Akwa Postcards · Havana, Cuba
Wide linen trousers: the Caribbean cut for the long afternoon
The trouser breaks once at the shoe and again at the knee.
Linen falls in long columns,
the waist sits high,
the walk is unhurried by design.
The story
Caribbean linen trousers are cut wider and higher than European tailoring to keep the cloth off the skin in heat. The break at the shoe is generous; the pleat is single and forward; the waist sits at or above the navel for a relaxed silhouette under a guayabera. In Havana the cut is daily formalwear, paired with two-tone leather shoes and a straw hat.
The artwork on this postcard is an AI generated Akwa design.