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The family ran four stores that catered to tourists, selling aloha shirts and muumuus along with leis that Vierra’s husband, Mike Vierra, would make from plumeria blossoms he picked in their yard.

Ms. Lake, who has publicly discussed her struggles with hair loss, had a gray pixie cut and was wearing an orange tie-dye muumuu.

“Like, the urine smell, the woman in the muumuu, the stray cats.”

“I am challenging the call-out culture,” Professor Ross said from her home in Atlanta, where she was lecturing on Zoom to students on a recent evening, in a blue muumuu from Ghana.

These are big, baggy dresses we would once have called muumuus or kaftans or even beach cover-ups.