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Alien's Street Market
This market just northwest of Ritan Park is packed to the gills with a huge variety of clothing, as well as tons of accessories. You can find most things here. It's popular with visiting Russian traders, which means the clothes come in bigger sizes than usual and the vendors will greet you in Russian. Haggling is essential.
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Beijing Silk Store
This big store has been supplying silk since 1840. The silk costs from around Y40 a metre, or you can visit the 2nd floor and pick up ready-to-wear pyjamas and shirts.
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Extreme Beyond
This small shop has a good selection of real brand-name hiking boots, waterproof jackets, backpacks and sleeping bags. There's also climbing gear. Prices here are not cheap (eg around Y650 for hiking boots), but the goods are the genuine article. The store takes only JCB cards.
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Five Colours Earth
Stylish clothing with a traditional Chinese twist from a local designer can be found at this store. The sexy tops incorporate embroidery made by the Miao minority in Guìzhōu province. It's good for jackets and coats too. Much of Five Colours Earth's stock is sold overseas, in the US and Italy, but you can pick it up far cheaper here.
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Hongqiao Market (Pearl Market)
Besides a cosmos of clutter (shoes, clothing, electronics and much more) and an impressive (and smelly) fish market in the basement, Hongqiao is home to more pearls than the South Seas. A huge range of them are available - freshwater and seawater, white pearls and black pearls - on the 3rd floor and prices vary incredibly depending on the quality.
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Lu Peng Trendsetters
Exquisite, hand-tailored qípǎos (traditional Chinese dresses) are the order of the day at this tiny shop. They're not cheap but the quality is superb and Lu Peng is one of the few Chinese designers who specialises in making them these days.
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Neiliansheng Shoe Shop
They say this is the oldest existing cloth shoe shop in China (it opened in 1853), and it has a factory that still employs more than 100 workers. Mao Zedong and other luminaries had their footgear made here and you too can pick up ornately embroidered shoes, or simply styled cloth slippers.
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Plastered T-Shirts
Wonder where everybody's got their 'Beijing Subway' T-shirt from? This is the place. Local icons are slapped on T-shirts (around Y80 - Y100 ) in a tongue-in-cheek way that gets expats and locals laughing out loud at the in-jokes.
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Silk Street
Relocated into a four-storey building on the corner of Jianguomenwai and Dongdaqiao Lu, the Silk Street continues to thrive despite some vendors being hit by lawsuits from top name brands tired of being counterfeited so blatently. All the legal action hasn't stopped the tourists arriving en masse daily. Their presence makes effective bargaining difficult. But this is a good place for cashmere, T-shirts, jeans, sneakers and the odd, chic dress.
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Vintage Store
Can't leave Běijīng without that retro Bruce Lee T-shirt? Desperate to replace your vintage Levi's? Then this is the place for you. With posters of Steve McQueen on the wall, a solid selection of old-school T-shirts (around Y100 ), jackets and jeans (around Y800 ), entering this funky little store is like stepping back in time to the '70s.
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