. Also, as an aside, I believe the original Hawaiian (Aloha) shirt was created by a Japanese tailor in Honolulu. |
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Quoted: lol That argument can basically be made for all of modern civilization in the New World. How DARE Europeans bring racist and imperialist things like roads, and the printing press, and modern medicine, etc. - to the primitive savages of the New World who were perfectly happy murdering and sacrificing and eating each other. Also, as an aside, I believe the original Hawaiian (Aloha) shirt was created by a Japanese tailor in Honolulu. View Quote "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" |
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Alright, that's it.
If I get married, it'll be on a Southern plantation. The gentlemen will all wear aloha shirts, the ladies will all wear cheongsams, and the service staff at the reception will all wear dashikis. The bride and groom's first dance as husband and wife will be to the Mexican Hat dance. I hate when receptions drag on forever, so I'll hire a bunch of Irish to get shitfaced, and start a brawl at the appointed time. Oh yeah, the photographs will be taken by a small crowd of Japanese tourists hired for the occasion. Suck it. |
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Quoted: Alright, that's it. If I get married, it'll be on a Southern plantation. The gentlemen will all wear aloha shirts, the ladies will all wear cheongsams, and the service staff at the reception will all wear dashikis. The bride and groom's first dance as husband and wife will be to the Mexican Hat dance. I hate when receptions drag on forever, so I'll hire a bunch of Irish to get shitfaced, and start a brawl at the appointed time. Oh yeah, the photographs will be taken by a small crowd of Japanese tourists hired for the occasion. Suck it. View Quote |
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Fucking Romans bringing roads and concrete and shit up into Germania... Who the hell do those colonizers think they are?
Makes as much sense as anything else from the perpetually offended crowd. |
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i can't wait til it warms up so i can wear my Shirts of Racist Colonial Oppression again
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Quoted: How soon before we have approved haircut styles? Dear leader we look to you for guidance on how to appropriately cut our hair so as not to offend people of color. View Quote Oh, they've already came out and called my haircut "fascist style". Anything with a fade on a white person is now considered "fascist". https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/11/30/does-this-haircut-make-me-look-like-a-nazi/ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/patriciasuarez/before-it-was-the-fascist-haircut-it-was-so-much-more https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/mens-hipster-undercut-haircut |
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Quoted: Zara Anishanslin, a fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton, View Quote I wonder if Zara is single, and how many cats she has? I'll bet a reasonably intelligent 8th grader could catch any one of these lot of joyless fucks, and in the time it takes for them to go from the parking lot to the faculty lounge, have them in tears, because every stitch of clothing they wear or carry from the ground up, is a symbol of "western imperialism and racism". Rubber-soled shoes? Modern day plantation agriculture, and not ecologically sound (monoculture). Leather? Cruelty to animals. (Ok Vinyl then? Not ecologically sound). Blue jeans? Cultural appropriation of the working class, and further, slave labor. YKK zipper? Do I even have to tell you what's wrong with that, Zara, you dumb bitch? CHECK THE TAGS, FACSIST! DO IT, DO IT NOW! FUCKING BANGLADESH?! THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT YOU HEARTLESS BITCH! YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN A SLAVE TRADER! And so on, until their world crumbles. Then post it on IG until she is forced to wear black plastic trash bags and Viet Cong Goodyear sandals, and give a tearful apology in front of the local unemployment office. It's not her fault, she's just ignorant of her privilege. It's what she'd do for us, were we in a similar position. |
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I love how the left and protected classes can just point at something and label it racist..
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I think I have one or two of these, never worn. This thread might a inspired me to wear one to the office tomorrow.
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Quoted: Alright, that's it. If I get married, it'll be on a Southern plantation. The gentlemen will all wear aloha shirts, the ladies will all wear cheongsams, and the service staff at the reception will all wear dashikis. The bride and groom's first dance as husband and wife will be to the Mexican Hat dance. I hate when receptions drag on forever, so I'll hire a bunch of Irish to get shitfaced, and start a brawl at the appointed time. Oh yeah, the photographs will be taken by a small crowd of Japanese tourists hired for the occasion. Suck it. View Quote Invite me and I will wear wooden shoes and a sombrero....... while eating snacks at the reception with chop sticks |
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Quoted: Alright, that's it. If I get married, it'll be on a Southern plantation. The gentlemen will all wear aloha shirts, the ladies will all wear cheongsams, and the service staff at the reception will all wear dashikis. The bride and groom's first dance as husband and wife will be to the Mexican Hat dance. I hate when receptions drag on forever, so I'll hire a bunch of Irish to get shitfaced, and start a brawl at the appointed time. Oh yeah, the photographs will be taken by a small crowd of Japanese tourists hired for the occasion. Suck it. View Quote You don't have to hire or pay the Irish to do what you ask, just need to invite them and get them liquored up, it's their natural habitat. |
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