Master Book of Hawaiian Shirt

If you can read Japanese, then you are in luck. Master Book of Hawaiian Shirt is probably the best and most comprehensive book on vintage Hawaiian shirts that I've come across so far.

This book is a soup-to-nuts assessment of Hawaiian shirt history, design, and manufacturing. You will find photos and text discussing:

• Hawaiian shirt history
• Fabrics
• Buttons
• Labels
• Individual designers (with photos of the designers as well as samples of their shirts)
• Manufacturing
• Prints and print styles
• Collectors

The book delves fairly deep into teach of the topics, so this isn't just a picture book but one that is chock full of real information. The trick is, of course, is that it is all in Japanese.

There is a book called Aloha Style: Master Book of Hawaiian Shirt 2. I don't know if this is a follow-up book or possibly a rebranded version of the original. Either way, this book is worth having.