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Lanai Hawaii Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Logo

Lanai Hawaii Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Logo

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The Lānaʻi tank, for the island that is the Pineapple Isle. Lightweight Airlume cotton jersey with the Lānaʻi vintage retro logo on the chest in black, for the hottest months of the year.

The tank is the summer Lānaʻi piece: light enough for the trail, the boat and the porch, cut in a retail unisex fit that runs true to size. Order it before the warm weather does the deciding for you.

Lightweight Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton jersey in a retail fit that runs true to size for adults. Side-seam construction and self-fabric binding keep the shape, and the label is tear-away. Solid colors are 100% cotton, while select heather/prism shades may include cotton–poly or cotton–poly–rayon blends.

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.


QUICK FACTS — LĀNAʻI HI COTTON JERSEY TANK

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, black (printed)

Blank: Unisex jersey tank, retail fit, side-seamed, self-fabric binding

Fabric: Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton; solids 100% cotton, heather/prism shades blended

Label: Tear-away

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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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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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.

What the plantation left behind is its own kind of beauty. Around the town and along the high spine of the island stand thousands of Cook pines, planted by the New Zealand naturalist and ranch manager George Munro to comb moisture from the fog and feed the island's springs. His name lives on in the Munro Trail, the narrow ridge road that climbs through the pines to Lānaʻihale, at 3,370 feet the island's high point, with the neighbor islands laid out in every direction. From there the land falls away to the red badlands of Keahiakawelo and the empty roads that make Lānaʻi feel like the island the world forgot.

Today Lānaʻi is the quiet island: one small town, no traffic lights, two secluded resorts set against a back country of red dirt and empty roads. Bought almost whole by Larry Ellison in 2012, it is being remade around sustainability and tourism, but its character is older and slower than that — the smallest publicly accessible inhabited Hawaiian island, keeping its end-of-the-world calm. Our Lānaʻi designs gather that into wearable form. Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi — the Pineapple Isle, where the world's quietest island keeps its golden past.

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