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Lanai Hawaii Retro Vintage Washed Cap - Charcoal Logo

Lanai Hawaii Retro Vintage Washed Cap - Charcoal Logo

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This is our retro Lanai, Hawaii logo, printed in weathered charcoal on a retro vintage washed cap — an unstructured cotton dad hat that looks broken in from the day it arrives. The charcoal carries a faint wavering tone and a light speckle, so the print reads like it has been in the sun as long as the cap has.

One size fits most, so it is an easy gift to get right: no size to guess, only the town. Each cap is made to order. Hand wash cold and air dry, and keep it out of the dryer.

Lānaʻi, the smallest publicly accessible inhabited Hawaiian island, had an ancient village at Kaunolū, a Mormon colony and cattle ranching in the 1850s and a brief try at sugar at Keōmoku. In 1922 James Dole bought most of the island for $1.1 million, laid out Lānaʻi City around Cook-pine-shaded Dole Park, and built the largest pineapple plantation on Earth.

The plantation cottages and the 1923 Hotel Lanai still stand, Kaumalapaʻu Harbor shipped the fruit, pineapple ended around 1992, and the red-rock badlands of Keahiakawelo and the calm preserve of Hulopoʻe Bay bracket the island. The world’s quietest island is the mark on this piece.

The cap is 8.5 oz 100% cotton twill, enzyme washed and heavily brushed for a soft hand, with an unstructured six-panel crown, a mid-profile fit and a curved bill. A self-fabric strapback with a metal slider adjusts the fit and tucks away, and a self-fabric sweatband lines the inside. It is garment dyed with OEKO-TEX certified low-impact dyes, so every cap's color varies slightly — washed here means faded color and a weathered print, not distressed or frayed.


QUICK FACTS — LĀNAʻI HI WASHED COTTON CAP — CHARCOAL LOGO

Town: Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi

Founded: Lānaʻi City 1922

Known for: The Pineapple Isle; James Dole’s 1922 plantation town around Dole Park; the 1923 Hotel Lanai; Hulopoʻe Bay

Art: Lānaʻi vintage retro logo, charcoal (printed)

Blank: unstructured six-panel cap, mid profile, curved bill, metal slider

Fabric: 8.5 oz 100% cotton twill, enzyme washed, garment dyed

Care: hand wash cold, air dry

Colors: 10 offered

Sizes: Adjustable

Made to order in the USA



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Product FAQs

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.

How do I send a gift?

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.

More From Lānaʻi Hawaiʻi

All Lānaʻi Hawaiʻi Items

Our Lānaʻi logo carries the Hawaiian hibiscus over "Hawaiian Kingdom · Est. 1795," the shared emblem of every Merlin Classics Hawaiʻi place, marking the 1795 unification of the islands under Kamehameha. Printed in clean retro black-and-white like an old crate label, the hibiscus stands for the islands as a whole; what makes this one Lānaʻi is everything around it — the golden pineapple past and the old Lānaʻi City storefronts, the Cook-pine ridge, and the red rock of the Garden of the Gods.

That crop was pineapple. In 1922 James Dole, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company man already known as the Pineapple King, bought most of Lānaʻi for about $1.1 million — a price many thought a fool's bargain for a dry, rocky island. He was right and they were wrong: Dole planted some twenty thousand acres of the red uplands in pineapple and turned Lānaʻi into the largest pineapple plantation on Earth, a single island that by the 1930s grew roughly three-quarters of the world's supply. For seventy years this was the Pineapple Isle, and the spiky fruit made "Hawaiʻi" and "pineapple" mean nearly the same thing.

Why People Visit Lānaʻi

Lānaʻi offers the rarest thing in Hawaiʻi: an island that still feels empty. It pairs a deep heritage — ancient fishing villages, a storied red-rock landscape, and the golden plantation past — with near-solitary beaches, pine-shaded uplands, and a single small town. It is quiet, scenic, and unhurried, made for travelers who want an island to themselves.

Lānaʻi Hawaiʻi Merlin Classics retro vintage logo — Hawaiian hibiscus, Hawaiian Kingdom Est. 1795