The Quiz: The first Hawaiian shirts were sourced from what garments?
Indian saris
Japanese kimonos
Spanish flamenco dresses
Scottish kilts
While the exact origin of the first “aloha” shirts is unknown, what can be traced is the type of fabric they were made out of. There are many stories of local tailors in Hawaii using material intended for Japanese kimonos to create button-up shirts. The first known newspaper ad for aloha shirts ran in 1935 for a Honolulu tailor known as Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker. These shirts caught on quickly, eventually becoming a symbol of Hawaiian culture.
The correct answer to this quiz is Japanese kimonos.