Medrano Sombrerería: The oldest in Madrid ... and Spain

Medrano Sombrerería: The oldest in Madrid ... and Spain

Joaquín Sabina is a customer, this is where he buys his hypes.They have also passed through this store José Sacristán, Emma Suárez, Paco Clavel, Ernesto Alterio, Marta Sánchez, Jesús Quintero ... and that when one has been open since 1832 (it is the oldest hatry in Spain) it gives so that many celebrities and strangers passFor the store.In search, as they will have guessed, from a hat that protects them from the cold in winter or Lorenzo in summer.

As soon as the door of this place with solera we have learned that the chulapo caps are called flasks and that in summer, what is most sold are the linen caps and the Panama hat, which is done with a straw called toquilla, which, whichIt comes from Ecuador.

The hat has not died, much less and it is something that is seen in this place located near the Madrid Plaza Mayor: since we have entered the recording he has had to stop several times such is the influx of public.Of all ages, they will not think that look complement in the trial is a thing of elderly..The public is very varied, as Héctor Medrano confirms, third generation at the head of the business: his grandfather took him in 1970.“They come from 20 -year -old kids to people with 100 years who have been coming, who attended my grandfather and know my family.There is a lot of foreigner, but there is also a lot of national trade, ”he clarifies.

What is best for sale?“In winter a very sold product is the cap, it is very easy to wear, very comfortable.It can be stored anywhere and is very versatile.Then, in summer, the main protagonist is the Panama hat, which is done in both gentleman and women models.And then, well, yes, in San Isidro, the San Isidro cap.In winter, for example, the beret for women is also sold a lot, ”explains the young man.

Sombrerería Medrano: la más antigua de Madrid… y de España

The store has it in property and the building is antiqu very: “We have the purchase of the land of 1760 so it is very difficult for anything to be very difficult.In fact, several rehabilitations have been made.In the building everything is subject, all wood beams with iron beams.There is a counter and some shelves that will be about 100 years old, the rest is more recent, ”he confirms.Apparently, at some point in all these years the store was divided into two, Medrano intuits that for economic reasons, but then they recovered the surface of the beginnings, which is the one that can be seen today.

Hattería Medrano is a store but also, workshop: there "we produce all personal, film, theater, the most special and then our own designs," he clarifies.And all part of measuring the client's head, as we have the opportunity to see.After the measurement, the model and the manufacturing time are chosen, it varies greatly: “It is not finished in a day because it needs a drying process so that it is with the form.So maybe in two days you can have finished.As for the materials we use, it depends on the season, in winter felt of wool, rabbit hair and for summer for example, the toquilla straw to make the panama or wheat straws, ”he clarifies.

They make all kinds of hats: “We do a lot, for example, beating of all colors.Napoleonic hats, Station Chief or Sudist Caps of the War of America ”.If you are looking for an unconventional hat, fixed that they have it or they do it.

And, now that summer is approaching and the sun will not give us truce, what maintenance must be given to a hat?Can we leave it forgotten in the car?“Putting a hat in the car is a bad idea, because being straw the heat dry it and then it is much easier to start.So, the easiest to maintain a Panama, for example, is when you show your hat in the bathroom to take the humidity of the environment.If you are in a place with coast, it is not necessary, because the material takes the humidity of the environment ”.

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