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"Yumurí" brown woven-textile lace-up casual shoes with white saddle overlays

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Pair of men's/unisex low-top casual lace-up shoes of plimsoll/sneaker construction. Uppers are a coarse brown woven textile (jute/linen-type hopsack) with white leather or vinyl saddle-style overlays around the lacing, finished with scalloped/pinked edges. The topline is bound in brown leather/vinyl forming a padded collar; the tongue/throat is a brown ribbed knit gusset. Closure is brown round laces through metal eyelets. A blue-and-gold woven brand label reading YUMURÍ sits at the left throat. Soles are pale rubber/crepe with a thin foxing band (vulcanized/cemented, espadrille-like edge). Insoles are textile, heavily soiled and degraded.

2025.1.345

Belonged to Leopoldo Arús Gálvez, who wore them to exercise.

Everyday casual footwear retailed under the Cuban brand Yumurí. Yumurí was a Havana clothing-and-footwear brand/store of the socialist period; period sources recall branded apparel such as the "camisa Yumurí," placing the name firmly in 1970s–1980s Cuban consumer culture. The shoe combines a utilitarian textile-and-rubber (plimsoll) build with a decorative white saddle overlay. Whether Yumurí manufactured the shoe or applied its label as a retail brand is not established.

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection

2025.1

Shoes

Male

Fabric

Brown

White

MINIL

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Yumurí

Date: not independently datable; circa 1970s–1980s tentative, on general stylistic/construction grounds only.

Label

Side

Yumurí

Spanish

Label

Woven brand label at the left-shoe throat: YUMURÍ (black/gold).

size 11 (US men's shoe size)

Two shoes (left, right)

Poor

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use