This Pullover Aloha Shirt features our Makali'i Print on Navy material with Eggshell and Papaya ink. 

Makaulii 

The rise of Makaliʻi (the Pleiades Constellation) at sunset in Hawaiʻi demarcates the beginning of Makahiki, the Hawaiian New Year and the start of Hoʻoilo, the wet season. During this period, we honor Lono - one of the four major gods - during this period of feasting, peace, and sport games.

This ʻohe kāpala illustrates Makaliʻi. The lines literally connect each star of the Pleiades Constellation. Makauliʻi was selected as the print name, standing for the search for detail, scrutinizing each part to understand the whole.

Makaliʻi Metrics is a locally based and Hawaiian-owned Soil Lab that weaves ancestral knowledge with spectral soil analysis. Employing the technological approach produces soil data for agriculture, forestry and conservation. An evolving understanding of place through ancestral perspective, Makaliʻi Metrics stands for deepening the reciprocal relationship of Aloha ʻĀina.

This exclusive aloha shirt print is available in a button up and a pullover. A portion of each shirt will be donated to Makaliʻi Metrics Soil Lab.

"For Mahiʻai and cultural practitioners, caring for lepo means paying attention to a place. One crop struggles while another thrives. The person stewarding that land notices the differences and begins asking what the land needs. Those questions arise at Makaliʻi Metrics, a soil lab in Mōʻiliʻili where samples are weighed, prepared and analyzed for information about the conditions beneath growing plants. The findings return to growers and land stewards who consider them alongside what they have learned through working the land." 

- Philamer Felicitas

"Weʻre so inspired by is many practitioners and partners that we work with all across Hawaiʻi because people are just going for it anyways."

- Daniel Richardson, soil scientist and CEO of Makaliʻi Metrics 

Pullover Aloha Shirt 

Inspired by the ivy-league shirts of the early 1900s, the fabric designs are pure Hawai‘i, and the look is pleasingly fresh. The Pullover features a half placket and is designed slightly wider to allow over-the-head dressing with ease. Coconut buttons are featured on the stand-up, button-down collar and on the front placket. Tuck it in or leave it out over the trousers for a more casual look. Either way, it's the perfect touch of crisp aloha!

100% Cotton