Havana has pretty much the same climate as Miami. Mind you Florida is awash in A/C while Cuba...........not so much.Maguire said:i doubt even Florida gets as hot as Havana.
BTW, great photo of your grandfather.
Havana has pretty much the same climate as Miami. Mind you Florida is awash in A/C while Cuba...........not so much.Maguire said:i doubt even Florida gets as hot as Havana.
Yes i saw a documentary on the Cuban/South African negotiations during the war in Angola and the cuban diplomat is boasting about how the SA diplomats were sweating and couldn't cope with either their cigar smoking or the lack of AC. It was a macho boast on his part, but i figured if even the diplomat at high level doesn't have AC, i can't imagine many of the average cubans having it either. I suppose when you are born and raised in the climate, you don't think about it.Tomasso said:Havana has pretty much the same climate as Miami. Mind you Florida is awash in A/C while Cuba...........not so much.
BTW, great photo of your grandfather.
Maguire said:Here's another one from Cuba in the less wealthy parts of Havana, my grandfather at some point, probably the 1940s.
He was certainly not rich by any standing, and most of his clothes was made at home by his mother, so it says alot. It looks like a guayabera to me, or at least a jacket like one. You could fry an egg in the streets there, i doubt even Florida gets as hot as Havana.
Maguire said:I've got alot of photos of my folks back there and you don't see it as often as you'd believe. I mean granted, you go into downtown Havana and you will, but in the barrios etc, guayaberas (mostly home made stuff) was the usual. It was usually an open neck type shirt jacket worn over another shirt, both very light, essentially a long sleeve guayabera. I see this on quite alot of the old photos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEMYLkpYxX8
here's some eye candy for you though
cookie said:Thanks for that film. It makes the present condition of the most beautiful city in Latin America even more painful. A Colombian friend said to me the other day that he been recently in Cuba and it was so bad he advised me not to visit it - which is what I would like to do. Somewhere around the Lounge is a short film from Havana of the 30s that I posted.
Maguire do you have any fotos of your abuelito or family in their lin 100 suits that you could post?
Mycubanstore.com have Irish linen guayaberas on sale in the long sleeves for weddings. http://www.mycubanstore.com/100-irish-linen-cuban-stlye-elegant-french-cuffs-long-sleeve
Tomasso said:Houston just may have the nastiest summers in the US. That's where I learned about the value of the undershirt. Sounds incongruous to add another layer but it works. It's also where I learned to keep a change of shirt/undershirt stashed in the car, office and club.
Absinthe_1900 said:Wait until August, it's not even started here yet.
Lenore said:From a place with actual 110 degree heat and swamp like humidity, I second, third and fourth, additional cotton undergarments and clothes of cotton, linen, and rayon.
If I'm not in an office, I'm in a cotton/linen/rayon dress with a cotton slip. I wouldn't suggest that for your wardrobe. You might look a little odd in a light cotton dress.
Actually, the same cooling effect gained by wearing an undershirt also applies to undershorts. Plus, I couldn't imagine going commando in dress pants....Geronimo said:Going commando helps quite a bit.
Geronimo said:This might get me slapped, mickeyed, or tasered, depending on the preferred tactic of bartenders, but...
Going commando helps quite a bit. Aside from that, walk slow, drink (water) heavily, keep your heart rate down and your hat on your head.
My fiance swears by gold bond for the same purpose, I speculate.Lenore said:My husband, who is home today, wished to pass on some advice which thankfully he did not elaborate on. Keep your shorts on and two words: Talcum Powder. :eusa_doh:
This reminds me of the time my grandmother visited us in Tucson, Arizona in the 60s. She raised 7 kids and was born and raised in Iowa. She was complaining about the 90 degree heat and my mother said, well its not like Iowa 90s with 90 percent humidity, my grandmother just said "90 degrees is 90 degrees and thats hot"!johnnyelvis said:I know it hasn't been 110 degrees here in Florida but it damn well feels that way some afternoons, and it is always the humidity that makes 90 degrees feel like 100.
Still, there is a difference.Stearmen said:my grandmother just said "90 degrees is 90 degrees and thats hot"!