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In their early years in Providence, family tradition indicates that Anna and Laura Tirocchi worked for Rose Carraer, a dressmaker to the upper classes who remained their chief competitor as "Madame Zarr" in later years. By 1912, the Tirocchi sisters had set up their own shop in the Butler Exchange building on Westminster Street, evidently taking some of Rose Carraer's wealthy clients with them.

Anna Tirocchi in the Butler Exchange workroom
making the final adjustments to a dress;
ca. 1914
Tirocchi Archive.

The Butler Exchange
First site of the
Tirocchi sisters' shop
Providence, ca. 1915
Tirocchi Archive, gift of Pamela Parmal