In most Italin cities, the traveling market arrives once or twice a week.
The markets offer a wide range of goods: from cosmetics to shoes, from false jewelry to gadgets, from fish to vegetables.However, the substance of the market is clothes: new and used.
The stalls selling new clothing tend to specialize in a few types of garments and the inventory tend to be constant for some weeks or months, but prices also are usually stable!Often the lowest-cost merchandise is from China, even if there are cheap Italian garments too.
In traveling markets there are also used clothes; their inventory changes weekly.Where do theese clothes come from?Some of them come from various groups that collect them for charitable purposes and sell lots to market vendors. Others are pieces rejected by stores or individuals because they have difects, others come from dry cleaners where the owner didn’t redeem them. Most of the inventory is made up of graments discarded because they are no longer on the cutting edge of style.
Not infrequently, clothes’ sizes are mismarked, but the vendor can always give you a good estimate of the size; the facilieties for trying on clothes are usually limited ar noneexistent and you cannot return what you buy from these sellers, even if prices are so low, that you can stay to the risk!
In markets there are also many counterfeit namebrand clothing.Sophisticated buyers probably don’t like this fact, but I think that, if you likes a thing, it doesn’t matter if it is real or not.
An important warning is that, in markets, there are many pickpockets, so you have to keep money in a safe place.
The markets offer a wide range of goods: from cosmetics to shoes, from false jewelry to gadgets, from fish to vegetables.However, the substance of the market is clothes: new and used.
The stalls selling new clothing tend to specialize in a few types of garments and the inventory tend to be constant for some weeks or months, but prices also are usually stable!Often the lowest-cost merchandise is from China, even if there are cheap Italian garments too.
In traveling markets there are also used clothes; their inventory changes weekly.Where do theese clothes come from?Some of them come from various groups that collect them for charitable purposes and sell lots to market vendors. Others are pieces rejected by stores or individuals because they have difects, others come from dry cleaners where the owner didn’t redeem them. Most of the inventory is made up of graments discarded because they are no longer on the cutting edge of style.
Not infrequently, clothes’ sizes are mismarked, but the vendor can always give you a good estimate of the size; the facilieties for trying on clothes are usually limited ar noneexistent and you cannot return what you buy from these sellers, even if prices are so low, that you can stay to the risk!
In markets there are also many counterfeit namebrand clothing.Sophisticated buyers probably don’t like this fact, but I think that, if you likes a thing, it doesn’t matter if it is real or not.
An important warning is that, in markets, there are many pickpockets, so you have to keep money in a safe place.
By Giulia Covacci
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