My biff with shopping in China by enigma84

travel · @enigma84 · Mar 11 '17

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My biff with shopping in China

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<p>Cheap clothes, really cheap clothes, I must have been dreaming. That was until I was rudely awoken by the shop assistant telling me I could not try on that really cute dress. “Small” she said pointing at it then pointing at me and shaking her head. I looked down at my waist gesture the size, pointed at the dress and the tag that claimed it was a ‘L’ again she shook her head. What was she saying!?&nbsp;</p>
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<p>She took 2 of the 5 things I had to try on off the coat hanger shoved them in my hand then pushed me towards the change room. I came out wearing what turned out to be a much more hideous top than it had looked hanging limply on the coat hanger. “Beautiful” the girl said. I shook my head, no not beautiful! Others I said questioningly and then mimed what was suppose to be a dress she shook her head. She pointed to me and said “big” then pointed back at the rack where I got them from and said “small”. OK I got the message loud and clear me a small girl by Australian standards needed to stop eating so much rice and get exercising!&nbsp;</p>
<p>This wasn’t the first time I had come across the ‘whole your too big just give up’ situation. Previously I had gone shopping with a Chinese friend, which was great to get the prices down not so good for my self-confidence. She enthusiastically would say “we go” and shop after shop we would go in and shop after shop the shop assistance would pull up the back of my top take a long inquisitive look at my rear end, rummage through a pile of shorts then shake there head. No they didn’t have pants that would fit a round western derriere! My friend said to me rather chirpily as we moved on to the next store “I feel you are a little bit fat”. The way she said it was so casual as if she had just told me “it’s nice and sunny today!” As if my self-confidence hadn’t already dropped through the floor, leaving a massive hole now I was “a little bit fat!”. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I wasn’t going to let these not so great shopping experience prevent me form enjoying my favourite past time. Surely there were Chinese girls my size and surely they had to buy clothes too. I hatched a brilliant plan, followed the Chinese girls that looked more like me and maybe I would find a shop that stocked my size. Needless to say the only ones I could see on the whole Shou Ma Lu shopping strip were either tiny or just old and I certainly wasn’t either!&nbsp;</p>
<p>I gave up and headed back home. When I say gave up of course I don’t mean give up shopping because luckily for me on the way home many people decided that the sidewalk would be a good place to set up shop. For hundreds of meters I was in clothes lying on tarpaulin heaven! Here at least they weren’t going to turn me away form the change rooms, there were none! Several minutes later, money spent and two dresses in hand I was finally satisfied.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I hadn’t got what I’d come for but I’d left happy and having made some new friends from the highschool. Students keen to help me bargain in exchange for practicing there English, pretty easy deal for me!&nbsp;</p>
<p>Despite the Chinese clothes shopping experience constantly trying to shatter my western self-confidence there is one thing I always remind myself. My feet may be too big, I may be too large but there’s a friendly shop assistant in Beijing who wishes her bottom was as round and foreign as mine!!!&nbsp;</p>
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<p>P.S. For those of you confused by my Aussie colloquialism a biff means brawl</p>
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@solarguy · Mar 11 '17

nice photos.  china is by far an interesting experience in the least.

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@enigma84 · Mar 17 '17

Yes,  I agree with you)

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@olga.maslievich · Mar 11 '17

Excellent work! I resteemed!

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@enigma84 · Mar 17 '17

Спасибо огромное))

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@ace108 · Mar 12 '17

Some nice pictures and interesting war story at the shops. 
Just wonder which part of China is this though suspect will be similar experience if you have it in a different city.

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@bguerrero1986 · Mar 12 '17

i love your post keep up the good work btw can you follow me thank you @bguerrero1986

👍 seraph, pfunk10
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@enigma84 · Mar 17 '17

Thank you for your support, I followed you)

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@richardjuckes · Mar 12 '17

One student said to me, we know you like to help the environment [pause to allow my ego to absorb the compliment] because your clothes are so old.

👍 seraph
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@enigma84 · Mar 17 '17

Haha, a funny story, thank you for sharing it, I felt the same while I was shopping in China)

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