There’s a dearth of news, or should I say there’s a dearth of news that I want to write about: the interesting news is relevated to the morning Hili post. But since it’s June 1, which marks for me the Day to Begin Wearing Hawaiian shirts, I present my garb for today. I have about 50 Hawaiian shirts, acquired when I went through an aloha-shirt phase, but I wear them only in appropriat weather. This one is semi-authentic, as it’s not old but has coconut buttons and a pocket matched with the shirt’s pattern—two features of an authentic Hawaiian shirt. (The real old ones from decades ago are made of rayon, not cotton. I got it from a now-defunct outfit that had gorgeous Hawaiian shirts: “Paradise on a Hanger” (great name). Sadly, it is not longer in business, but i have enough shirts.
This one has a lovely green-and-orange fish pattern. I wish that mainland Americans would take up this habit, for you see them all over the islands of Hawaii, especially on “aloha Fridays.” It counts as “business casual” garb, too. You can hardly be unhappy when all around you are colorful shirts.
And Matthew sent this short YouTube video about a new puggle (the name for a baby platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus) from ZoosVictoria, which really does seem to be interested in conservation. Note that the incubation for the egg is just ten days, but it’s four months until it emerges from the den. It’s okay to hold females, but remember that males have poison spurs on their hind legs, which can inflict a painful and slow-healing wound.
Sharing your Hawaiian shirt lore with local aficionados on the coast of Texas. Hoping to inspire postings of stellar example like your own.
I love your shirt — and I don’t really like orange, so that’s a statement.
I love Hawaiian shirts, and I always wear them and near-Hawaiian shirts to work (as in button-down shirts that are especially decorative, but more evocative of parties or bar-hopping). It is very cheering in the depths of winter, I can tell you.
Same reasons I used to wear them to work! Well done!
Nice! I love Hawaiian shirts but have never thought to get one (or some). Call it a lack of imagination.
My oldest shirts are from 1978. Both were t-shirts both purchased at the Buffalo Museum of Science by a friend of mine and fellow student. One depicts the trilobite Greenops boothi, and the other the mammal-like reptile Dimetrodon. My friend gave the Greenops t-shirt to me at the time. He gave the other to my professor and academic advisor, a vertebrate paleontologist. When my professor died—we were close friends for the rest of his life—his widow gave me the Dimetrodon. I wear them rarely so they don’t wear out prematurely. Prematurely? They’re almost 50 years old!
I will always regret not buying the Ray Troll Tiktalik t-shirt when it was available.
I, too, love Hawaiian shirts, though I don’t wear them much anymore, now that I’m retired. Jeans and a Hawaiian shirt were my standard work outfit.
Now, mostly tie-dyed t-shirts. And shorts. We had a mild winter in Washington state and I only wore long pants twice over the winter! 😉
I had the great fortune to see two platypusses playing in a small creek in southern New South Wales in 1991.
Love your Hawaiian shirts: I picked up the habit myself some years ago on a biz trip to Honolulu.
Yours are short sleeved though (which is the default).
D.A.
NYC
I’ve worn Hawaiian shirts, style type shirts for as long as I can remember. Comfortable, casual, cool, and my son also likes wearing them. He, in his younger days got mine (the ones he liked) as I updated and he being a surfer helped…
All the other comments are about the shirts, but I’ll send one about the video of the puggle, which I absolutely love. That has cheered me up quite a bit.
Also loved it. Have rarely seen anything about platypuses, let alone a Mom and Baby playing together. So sweet!