Mark with Clothing label : Alfred Shaheen | #407552

Alfred Shaheen's parents, Mary and George, settled on Oahu in the late 1930s. They brought with them the knowledge and experience of a family history in the garment industry. Alfred Shaheen wanted to expand his family's business to include ready-to-wear aloha shirts and women's fashions; so, in 1948, he started his own company in the Shaheen family home on Kalakaua Avenue with four seamstresses trained by his mother, Mary. The company closed its doors when Shaheen retired in 1988. The Aloha shirt, commonly referred to as a Hawaiian shirt, is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawaii. The Aloha Shirt was first sold at "Musashi-ya Shoten" in Honolulu. "Musashi-ya" was established by Japanese immigrant Chotaro Miyamoto in 1904. This particular clothing label is from a Hawaiian shirt.