Pustorino is a historic
men's clothing store and tailor the Quattro Canti di
Palermo.
Her style is Old England.
It
opened more than a century ago, Peter Pustorino.
The old sign is maroon color with the characters in
italics.
The emblem of the House of
Savoy indicates that the shop was the supplier of
the royal family.
The wooden panels of the decor were designed by
Ernesto Basile.
Ducrot furniture and walls
painted everything has remained intact.
Between the years'20 and'30,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of Futurism, he
turned to Pustorino because a vest packed with the
silhouettes of hands drawn to the height of the pockets.
Perhaps it was the only transgression of tailoring, his
only diversion to classical, from customers who had
rigor George V of England, King Alfonso of Portugal, the
Duke of Aosta, i Florio, Raimondo Lanza di Trabia and
all the aristocracy Sicilian.
The last of Pustorino,
Christmas, died nel'96, has entrusted the shop to his
favorite pupil, Gaetano Pizzo and Vincenzo
Scarlata.
Scent
of London from Pustorino, ironically at the Teatro del
Sole (Vigliena square, the four songs), denied the smog
capital of the UK.
Store always frequented by
gentlemen who love to dress to English (a habit of many
Palermo, perhaps the only "British" when they go in the
United Kingdom).
Shelves, benches and windows of
the store offer customers the best brands and the best
models of "Made in England: shoes, hats, raincoats.
And it seems to be in Charing
Cross in Kensington, close to Hyde Park, there is no
corner, however, to improvise a speech strange.
With phlegm you can exchange and
share a chat, while you choose the clothes.
Once there he joined a British doc: King George V of
England!