05-06-2012, 06:46 AM
I was thinking about aloha wear the other day while shopping and watching people shopping in Hilo. Almost no one was wearing aloha wear other than tourists.
From a manufacturing perspective (I used to be in garment design and manufacture), a sleeveless top out of woven fabric requires an armhole facing, a knit top does not-- so it costs less to make a knit top, and using buttons cost more too. Collars even more labor I find a cotton knit sleeveless as comfortable as it comes.
I do think you might have more luck west side than over here.
From a manufacturing perspective (I used to be in garment design and manufacture), a sleeveless top out of woven fabric requires an armhole facing, a knit top does not-- so it costs less to make a knit top, and using buttons cost more too. Collars even more labor I find a cotton knit sleeveless as comfortable as it comes.
I do think you might have more luck west side than over here.