You’ve got six days until Cinco de Mayo hits. And when it does, you’ll need: 1) an industrial supply of guacamole and 2) the greatest collection of mariachi band equipment of all time. Assuming you’ve got the guac, we’ve got the rest...
Meet Tomas Delgado. He’s just your average third-generation guitar luthier making mariachi guitars like his granddad taught him. In other words: the perfect thing to help you bring out your inner Antonio Banderas in Desperado. And in other other words: actually... no, that pretty much covers it.
You’ve got suits. Navy ones. Gray ones. But unless you have a bejeweled, made-to-measure traje with dragons embroidered on the sleeves from the most renowned mariachi tailors in the game... well, you’ll just have to play “La Cucaracha” in black tie. Which is fine the other 364 days of the year, but...
A mariachi band without sombreros is no mariachi band at all. Likewise, a mariachi band without some custom-fitted, custom-embroidered and custom-colored sombreros is... well, not your mariachi band. Because that’s what you’ll get from these guys. And come on, your guests deserve it.
You know Lucchese. They’ve been cobbling up cowboy boots since the days of actual cowboys. As for this one: looks just like your traditional mariachi dancing boot. It’s fashioned right in El Paso. It’s got a teakwood sole. It’s made of buttery-soft calf leather from India. And hey, cows are sacred there.
Somewhere between margaritas two and five and a half, a flaxen-haired tequila goddess will say to you, “My, that’s a nice mariachi bow you’ve got on.” And you’ll say, “Thanks, it’s hand-embroidered. Called it in from Houston yesterday.” To which she’ll respond, “Oh, I love hand-embroidered mariachi bows from Houston.” Probably.
