With a strut and sass of a Spanish Peaky Blinder, Madrid’s chulos would walk around 18th century Madrid wearing waistcoats with a carnation in the lapel, dark tight trousers, black and white checked caps, boots and a white handkerchief around their necks. The fact that the clothing of the cocky wheeler dealers of Madrid 300 years ago are now worn with pride by madrileños, and that the word chulo itself means conceited in Spanish - goes some way to explaining the enduring stereotype. Madrileños do operate at a faster pace than most Spaniards, there is more ‘old money’ and posh people to go with it than anywhere else in Spain (nicknamed pijos or Cayetanos) and the city is objectively home to the best football team in history (Real Madrid that is, sorry Atlético fans).