Hermosa Beach is a sunny Southern California beach town north of Redondo Beach. Hermosa Beach is just 4 square miles, but contains so much typical for Southern California: Hippies, skaters, millionaires, beach volleyballers, drum circles, artists, con artists and B-list celebrities. Hermosa Beach also has one of the best breaks in the Santa Monica Bay and often surfers find the best waves here. Often, the shirt HERMOSA also makes beautiful waves. “Hermosa” means “beautiful” in Spanish: To me, HERMOSA is beautiful when worn north of the skirt REDONDO. HERMOSA can be sewn either as a pullover top or a wrap-around shirt, either with short sleeves or with long original-design trumpet sleeves. A personal favorite of mine is to wear a somewhat shorter short-sleeve HERMOSA over a slightly longer long-sleeve HERMOSA, thereby layering two wavy hems.

Knit fabrics are recommended for the sleeve caps and shirt bodice for the pullover version. The flounces of the shirt and sleeves may be made out of the same knit as the sleeve caps and bodice or from a non-stretching lightweight woven fabric, such as cotton percale, eyelet, batiste, or organza. The wrap-around version of this shirt may be sewn entirely out of non-stretch wovens. Please note, the lighter the material hand, the more the waves will appear. Similarly, the stiffer the shirt is hemmed, for example with bias tape, the better the flounces will form waves.