Bespoke dress shirt for my client
Bespoke dress shirt for my client.
This fine white and lavender blue striped shirt is made of a soft poplin and has a large French collar.
The essential of any wardrobe!
Bespoke dress shirt for my client.
This shirt with large white and blue stripes is made in a soft poplin and with a large French collar.
This is a classic shirt that will brighten up any closet!
At the sources of guayabera, the cuban shirt par excellence
Here is a shirt that evokes Cuba, the Buena Vista Social Club, the swirls of Havana cigars and the daiquiris that Ernest Hemingway drank at the Floridita bar in Old Havana. The famous guayabera worn by Cubans and more generally by Caribbeans and South Americans is ideal in case of hot weather. Light and fresh, it offers a touch of timeless elegance while being an authentic garment!
At the sources of guayabera, the cuban shirt par excellence
Here is a shirt that evokes Cuba, the Buena Vista Social Club, the swirls of Havana cigars and the daiquiris that Ernest Hemingway drank at the Floridita bar in Old Havana. The famous guayabera worn by Cubans and more generally by Caribbeans and South Americans is ideal in case of hot weather. Light and fresh, it offers a touch of timeless elegance while being an authentic garment!
“De Alto Cedro voy para Marcané; Luego a Cueto voy para Mayarí. El cariño que te tengo; Yo no lo puedo negar; Dirty my ass; Yo no lo puedo evitar” sang the formation of octogenarian Cubans in its title Chan Chan, during the release of the album produced by Ry Cooder in 1997, which was a global hit.
This rhythmic, haunting Caribbean music, tinged with a certain nostalgia and the moistness of Cuba, evokes a whole lifestyle where time seems distended and passes more slowly. The stifling heat of the tropics slows down the daily life of the locals who, over a coffee or a “rum” accompanied by a puros, evoke the foodstuffs which are still lacking in the shops of the island, the decisions of the Communist Party , societal changes with the development of mass tourism, etc.
And often, these Cubans (especially the older generations) still wear the famous guayabera, a shirt of uncertain origins but whose roots are undeniably popular. If we do not know for sure if this garment is of Cuban or Filipino origin (two former Spanish colonies), we do know that it was worn by the “campesinos”, the peasants…
The first documents that list this shirt date back to the 19th century. And according to a popular Cuban legend, a farmer once asked his wife to make him a cool and practical shirt, with pockets in which he could put some tools and his tobacco kit… The inhabitants of his village (probably Sancti- Spíritus located near the Yayabo River) were called the yayaberos or guayaberos (from the term guayaba, guava).
Hence the name* of this shirt which would subsequently have become popular among the guarijos (Cuban peasants) as well as among landowners and soldiers during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898) which opposed the Cuban Liberation Army to the forces of the Kingdom of Spain.
A few decades later, the guayabera will be adopted not only by Fidel Castro and the members of his government, but also by Ernest Hemingway, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Orson Welles or even Pablo Picasso.