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Friday, September 22, 2000
Hope will be in the store from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow. The full-color book tells the history of the aloha shirt with hundreds of previously unpublished shirt images, vintage photos and illustrations.
Hope is recognized as an authority on aloha shirts. In 1973, he launched His Royal Highness label, later assuming responsibility for Sun Fashions of Hawaii. In 1986, he purchased the Kahala label, where he serves as art director, overseeing the creation and manufacture of 150 new aloha shirt designs annually.
The guest list for the event reads like a who's who in aloha shirt history, including manufacturers and designers who pioneered the industry in the '40s. Reyn's and Reyn Spooner president Tim McCullough, who provided archival artwork for the book, is among those who will attend.
A limited number of books will be available at the signing, with general distribution through book stores tentatively slated for November.
Earlier this year, Gov. Ben Cayetano proclaimed 2000 as The Year of the Aloha Shirt.
Winning work will be published in Hawaii Pacific Review, HPU's annual literature magazine.
Poems are limited to 100 lines. Entrants may send three poems. The poet's name, address, phone number, email and a five-line biography, and the names of the poems should be on a cover page. Poems should not have the writers' names on them.
Entrants must be residents of Hawaii.
Submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 1. Manuscripts will not be returned.
The award will be presented in late February.
For more information, contact Patrice M. Wilson, by telephone at 544-1107 or by email at pwilson@hpu.edu.
