Tom Holland in Floral 4 Times

Tom Holland is coming in a very close second to Harry Styles in terms of seemingly being able to pull off even the most questionable sartorial choices, but Holland’s take on the Magnum PI era Tom Selleck’s preferred choice of top, the classic floral, is instigating a different sort of private investigation.

The Floral is a derivative of what’s called the Aloha shirt, also referred to as a Hawaiian shirt.

It’s a style of dress shirt that originated in Hawaii. They are collared and buttoned dress shirts, usually short-sleeved and cut from printed fabric. They are often worn untucked, but can be worn tucked in as well.

They are not only casual wear, but serve as informal business attire in Hawaii.

“Aloha Friday”, a now-common tradition of celebrating the end of the workweek by wearing more casual attire on Fridays, initially grew out of an effort to promote Aloha shirts.

The origin of Aloha shirts can be traced to the the early 1930s, when the Honolulu-based dry goods store “Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker” under the proprietorship of Kōichirō Miyamoto, started making shirts out of colorful Japanese prints.

It has also been contended that the Aloha shirt was devised in the early 1930s by Chinese merchant Ellery Chun of “King-Smith Clothiers and Dry Goods”, a store in Waikiki. Although this claim has been described as a myth reinforced by repeated telling, Chun may have been the first to mass-produce or to maintain the ready-to-wear in stock to be sold off the shelf.

Either way, Holland rocks it like no one else.