Colonial times
People of the Cuban villages did not dress bad, although clothes were simpler than in Spain. If there moral, industrial poverty and customs barriers prevented foreign fashions, in Cuba these factors depressed the excesses. Everyone wore the ornaments their pleasure or capital allowed them. It was a complicated set of clothes for men: shirt, close-fitting jacket, under pants and socks. For women, shirt, close fitting-jacket, petticoat, several skirts and panties.
Blacks and mulattos hardly dressed. The black slaves were usually uncovered and walk without shoes. As the most expensive fabrics were wool and flax, people could not afford them. In short, for those contradictions of life, the humblest dressed according to the tropical climate of Cuba. Clothes denotes social status, historical context and can enhance or decay the physical appearance. It is used to protect from the climate, but over time, reaches other connotations.
Until the nineteenth century there was no jewelry, but imitations or fakes. Fashion design influenced more than quality. The most frequent were the chains, bracelets, earrings and gold rings. In the second half of the eighteenth century fashion changes largely by the need its users had to adapt to our tropical climate.