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Par-tay! Par-tay!  Honey, where’s my Hawaiian shirt?

The Aloha  or Hawaiian shirt is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawaii during the 1930′s. It is currently the premier textile export of the Hawaii manufacturing industry.

The shirts are printed, mostly with images of the Hawaiian Islands, are short-sleeved, and collared. They usually have buttons, sometimes as a complete button-down shirt, and sometimes just down to the chest (pullover).

Aloha shirts usually have a left chest pocket sewn in to make the printed pattern continuous. Aloha shirts may be worn by men or women; women’s aloha shirts usually have a lower-cut, v-neck style. The lower hem is straight, as the shirts are not meant to be tucked in. A great find would be from Reyn Spooner, created in 1956, which is the only aloha shirt line designed and produced right here in Hawaii, its prints still pulsating with local strength.

thanks to Wikipedia