Over the next several years, the brothers would travel between India and Hawaii ... to buy these shirts. "More and more we are finding out that Watumull has become a synonym for Hawaiian fashions ...

More than 100 years ago, 29-year-old Jhamandas Watumull moved to Hawaii's Honolulu to set up a retail shop for his import ...

Mercifully, a wave of quieter party shirts has hit the market ... vaguely tropical-looking party shirt, a true Hawaiian shirt ...