The Guayabera in Media

Jurrasic Park is one of the top examples of movies that utilize the Guayabera. The character John Hammond, played by Richard Attenborough, can be seen sporting a white Guayabera throughout the film. For those who are unfamiliar, the film tells the story of a wealthy entrepreneur who secretly constructs a theme park filled with living dinosaurs derived from prehistoric DNA. Before the park opens, he invites a team of experts and his two enthusiastic grandkids to experience the park and alleviate the investors' fears. The park, however, is anything but entertaining as the security systems fail and the dinosaurs escape.

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style strongly influenced 20th-century fiction. Hemingway wrote much of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He wrote seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two nonfiction works. As seen in the photo on the left,  we see him sporting a white long-sleeved Guayabera.   Hemingway and his new wife Martha purchased a property outside of Havana, Cuba, in 1940.  Staying there for the next twenty years. The Hemingways named the location Finca Vigia, which translates as "lookout farm." They lived with dozens of Hemingway's favorite cats, as well as trophies from numerous successful hunting and fishing adventures.