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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, thus creating the Guayabera style. The Guayaberas name may also have originated from the word yayabero, the word for a person who lived near the Yayabo River in Cuba. It later spread to Latin America where its popularity grew. The Guayabera has four front pockets (two above and two below) and two vertical lines of alforzas (ten vertical pleats that are very closely sewed and pass from above the top pockets down to the bottom of the shirt). The top of each pocket is usually adorned with a button, as are the bottoms of the alforzas. The Cuban Guayabera, unlike the Mexican, also has the alforzas going down the center of the shirt, over the button holes. The back of the Guayabera also follows the same pattern of alforzas. The bottom of the shirt has three-inch slits on each side engaged with a small button. As a straight-bottomed shirt, it is worn outside the trousers. The cuffs may be either one-button or French-cuffed. The white French-cuffed Guayabera worn with a black bowtie, is considered to be equivalent to a tuxedo and can be worn as formal attire. Traditionally worn in white, Guayaberas are now available in many colors and shades. Cuban designers in exile have modified the original style, thus creating Guayaberas for women as well as Guayabera-styled dresses. Guayabera popularity has also spread to many Asian countries, including Thailand and the Philippines, where the use of alforzas has been changed to embroidery. Some Mexican and Panamanian Guayabera makers have adopted this change.
About The Guayabera! We are designers, manufacturers, and suppliers of authentic Guayabera and Havana style shirts. With our on-staff designers at the beginning of the design phase, to our quality control cutting edge manufacturing, to the end importation and logistics delivery directly into your warehouse. Our approach allows us to offer a large selection of unique and original Guayabera clothing, everyday common styles (Yucatan, Cuban), as well as custom detail work to the customers specifications. All done at a higher level of quality with cheaper pricing and flexible business solutions. We are truly the turnkey solution for wholesale Guayaberas and Havana styles for all members of the family and for all occasions. For our supply chain solutions we offer flexibility for smaller business' operational needs, yet we are large enough to fulfill business requirements on a grander scale as well. For startups and small businesses we offer a low minimum quantity of a 200 piece mixed package, and for larger organizations we can produce upwards of 100,000 monthly pieces and beyond. We also provide specialty contract or custom manufacturing to satisfy an entire manufacturing requirement, or a partial to supplement an over quota manufacturing operation. Prices are determined directly by quantities, and specific product or business needs. Please call or email us for a quote and samples.
Our Customers Our goals are simple, to fit the customer's needs not make the customer fit ours. Where we do believe that quality, originality, selection, and pricing are extremely important and have made it our focus, we also understand that without flexible and reliable service our great focus may never be realized by the customer. We understand that just as all customers are different, as are their needs. While it is true and correct to say that we are in business only by them, it is our attitude and service level that proves we are in business only for them. We at The Guayabera believe in this philosophy and wouldn't think of running things any differently. Aptly, our customer's satisfaction is our #1 priority. See our Guarantee.
Our Brands The Martinez Montiel™ brand is a higher end specialty designer line specifically intended for the cultural enthusiast and modeled after the South American, Aztec, and new Cuban style flavors. It is an original and intricately crafted embroidered shirt yet with a taste of history and culture sewn into every stitch. We also offer custom design work relative to our customers specifications for weddings, parties, or corporate events. The Friday Shirts! brand is our more leisure, casual line and is primarily suited for the American, Mexican, and Cuban traditional tastes. We offer a turn-key OEM solution with your brand tags and labeling on the Friday Shirts! lines. Don't have labels or tags? No problem, we can even create your labels and tags for you from a .jpg format that you submit by email. Whether large or small, simple or complex, we here at The Guayabera have a solution for you. We thank-you for browsing our site and look forward to serving you in the future.
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