Hawaiian dress – Aloha: The Polynesians discovered Hawaii and they brought with them clothes made out of tapa bark from the mulberry plant. To give color to the garments, they dyed them with the help of pigments from plants they found in the surroundings. Beautiful hued bird’s feathers were also used to add color and design to the clothes. Later, traders from Europe and America introduced colored and printed cotton cloth with a few designs in the 1800s. As the years went by, pineapple and sugarcane plantations began to develop in Hawaii. The workers in these plantations wore cotton palaka shirts, which has criss-cross checkered looking patterns with straight cut bottoms. Variations of the color of this print began to grow. In the 1920s and 1930s, when the tourism industry was just starting in Hawaii, a tailor named Ellery Chun put together a shirt with flower prints on a bright colored background, and became the originator of Aloha shirts. The industry of Aloha print in Hawaiian dress was born with increasing designs and colors being turned out. By 1940, Alohawear was a well established industry, and began to grow over the years, with a steady demand. Today, Alohawear is made of a wide range of materials, with cotton being the most popular, followed by silk and synthetics like rayon and polyester. The most popular Aloha print designs in the Hawaiian dress depict Hawaiian scenes and tropical flowers.