Hawaii

By: Marlee Lake and Destiny Phillips

Traditional Hawaiian wedding dress

Hawaiian fabric

• Traditional skirts is made out of banana tree leaves.• Kapa Cloth is also known as “bark cloth” and is what

they use for most clothing.• Feathered attire is feathered capes cloaks and

headdresses worn by Hawaiian nobility and royalty.• Before the white Christian ministries came Hawaiian

women did not cover their breasts, but afterwards they they were more modest and got more forms of dresses. They began wearing mu’umu’u which is similar to a night gown.

School clothing in Hawaii

• In Hawaii some students are required to wear a white shirt and black shorts.

Colors meanings!

• Red means fire!• Yellow means love!• Green means away evil!

Flower meaning!

• Ohia the fire flower• Pikake is what they wear for weddings• Ilima is the symbol means love• Hibiscus means women relationship status

( that meant they were taken)

They wear leis with these flowers to show different meanings.