Is this a Hawaiian print?

[denisebrain]

No label, the cotton dress has cap sleeves, side metal zipper and no lining. There is a shrug to match.

Desperate to make a call on whether it appears to have a Hawaiian ("an Hawaiian?") look or what to call the print.

Mahalo!

 

[thevintagebungalow]

The dress is cute! It definitely has a tourist/travel look to it. My first impression was more Indian (India) than Hawaiian. However I can see a certain hint of a Hawaiian fabric treatment in it. I don't know if I was any help at all....
Carrie

 

[Jonathan]

Its playing up a batik quality -- I don't know if it is real batik or just printed to emulate batik, but that gives it the ethnicky look. I associate batik mostly with African or South Pacific textiles, from Indonesia to southern Japan.

 

[mcgrawandmcqueen]

Maggie
I always refer to these types prints as tiki tribal prints. I then refer to the "ethnic" motif in an attempt to capture all the key search words being used for these type prints.Hope this helps-Lorinda

 

[hatfeathers]

I see an artistic batik print...like what a Tiki would wear if a Tiki wore a shirt.
It's Ba-Tiki! oh, maybe I need to go to bed. That was bad.

 

[denisebrain]

Thank you for your thoughts. It is definitely not a real batik, just a printed cotton.

I think it seems like I should cast the net wide in describing the print! Good to know!

 

[hatfeathers]

I've run across a lot of dresses from this era with a batik inspired print. Seems that the print designers of the era took a lot from art movements and techniques and made them mainstream. Sometimes you get batik or watercolor, sometimes Eams and atomic.