Real McCoy's Bou-Ken-Oh Forbidden Planet Robby the Robot Aloha Shirt, Navy Rayon, 1998, Size S
Real McCoy's Bou-Ken-Oh Forbidden Planet Robby the Robot Aloha Shirt, Navy Rayon, 1998, Size S
Condition report
Very Good
- Giftable
- Mint
- Excellent
- Very Good
- Good
- Honest Wear
- As Found
Waikiki, Altair IV
The border-print aloha was made to bring a far shore home. Bou-Ken-Oh simply chose a shore sixteen light years away, and kept every rule of the form.
Best for: Collectors of first-era Real McCoy's and mid-century science fiction
Condition notes
No stains, tears or missing buttons found.
Vintage rayon over 20 years old.
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An aloha shirt from Bou-Ken-Oh, the adventure line of the original Real McCoy's, printed with Robby the Robot striding across an orange alien shore beneath a navy sky. Made in Japan in 1998, in rayon, size S.
The Piece
Forbidden Planet reached cinemas in 1956 and gave science fiction its first robot with a personality. Four decades on, the Kobe maker licensed the film and treated it as Hawaiian shirtmakers of the 1950s treated volcanoes and outriggers: as a border print, engineered so the landscape runs unbroken around the hem while the upper body stays dark.
Robby carries a figure in white across the front panel, with a ringed planet, pale moons and a field of ice-blue crystal behind. The shirt has an open loop collar, a matched chest pocket and coconut-style buttons, and the neck holds the woven Bou-Ken-Oh label with a size S tab.
Details
- Maker: The Real McCoy's, Bou-Ken-Oh line
- Subject: Forbidden Planet, Robby the Robot
- Year: 1998, as printed on the label
- Made in: Japan
- Fabric: 100% rayon
- Colour: Navy with orange and ice blue
- Size: S
- Length: About 62 cm (24.4 in)
- Chest (pit to pit): About 45 cm (17.7 in)
- Shoulder: About 43 cm (16.9 in)
- Sleeve: About 21 cm (8.3 in)
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 cm (0.4 in).
Condition
- A vintage shirt in good order, with no stains, tears or missing buttons found.
- Rayon of this age deserves gentle handling.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (very good) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch; the woven Bou-Ken-Oh label is present and the film licence is printed on the inner tag. Hand launder cold or dry clean, and press on low heat from the reverse.
Delivery from Japan
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Every figure above is taken by hand with the garment laid flat, in centimetres. Lay a shirt or jacket you already love beside them and allow a centimetre or two of margin, the quiet safeguard on a final sale. Our size guide to tops and jackets turns pit-to-pit figures into US, UK, EU and Japanese sizes, and for anything it leaves open the curator team replies within one Tokyo business day.
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