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Cuban Dress in Havana
Dress Code - Clothing Shops

What do you wear in Havana?

The standard Cuban Dress Code is casual, cotton and linen clothing is ideal. Lightweight clothing is recommended in Havana. In December and January a pull-over or a jacket can be useful for the evenings. Note that topless sunbathing is not allowed in Cuba, only on the private hotel beaches are exceptions tolerated for the tourists.

What Do Cubans Wear?
Havana Street Dress and Caribbean Clothing

The Cubans wear Latin American style clothes. The Cuban women and girls dress is sexy, femine and colorful, Cuban women wear short skirts or tight jeans and a blouse or a Cuban T-shirt named a "pull-over" in Cuban Slang. Cuban men wear jeans or cotton pants and a T-shirt or a Guayabera, sometimes also written Guayavera, this is a loose men's shirt a popular Latin clothing in the Caribbean. The original Guayabera is also known as the " Mexican Wedding Shirt".

Cuban man in Guayabery - Clothing in Havana

Cuban Man in Traditional Cuban Clothing in Old Havana
Guayabera and black trousers

Nightlife Dress Code in Havana.

In most restaurants shorts or beach wear is not allowed. In some better nightclubs and Disco's you may be refused entrance when wearing shorts, sandals or sloppy clothing.

Traditional Cuban Dress
Havana Life and Cuban Costumes

Schoolchildren in Cuba wear a uniform and in some Public Services and hotel shops the employees wear a uniform too. The traditional Cuban dress has many Spanish infuences and is nowadays only a tourist attraction shown in the touristical areas of Old Havana.
schoolchildren in Cuba Traditional Cuban Clothing
Schoolchildren in Havana
Traditional Cuban Clothing

Traditional Dress in Havana Cuba Clothing shop Havana Cuba
Cuban Shirts Guayabera in Clothing Shop Havana
Cuban Clothing Old man in Havana

Traditional Dress in Cuba  Traditional Attire Cuba at 15th Birthday
Traditional Wedding dress in Cuba
Traditional Cuban Dress at
15th Birthday

Traditional Dress in Cuba  Traditional Attire  Cuba
Traditional dress in Cuba
Clothing Shop Traditional Dress Havana


Cuban Fashion and Cuban Models

Fashion shows and Cuban elegance are shown at the catwalk in the luxury Hotel Nacional de Cuba near the Havana Malecon. The collections of the famous Italian designer Rocco Barroco were shown by Cuban and International Fashion models.

Fashion shows in Havana Miramar

Cuban fashion shows are presented at the luxury La Maison. At night you can visit the fashion shows given by Cuban models in the open air restaurant. Admission fee 10 CUC.

woman with cigar and traditional clothing Old Havana Beneton shop Plaza de la catedral Old Havana
Old woman with cigar
Traditional Cuban attire
Beneton shop Plaza de la Catedral Old Havana

Havana Fashion

Cuban fashion shop Carlos Terecero Shopping mall

Cuban fashion shop at Carlos Tercero Shopping Mall Havana

Boutique Plaza Veija  Havana Cuba

Boutique Plaza Veija
Fashion shop in Old Havana

Cuban Clothing Paul and Shark shop Havana Cuba

Cuban Fashion
Paul and Shark clothing shop - Plaza Vieja Old Havana

Fashion and long nails Havana Cuba

Fashion in Havana - The outfit for the Havana girl,
Long nails, oversized watch and Santeria fashion wristband



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