Meaning of aloha shirt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A collared shirt of a type originating in Hawaii, often brilliantly colored with floral or Polynesian patterns.
2. Alternative letter-case form of aloha shirt.
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“At this election booth one of the officials wears the popular, brightly colored "aloha" shirt; the other a feather lei about his hat.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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