No Shirt Is An Island

April, 1985

Once again, fashion returns to the missionary position. The men who took the fear of God to the wild Hawaiians started by insisting on clothing the natives' nakedness. From basic work shirts, patterns soon developed to mark important times--birth, death, marriage, the tourist season. Now the prints cause a revolution. And with our help, everybody's wearing them.

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