12-13-2017, 02:49 AM
You sometimes see male practitioners of Hawaiian culture dressed in the traditional malo or loin cloth but you never see the females in traditional clothing which was a simple skirt with no top. Mrs Mimosa says it's unnecessary puritanism but at the same time forbids any of her ohana from going topless. About twenty years ago I recall a female hula dancer dared to dance topless at the Merry Monarch festival. I think she was trying to start a trend since this is the way hula was done in the old days. Needless to say it didn't catch on. I guess the point I'm trying make is that this shame of going topless taught to them by the missionaries is still here. The irony is that the Hawaiian activists/practitioners seem to have rejected everything the missionaries taught except this.