Part III: The Chaos

I like shopping as much as the next person, especially when everything is so incredibly cheap.
But it's rather terrible, because it makes it that much easier to spend money...;)
Don't worry, though, friends! Your friend Angie is not throwing away her life savings...instead she is documenting OTHER people doing that!
This is one spot my aunt Peggy took Catherine and I...it's really famous with the 16-25ish crowd. A ton of these tiny little stores strung together, it's literally a maze. Please notice that all these photos I took were at 1 PM approximately, and the place was CRAZY by 3 PM. Not even enough room to take out a camera--every lane is jam-packed with shoppers. Plus the motor scooters that are trying to weave their way around, in these narrow, narrow streets. Peggy keeps on telling me to buy more stuff, and sell it back in the US to make a profit. :D

All the prices are relatively similar--everything is around $6-15. But leave it to me to find one dress that I really, really loved...and it was $90. :p We said goodbye pretty quickly...

Hehe, it looks like the mannequins are running away, too.

Why are mannequins so fascinating and creepy at the same time? Wax museums used to make me cry--I hated that they never moved...


On the left, just imagine that, triple the amount of people, and throw in a couple motor scooters, and then also some street vendors selling bubble tea or fried fish. On the right, well, it speaks for itself!


For those of you who love your handbags...eat your heart out. :p


The thing is...people are pretty fashionable here. At least, Taipei can be pretty cosmopolitan, and it shows in how seriously people take name brands and dressing well. It's really funny, I remember looking at an issue of Vogue at the airport in LA or something, and I saw the fashions in there shown in their versions of Seventeen here...But even funnier is this photo. I heart lack of spellcheck. So great. Read carefully!