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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