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Topic: Hawaiian shirt with NASA theme?
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p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 07-13-2013 05:31 PM
   
I won't bore you with the details, but I need a Hawaiian shirt with a NASA theme, I was recently challenged that I wouldn't find something like that for an event coming up.I've done a lot of searching online and turned up nothing, does anyone know of a vendor who has what I'm looking for? NASA insignia is best, Saturn rockets good as well, but it needs to be space program, not just planets and such. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-13-2013 08:04 PM
Dayna Inc. offered a rocket-print Hawaiian-style shirt in 2012. You might contact them to see if they have any remaining stock. The height of the Space Race with Apollo and other NASA Rockets and Space Craft on 100% cotton with a blue background. The buttons are Pewter style Rockets adding to the whole scheme of this fun shirt! |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 07-14-2013 01:55 AM
I found that early in my search. Nope, none are left.I was really hoping someone might know of a vendor, I would have thought this would be an easy thing to find but turns out it's not at all... |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-14-2013 07:02 AM
Can you squeeze into a medium? This one features Apollo and the shuttle (and even the NASA logo), and the Buy It Now price is reasonable.If the people at the event ask how you found one, you could just casually say that Hawaiian shirts have always been big in the space community, and show this photo from STS-26. This one features rocket launches, astronauts, and a moonscape, but I'm not sure it's historically accurate. |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 596
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 07-14-2013 03:03 PM
I'd think you could find one. I picked up a NASA bowling shirt a few years ago at KSC gift shop. Where I used to work, it was always "Hawaiian Shirt Friday" and I'd wear it sometimes. I'd get "What a geek" comments too. (Not that it's a BAD thing to get those..  )
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GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 07-14-2013 04:32 PM
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Originally posted by Gonzo:
Where I used to work, it was always "Hawaiian Shirt Friday" and I'd wear it sometimes.
Wait, you worked at Initech too?  |
Greggy_D
Member Posts: 977
From: Michigan
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 07-14-2013 06:55 PM
He's busy filling out TPS reports. |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 596
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 07-14-2013 09:21 PM
Actually, I was a US gov't contractor. It wasn't a written rule, but everyone liked doing it. Sorry, the idea was around long before "Office Space". No TPS reports needed... |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 07-15-2013 12:43 AM
Any leads other than what can be found with a simple Google search would be appreciated. I wear a XL, by the way. I don't have a lot of time as I'll need this within a couple of weeks.The guantlet was thrown down and I have a lot of bragging rights at risk here. |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 07-15-2013 02:34 AM
artfire.com have shirts with the planets on in bold colours if that's any use? |
YankeeClipper
Member Posts: 617
From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: Mar 2011
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posted 07-15-2013 07:33 AM
How about this XL Vintage KoKo Island Space Moon Paradise Aloha Shirt available for $32 from Sue & Misty (ShabbyShopGirls) in Dallas-Fort Worth TX.Has a Command Module and Lunar Surface all in a paradise setting! Damn you Alfred Shaheen (populariser of Aloha Hawaiian Shirts in the 1950s) for getting me searching on this! |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-15-2013 08:36 AM
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Originally posted by YankeeClipper:
Has a Command Module and Lunar Surface all in a paradise setting!
The problem is that the Command Module is ON the lunar surface. It looks like the result of a guidance programmer forgetting to carry the 2. 
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YankeeClipper
Member Posts: 617
From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: Mar 2011
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posted 07-15-2013 11:14 AM
The theme of the shirt is a fantasy paradise in space, so I guess the designer had the CM not wanting to return home and thus landing in a fictional lunar sea or ocean and washing ashore?!I truly empathise with the OP - finding a shirt is a lot harder than it seems. And besides I work at Initrode now - I don't get paid enough to think about these things. In fact I still haven't received my paycheck and someone has borrowed my stapler and if I don't get it back I might just burn the building down. It's MY stapler...!! |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 07-20-2013 06:45 PM
If you think you can get into a large T-Shirt? That's the best I can do. |
ZeroG
Member Posts: 27
From: St. Louis, MO., USA
Registered: Apr 2013
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posted 07-20-2013 11:00 PM
Bought that shirt this week and wore it today to honor the Apollo 11 landing. I wear large, but the xlarge was just fine! Its cool, and the vintage 1970 shirt made me feel like I was when Apollo was flying! |
YankeeClipper
Member Posts: 617
From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: Mar 2011
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posted 07-23-2013 01:57 PM
Er, wasn't this thread started by p51 with the express purpose of finding a shirt for p51?I saw that the vintage 70s shirt I had linked had sold within hours of me posting it. I assumed no cS member would cut in ahead of p51 on this, partly out of basic courtesy and partly because he had stated how hard it was to find one. p51 did you find a shirt in the end? |
ZeroG
Member Posts: 27
From: St. Louis, MO., USA
Registered: Apr 2013
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posted 07-23-2013 03:24 PM
Okay, my bad!I profusely apologize to p51 for my carelessness at not reading over the whole subject material, it was a busy week, and I had been looking for a good Hawaiian shirt as well for a long time. I know its a sorry excuse for being stupid! I'm not this type of person, it was an accident. I saw the link to the shirt, liked it, and with there only being one... I've had other occasions of waiting before buying online, and regretting not buying, cause it got snatched up quickly. I'm posting to apologize for being human, and making a mistake. Yes I will be much more careful, I deserve all your fury and anger. If p51 likes the shirt enough, I only wore it once so far and with a t-shirt underneath, could sell back to him. My apologizes again to the entire cS community! |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 07-23-2013 03:50 PM
Nah, it's all good. The capsule on the beach reference doesn't quite live up to the challenge of me finding and wearing a NASA Hawaiian shirt at the event that is coming up.Looks like I'm gonna have to take my lumps on this, I thought I'd find a shirt with this theme easily, it never occurred to me that nobody has any now. So odd, because I have a few other shirts of that style from my Hawaii trips, and I found a WW2 aviation themed one pretty easily to wear to Pearl Harbor. To answer the earlier question, many of these shirts are oversized, and if so, yeah, I could probably fit into a 'relaxed fit' Large instead. I don't have so much a gut as I do wide shoulders. |
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