It was also why so many women wore modest ankle-length skirts and why men wore knee-length ones -- the traditional garments called lavalava -- and why tourists weren't supposed to wear shorts and swimsuits anywhere off the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The Samoan lavalava is a wraparound "skirt" worn by Polynesian men and hardly a girlish trend.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And then how they marched up here, every man in a new black lavalava, some forty strong, to decorate the grave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference

"The clothing worn by the men and woman was nothing but the 'lavalava,'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition] Reference