Photograph from Tubes. on Flickr It may be premature to invest in Hawaiian-shirt futures just yet, but if it’s in the Wall Street Journal, chances are it’s official: the once (and still sometimes) kitschy topic of tiki is on the resurgence. Last week, in a piece called "Tiki Doesn’t Have to Be Tacky," Eric Felten tackles what I acknowledged a while back: “The time seems ripe for a Polynesian Pop revival—and, in fact, it's already under way.” But if the tiki renaissance was already in progress, now it has even more reason to blossom. As Felten notes, the original era of tiki style began in 1934, during the Great Depression, and tiki’s heyday was in the 1950s and early...
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