10/10/2026
🇱🇧⚔️🏝️ Aloha! "Cedar Corps Hawaiian Shirts" are ready to chill 😎
Inspired by Special Forces wearing Hawaiian shirts as a mix of a practical, low-profile/ blending in fieldwear and a cultural inside joke among military personnel in Afghanistan. However the tradition of the Hawaiian shirt in the military started post WWII when U.S. service members returning from tours in the Pacific brought them back home, starting the shirts’ popularity outside Hawaii.
Our shirts, some made in Hawaii, include our logo in Arabic on the chest and the U.S. / Lebanon 🇺🇸 ⚔️ 🇱🇧 partnership flag on the shoulder sleeve. The rest is history.
Sizes XS to XL.
💥 Shirts shooting for 45$
💥 Misprints (no biggie) for 25$
The story:
First traced to the 1920/ 30s, when the Honolulu-based store "Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker", originally a kimono maker, started making shirts out of colorful Japanese printed textiles. The Hawaiian or Aloha shirt (Palaka Aloha in Hawaiian) was born but not as we know it today although it embedded the Hawaiian culture.
After serving 3 years as a fighter pilot in WWII, Alfred Shaheen of Lebanese origin returned from the war to Hawaii to carry on the family business specializing in custom garments made from silks and other formal fabrics. Inspired by the "Aloha Week" he then founded his own company in 1948 and applied a more tropical design, along with higher chic and quality to his garments which he became popular for. The Hawaiian shirt as we know it today was finally born and became popular globally.
"Aloha Friday" or "Casual Friday", a now-common tradition in Hawaii of celebrating the end of the work week by wearing more casual attire on Fridays, initially grew out of an effort to promote Aloha shirts 🌺🍹🌸
