Zorrilla clothing
Zorrilla clothing
SINCE 1870 The sale “on fiao” and the payment in kind On November 16, 1870, Benigno Cano opened a fabric store on Concepción Jerónima street with a turn onto Toledo street, an area that concentrated a large number of textile shops. Today, Confecciones J
...Originally the store shipped fabric by the meter and household linen, blankets and table linens. Afterwards, home clothes were replaced by women's and men's clothes, especially men's (shirts, pants, T-shirts, pajamas, etc.) and, as a specialty, work clothes. During the war and after the war, it was normal for customers who came from the towns to acquire the goods in exchange for animals, especially lambs and kids; a seller of live turkeys, who used to settle in the Plaza de Puerta Cerrada and in the Plaza de Santa Cruz with her flock, bought some fabrics in exchange for a turkey, which lived with the Zorrillas for months. In the forties it was normal to sell "on fiao"; The store had a book in which the names, dates and amounts of the customers it trusted were recorded. Zorrilla maintains the same spirit of the last decades: on the original wooden counter that the store still preserves, the fourth generation of the Zorrilla family continues to sell men's fashion and work clothes that have made them famous. in this more than centenary corner of the center of Madrid.
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