aloha shirts

Luau party attire

Aloha shirts are loose-fitting, short-sleeved, brightly colored shirts featuring tropical prints—palm trees, hibiscus flowers, ocean scenes.

Associated with Hawaii and casual vacation wear, they're also called Hawaiian shirts.

The style suggests relaxed informality: The office lets us wear aloha shirts on Fridays.

They range from genuinely stylish to deliberately garish.

Related
  • leiFlower necklace
  • luauTraditional island celebration
  • tiki barTropical-themed watering hole
  • casualRelaxed and informal
  • printTransfer text to paper

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