Other alohawear—such as the holokū, the mu‘umu‘u, and the holomu’u—predate the Hawaiian shirt, their history recorded as far back as the 1820s with the arrival of American protestant ...

A Hawaiian shirt is seen fluttering in the wind. The iconic button-downs have been made and widely worn in the islands since the 1930s. That’s particularly true if a garment has religious symbolism.