A
men's shirt popular in Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast
Asia, the West Indies, and Zimbabwe.
The origin of the name Guayabera
may come from a Cuban legend that tells of a poor countryside seamstress sewing large pockets into her husband's shirts for carrying guava (guayabas) from the field. Guayabera
may also have originated from the word yayabero, the word for a person who lived near the Yayabo River in Cuba.
You can see the exiled Cuban in
Miami, dressed to the nines in his guayabera, sipping rum and
smoking cigars, dreaming of the ousting of Fidel Castro, while enjoying his own version of the American
Dream.