The proper name for them is stated in the article's title.
Ideology seems to be increasingly creeping into conversations here (not pointed at you, just saying in general).
Indeed it is:
Ethnicity: noun, plural eth·nic·i·ties.
- an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
- ethnic traits, background, allegiance, or association
> Hawaiian is used in specific contexts in Hawaii and using it to describe a specific type of shirt is not one of them.
Is it not unique (in origin) to Hawaiian culture?
> It has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with accuracy and respect for a group of people.
That you think this has anything to do with "respect" is precisely the problem I'm talking about. It's a style of shirt. Even if I didn't like the style, how in god's name does one interpret this as "not respecting" Hawaiians as a group?
So that makes a case for naming them differently.
Hawaiian shirt is a crude marketing term that's only used outside of the original audience of the item.
I'm an Iowan, and I don't need you to tell me what something I grew up with actually is. Not to come off as rude.
The Hawaiian/Aloha shirt is a knockoff of a European design.
>So maybe give those of the originating culture the benefit of the doubt.
The originating culture was European. The Hawaiians "culturally appropriated" the European shirt design and made something new and awesome from it, so awesome that it then became popular outside the islands.
That's how it works.
But it'd be like if you grew up buying "Mexican hats" from Walmart. It's a sombrero - they have other hats in Mexico, including hats they came up with, so your terminology is bad even if it's been working for you.