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The women who patronized A. & L. Tirocchi were wealthy Yankee women, mostly from Providence, but also coming from outlying areas of the city and from Newport, Connecticut, and Fall River, MA. These elite families of Providence were friends, acquaintances,
and neighbors. Ninety of the Tirocchi clients lived on the East
Side in houses of varying grandeur. Of those 90 women, 64 lived
in the area bounded by Olney Street, Hope Street, Stimson Avenue,
Governor Street, Williams Street, and Benefit Street–an area
that might be considered the stately, aristocratic core of the East
Side, with homes built primarily in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. The 1932 Blue Book for Providence and Nearby Cities,
an annual publication that functioned as a local The Tirocchi clients shared leisure activities and civic interests.
Many belonged to the Women’s Republican Club of Rhode Island,
the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Providence Art Club, and
the Handicraft Club. With their husbands, they were members of elite
clubs such as the Rhode Island Country Club, the Agawam Hunt Club,
and the East Side Skating Club. Some also belonged to the National
Society of Colonial Dames, whose members trace their families to
Colonial times in America. Civic work was done through membership The Tirocchi sisters rarely advertised, preferring instead that recommendations about their work spread by word of mouth from their valued clients. From the beginning, Madame Tirocchi strove to attract the East Side crowd, the Providence aristocracy.
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