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Aloha_shirt
aloha_shirt
aloha shirt
See also: Aloha shirt
English
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Noun
aloha shirt (plural aloha shirts)
- a collared shirt of a type originating in Hawaii, often brilliantly colored with floral or Polynesian patterns[1][2]
- 1996 September, Mott, Patrick, “100% Cotton Prozac”, in Orange Coast, volume 22, number 9, ISSN 0279-0483, page 28:
- No Savile Row suit, no pure silk business ensemble, no costume of any sort, modern or ancient, can possibly beat the traditional aloha shirt for pure form-follows-function glory. Put on a real aloha shirt, with primary colors detonating all over the surface, and you couldn't hang on to a bummer of a mood if your sister was dating Saddam Hussein.
- 1999 December 14, Stinnett, Robert B., Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, New York: The Free Press, ISBN 9780743200370, page 83:
- Emanuel was proud of his image reflected in the glass—tropical blooms covered every inch of his short-sleeved aloha shirt in a busy design of Hawaiian hibiscus, poinsettia, and bougainvillea.
- 2006 Spring, Arthur, Linda B., “The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i”, in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, volume 4, number 1, Berg Publishers, DOI: , pages 8-34:
- The design motifs on the early 1930s aloha shirts were generally Japanese or Chinese and applied to the greige goods by roller printing in Japan.
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Hawaiian shirt
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↑ 1967 Winter, Reinecke, John E.; Tsuzaki, Stanley M., “Hawaiian Loanwords in Hawaiian English of the 1930's”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 6, number 2, ISSN 0029-8115, JSTOR 3622760, pages 80-115:
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↑ 2003 March, Morgado, Marcia A., “From Kitsch to Chic: The Transformation of Hawaiian Shirt Aesthetics”, in Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, volume 21, number 2, DOI: , ISSN 0887-302X, pages 75-88:
- In Hawai'i, the garment is always referred to as an aloha shirt, often spelled with a capital A. The practice may reflect an earlier time when the phrase “Aloha shirt” was protected under copyright. Outside the Islands the garment is commonly know as the Hawaiian shirt.