Conrad and Leonor Gonzalez of Colorado Springs shop at Mariachi Connection for dance shoes, costumes and accessories for their nonprofit dance group, Ballet Folklorico de Barajas.City elections are underway in San Antonio and we’re keeping you up-to-date with comprehensive coverage ofPlease support our reporting with a donation to help ensure all San Antonio voters are informed at the ballot box.
Housed in an all-white, century-old Colonial mansion on the West Side, on the inside, the store explodes with vibrant color, shared laughs and at times musica. With a full inventory of embroidered trajes, or suits, and velvety sombreros, ribboned skirts, bright-white jarocho dresses and peasant blouses, plus boots and shoes, Mariachi Connection provides the costumes for all ages of performers across the country and around the world.
Even the moños, or ties, which come in a rainbow of solids and tricolor stripes, can be customized with embroidery.Like the Gonzaleses, people come from all over to shop at the Mariachi Connection — and for all sorts of occasions, from weddings and quinceaneras to television shows and movies, Fiesta and Cinco de Mayo. Benavides recalled one customer who wanted the gala-adorned traje pants to wear while riding his motorcycle.
“We do sell to schools, and usually the schools will put their logo on there or they’ll use their school colors just like band uniforms,” she said.