So let's focus less on the academics and more on what you want to know about what a Hawaiian shirt—or aloha shirt ... on this iconic shirt. Splashy print? Check. Rich colors that make you ...

NBC / Getty Images This print, likely from the late 1940s or 1950s, is emblematic of "chop suey," a style of aloha shirt design that features a mishmash of Hawaiian imagery, which depicted how ...