So let's focus less on the academics and more on what you want to know about what a Hawaiian shirt—or aloha shirt, depending on your preferred terminology—means for your wardrobe this summer.

During the Great Depression, Americans again cast their eyes toward Hawaii, co-opting another piece of Hawaiian culture: the aloha shirt. Though its precise origins are lost to history ...

But then there are the workers who wear more multicolored button-up Hawaiian shirts, usually with some sort of flora motif. More often than not, these are the store leaders, according to Trader ...