When the sun’s beating down, the best Hawaiian shirts should feel lightweight and flowy. That said, stick to finding breathable fabrics like cotton, linen, rayon or even silk. These materials ...

and Branfleet — began offering their Hawaiian shirts made with Japanese patterns and fabrics like rayon and silk. These shirts were made to combat Hawaii’s hot, humid conditions — they fit oversized ...

Known in Hawaii as an aloha shirt, the style’s exact origins are hazy, but it likely came on the scene in the 1920s or ’30s, when Japanese women in Hawaii used kimono fabric to make men’s ...

Hawaiian shirts are cool. Yes ... Made with quick-to-dry polyester fabric, it'll keep you sweat-free all season long. Counting down the days until it's hot and sunny enough to wear this every ...

Fittingly, Aloha shirts have Japanese roots. Those who’d left their homeland often brought with them bright kimono fabrics. Meanwhile, Filipino and Chinese newcomers brought barong talongs (a ...

By Kathleen Walsh Sometime when you weren’t looking, the Hawaiian shirt went from “Margaritaville ... for creative patterns and luxe fabrics. But whether haute couture or a hidden gem ...

Some of that fabric was used to make garments ... said David Bailey of Bailey’s Antiques and Aloha Shirts in Honolulu, a well-known emporium that stocks about 15,000 aloha shirts.

The Aloha Gravel Shirt looks like a regular shirt with a traditional shirt collar and buttons. But it’s made with a technical fabric that’s lightweight, breathable, and wicks moisture. For on the bike ...

When he transplanted from California to Hawaii in the 1930s, historians believe Japanese women had just started repurposing kimono fabric into men’s shirts, creating the world’s first aloha ...

Though its precise origins are lost to history, the aloha shirt first appeared in Hawaii in the 1920s or ’30s, probably when local Japanese women adapted kimono fabric for use in men’s shirting.