Phuket has places that are not marked (for now) in tourist brochures and on the maps. Only there and you can truly understand and feel what is - modern Thailand. For example, local youth adores every week on Thursday and Friday to gather on Phuket Town Indy Market.
On Phuket Town Indy Market you can buy accessories for every taste ...
According to European standards, the market has opened relatively recently - in 2010. But almost immediately, artists, musicians and informals of all the masters were chosen immediately. Another plus - the market is in the old town, and numerous tourist trails do not intersect here, so there are almost no celebrating Faras. Mostly there are exclusively local.
The market itself is small (I would say - tiny). But here cozy and interesting. You can listen to the performances of young artists (all speak only "alive"), make a creative manicure, but the main thing is to buy unusual clothes from some local designer. And at the same time be sure: the new thing exists in a single copy.
... or right away, on the street, make an unusual manicure.
It is said that many Fashion bloggers and fashion designers of all the masters are in Thailand go to inspiration. Thai fashion today is a kind of mix from the latest world trends with a kind of Japanese madness, Korean Slastoughness and local traditions.
The collective image of Thai fashionista is a girl with bright emerald (orange, turquoise) color, with decorative braces with sparkling skulls or flowers, in a stounted cut dress and unusual bright shoes (more often are sneakers) with mandatory socks.
Many things on this "market for their own" sell the authors themselves.
By the way, designer clothes (local production) can be bought not only on the market, but also in numerous Cafe Phuket Town. Now it is here such a fashionable chip: put a few hangers with unique things between the tables, and then improvised impressions at the evenings. Creative, you will not say anything.
New fashionable chip - selling things of local designers right in the cafe.
... well, and those from Thais who enters the local elite, prefer to go shopping in Singapore. We decided not to lag behind the "girls from the highest society" and in one of the weekends, together with his daughter, went to shopping in this city garden. And at first turned out to be very disappointed ...
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.