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Kapalua Hawaii Vintage Retro Cotton Jersey Baby Bodysuit - Black Logo

Kapalua Hawaii Vintage Retro Cotton Jersey Baby Bodysuit - Black Logo

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The Kapalua baby bodysuit, for the town that means arms embracing the sea. Soft fine jersey with the Kapalua vintage retro logo on the front in black, newborn to 24 months.

This is the new-baby gift from the hometown: light, soft, with a snap crotch that makes changes easy and a logo the parents will photograph. Order it as soon as the news arrives; it is the Kapalua piece most often bought for someone else.

Light 4.5 oz (153 g/m²) fine jersey keeps this unisex infant bodysuit soft and breathable. Side seams and ribbed binding add durability, and the snap crotch is secure and quick for changes. Solid colors are 100% combed ringspun cotton, while heather shades include a cotton–polyester blend.

Dwight Baldwin settled West Maui in 1836 and his 1853 grant became Honolua Ranch, where David Fleming planted pineapple in the early 1900s and Baldwin Packers shipped it for decades. The resort rose on those plantation lands from the 1970s: the Bay Course in 1975, the first hotel in 1979, the Plantation Course in 1991.

Kapalua Bay’s two points reach out to embrace the sea, Honolua Bay next door is a marine conservation district and a famous surf break, and the Plantation Course opened the PGA Tour season for more than twenty-five years. Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi lie across the channel. Arms embracing the sea is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — KAPALUA HI COTTON JERSEY BABY BODYSUIT

Town: Kapalua, Hawaiʻi

Founded: Honolua Ranch 1853; resort from 1975

Known for: Arms embracing the sea; Kapalua Bay; the old Honolua Ranch pineapple lands; the Plantation Course

Art: Kapalua vintage retro logo, black (printed)

Blank: Unisex infant bodysuit, ribbed binding, side seams, snap crotch

Fabric: 4.5 oz (153 g/m²) fine jersey; solids 100% combed ringspun cotton, heathers cotton–polyester

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How does your sizing work?

Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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Enter the recipient's address as the shipping address and your own as the billing address at checkout. Nothing ships with a price; the package includes a plain packing slip. Tracking goes to your email, not theirs. For birthdays and holidays, order two weeks ahead to be safe.

What's the return policy?

Made-to-order items can't be returned or exchanged for size or color, so please use the size chart and photos before ordering. If anything arrives defective, misprinted or damaged, send a photo and your order number within 30 days and we'll replace it or refund you.

How do I care for my item?

Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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What's with America's best beach? For years, when travel writers and the coastal scientists who rank such things went looking for the finest beach in the United States, they kept landing in the same place: Kapalua Bay, a small crescent of gold sand on the northwest corner of Maui, cradled between two black lava points that reach into the water like a pair of arms. Those points knock down the swell, so the cove stays calm and clear over a living reef — easy swimming and snorkeling in postcard-blue water, with the islands of Molokai and Lanai floating on the horizon. The bay is the reason the name fits: Kapalua means "arms embracing the sea." One look at the cove and you stop wondering why.

The modern story starts in 1836, when Dr. Dwight Baldwin, a missionary doctor, settled on Maui. In 1853 he received a royal grant of about 2,675 acres of the West Maui uplands, and that grant — expanded by later purchases until it reached some 24,000 acres — became Honolua Ranch. For its first decades the ranch ran cattle and raised mixed crops: coffee, taro, mango, aloe. Baldwin's son, Henry Perrine Baldwin, saw bigger possibilities in the rich volcanic soil, and with a Scottish ranch manager named David Thomas Fleming — an avid horticulturist who planted the tall Cook and Norfolk pines that still line Kapalua's roads — he began turning the ranch toward a single, transforming crop.

Why People Visit Kapalua

Visitors come to Kapalua for the bays — the calm, reef-fringed water that earns the best-beach lists — and stay for the layered scenery: a manicured golf coast, plantation uplands, and the channel islands on the horizon. It is quiet, walkable, and built to let West Maui's landscape take the lead. Equal parts beach, history, and big ocean views, Kapalua rewards anyone who wants the Hawaiian coast at its most embracing.

Kapalua Hawaii Merlin Classics retro logo — Hawaiian hibiscus, Hawaiian Kingdom Est. 1795