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http://www.thealohashirt.com/historyA dragon motif is not Hawaiian. Almost everyone in the world would recognize that to be true ... except you evidently. By your logic an "Aloha Shirt" can display a picture of Mao Zedong and still be authentically Hawaiian. So, there is only one of us that needs a clue, and it's not me.
I am not saying that Dragon prints or Ying-Yangs (or Mao Zedong images) are novel or a recent phenomenons. They may have been the seminal shirt. I merely pointed out that the motif is not Hawaiian, and not associated with Hawaiian culture or the Islands generally. It is a motif taken from Chinese/Asian culture probably in order to sell shirts to that market demographic. Most traditional Aloha shirts that pay respect to or, at minimum, allude to Hawaiian culture or the Islands generally would not depict dragons. An honu, yes.http://www.thealohashirt.com/history
https://www.hawaiilife.com/blog/brief-history-of-the-aloha-shirt/
https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/tag/musa-shiya/
The shirt I posted is made by Musa Shiya the Shirtmaker, which according to most sources was among the first to design aloha shirts and use that term in its advertising. The design is a reprint from the 1940s, so such designs have existed from the beginning, created by the people who were there from the beginning.