Clothes again
May 19th, 2007 by Xtine71
Yes, I know I have mentioned it before but this time I actually did go buy some stuff. I was down to one last pair of jeans and the zip had just broke and I thought enough was enough. Another annoying thing was having to wash my clothes and then having nothing to wear while they were drying.
I had decided to limit myself to spending € 100. I was very surprised with what I bought for that amount. My first stop was Via Nazionale. There are a lot of very reasonably priced clothing stores. One of them was Brooks which has jeans, t-shirts, shirts, jeans, and jackets. The clothes were all reasonably priced the 2 shirts I bought were only 10 euros each. Ok, they weren’t 100 % cotton and I didn’t buy them from a boutique in Via del Corso but they fit really well. Now I needed to get jeans. Unfortunately the sale price ones were only available in absolutely enormous sizes. Not being the biggest guy in the world, I decided to try my luck at Upim.
The one I went to is located just on the opposite side of the street from Santa Maria Maggiore, the other is located in Termini station.Very close to our Yes Hotel Rome. There are a few other departments in the store besides clothes but anyway I was interested in getting some jeans. The jeans on average cost me € 19 and they were 100 % cotton. The quality is really good and these ones have buttons instead of zips so hopefully they will last a bit longer.
Now my final mission was to get some shoes. So I remembered that on the same street outside Upim there were the usual vendors selling shoes. Ok now € 10 for a pair of shoes is not going to buy you the best Versace or Armani has to offer but its great if you have not gotten your luggage from the airport yet or you have only bought your best high heels and forgotten about the cobble stones and all the walking you will be doing. Two pairs of shoes = € 20.
So in my opinion it was a day well spent and the money went a long way too.