A bronze statue, outside the Seville bullring dedicated to the famous bullfighter Curro Romero.
Matador Dress
A matador is usually distinguished from his assistants
by his satin traje de luces (suit of lights) which is generally
decorated in gold. Assistants tend to wear suits decorated in silver.
A matator's suit is hand-made, taking six people a month to create
and costing from 1.500 EUR to 2.400 EUR, the whole outfit usually
costs over EUR 3.000.
The most popular colours are red, black, green,
blue and white. Yellow is never worn, even by spectators as it is
considered to be unlucky and toreros are highly superstitious. The
suit is worn with a white shirt, narrow black tie, a red, green
or black sash knotted at the waist, pink, knee-high stockings, black
ballet-style slippers and a black astrakhan which is a kind of two
cornered hat.
One final adornment is the pig tail which denotes
a matador and is clipped to the back of the head and symbolically
cut in the ring when the matador retires). The matador's cape is
worn only in the parade before a fight commences and then hung on
the fence in front of a friend or distinguished spectator.
Short list of bullfighters
currently fighting
Bullfighters from history
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