MJL
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 150
- Location
- Homestead, Florida USA
We endured Hurricane Katrina as it nailed my home town of Homestead, Florida last week. After getting cleaned up, repairing the damage and seeing to the restoration of our power we went shopping.
We were doing some "replacement" shopping at BJs when a man walked up to me and started telling me, in Spanish, that I looked JUST like his father used to dress back in Cuba during the 40s. He said that this was the way that most Cuban men of means dressed in the 40s and 50s. I was wearing slacks, a heavily starched white Guayaberra shirt and the new/old Milan Straw hat that I had just bought off Ebay. I also had a .45 on my hip, under the Guayberra and a large stogie in my top pocket. I had not thought about making any statements. I was just going shopping. Yet, looking at myself in the reflection of the frozen food cases I guess I did look like something that walked off the plane from Havana in 1947. If you have not tried the Guayaberra look you ought to consider it. I have used one for years in the summer time as another method to keep cool and pack heat at the same time. The hat was the thing that pushed me right into the past. Cool! I need another one of these vintage straws now!
We were doing some "replacement" shopping at BJs when a man walked up to me and started telling me, in Spanish, that I looked JUST like his father used to dress back in Cuba during the 40s. He said that this was the way that most Cuban men of means dressed in the 40s and 50s. I was wearing slacks, a heavily starched white Guayaberra shirt and the new/old Milan Straw hat that I had just bought off Ebay. I also had a .45 on my hip, under the Guayberra and a large stogie in my top pocket. I had not thought about making any statements. I was just going shopping. Yet, looking at myself in the reflection of the frozen food cases I guess I did look like something that walked off the plane from Havana in 1947. If you have not tried the Guayaberra look you ought to consider it. I have used one for years in the summer time as another method to keep cool and pack heat at the same time. The hat was the thing that pushed me right into the past. Cool! I need another one of these vintage straws now!