Pareu

Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal The Sarong Skirt: Pair a pareu with a chunky knit top The Sarong Skirt Layer an acid-color pareu under a chunky knit top with opaque tights and a funky sandal. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Set to a soundtrack of pounding tribal drums, Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez's spring show was a veritable luau of pareu skirts, hibiscus blooms and tiki imagery. ❋ Unknown (2012)

With a flower behind her ear and wearing a pareu, Puamana left for the Kahala with Sparky Lemmo. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It made me more attentive to Buddy, who had tucked his towel together like a pareu and was entering his house, followed by the pretty girl. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Following them, her gaze was intercepted by the sight of Sam standing alone up in the enclosed bridge, his huge shoulders blocking out any view of the overhead instruments, pareu rippling in the slight breeze, eyes straight ahead. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)

The structure was a smooth, slick curve of solid muscle that arced back to vanish beneath the almost hidden waistband of the pareu. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)

The next instant there stepped out of the opening a tall, shock-haired young man, naked, except for some tatters of an undershirt and a piece of old canvas wound about his hips after the fashion of a South Sea _pareu_. ❋ Barrett Willoughby (N/A)

A second stoutly maintained our earthly origin, and attributed our paleness to the influence of some strange sickness; while a third, being of a sceptical and suspicious turn of mind, suddenly seized Barton by the wrist and spitting upon the skirt of her pareu, commenced scrubbing his hand with great vigour, to see whether the colours were fast. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)

I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Red Chicken, in a scarlet pareu fastened tightly about his loins, stood at the prow when we had reached his favorite spot off a point of land, while I, with a paddle, 10 noiselessly kept the canoe as stationary as possible. ❋ Unknown (1923)

All were garlanded with gold and crimson and orange flowers, while each wore about the hips a scarlet pareu. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Beneath it they wore a _pareu_, which passed twice around the waist and hung to the calves of the legs. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

I was met by a stalwart and handsome savage, in earrings and necklace and scarlet _pareu_, who rubbed my nose with his and smelled me ceremoniously, welcoming me as an honored guest. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Nevertheless, as I smoked at ease in my _pareu_ upon the _paepae_ of my simple hosts I felt some misgivings rise in me. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

When at home he wore only a _pareu_, but he would put on trousers when he went out. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Garbed in brilliant yellow _pareu_, he bore on his shoulders an immense _kooka_, or basket of cocoanut fiber, filled with quite two hundred pounds of breadfruit. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

It was a far flight for fancy to take, from my _paepae_ in the jungle at the foot of Temetiu, but looking at the beauty and grace of Malicious Gossip as she sat on my mats in her crimson _pareu_, I liked to think that it was so. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

The chief had hung his trousers over the railing, and was in his _pareu_, his pictured legs showing, while the others lay naked on my mats. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

I made a tourniquet of a strip of my _pareu_ and, with a small harpoon, twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)