{"id":969,"date":"2009-01-20T19:46:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=969"},"modified":"2009-01-20T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:46:44","slug":"what-type-of-fashion-victim-are-you-paris-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/what-type-of-fashion-victim-are-you-paris-shopping","title":{"rendered":"What type of Fashion Victim are you?  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Looking is free, so why not!\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to check out the boutiques, it&#8217;s advisable to dress appropriately.\u00a0 The French are very stylish dressers, especially at this end of town, so anyone daring to walk in with track shoes and daggy jeans will be looked down upon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next area to check out should certainly be <em>Les Grands Magasins<\/em> in Boulevard Haussmann.\u00a0 Here, upmarket department stores like Printemps Haussmann and Galeries Lafayette will keep you pretty busy with their floors of fine merchandise.\u00a0 The stores\u00a0stock the international branded designer names as well as local and upcoming labels and you&#8217;ll have a greater price range to work with here.\u00a0 See our earlier article on <a title=\"Les Grands Magasins of Paris\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/paris-shopping-les-grands-magasins-of-paris-france\" target=\"_self\">Les Grands Magasins<\/a>.\u00a0 <em>Trendies<\/em> will find their styles in these stores. The good thing about department stores is that you can browse at leisure and there&#8217;s usually not enough floor staff around, especially at sales time, so there&#8217;s no one tailing you around and pressuring you to buy. The department stores also have nice cafes where you can rest your tired feet and enjoy a nice glass of wine and cheese plate before you tackle the next leg of your reconnaissance.\u00a0 Boulevard Haussmann is a huge street and there are other trendy shops in this street so even if you&#8217;re finished with the department stores, there&#8217;s more to explore here.<\/p>\n<p>What next after\u00a0<em>Les Grands Magasins<\/em>?\u00a0 Well starting afresh the next day, I would head out to <a title=\"La Vallee Village\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Paris\/paris_shopping_designeroutlets.php\" target=\"_self\">La Vall\u00e9e Village<\/a>, a &#8220;unique outlet shopping village&#8221; located about 30 minutes from the centre of Paris, and 5 minutes from the Disney Parks. Over 70 leading ready-to-wear, table ware and luxury labels offer items from their previous season&#8217;s collections with a minimum of 33% reduction off original recommended price, up to a maximum of 60%.\u00a0 La Vall\u00e9e Village is currently offering up to 50% reduction on already greatly reduced prices so you could land some really good bargains here! You&#8217;ve already done two days of research in town and have a good idea of what&#8217;s available and prices so you&#8217;re set to make your purchases if you see things that you like here.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a village-style open-air centre, La Vall\u00e9e Village\u00a0 has a Welcome Centre, caf\u00e9s, playground area, tax-free shopping, and free parking.\u00a0 You can get here by RER or hop on the Cityrama shuttles which come out here on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.\u00a0 And, if you don&#8217;t feel like travelling back to Paris or you would like more time out here, there are several resorts in the area that you could stay at and maybe have a day out at Disneyland.\u00a0 I wonder what&#8217;s scarier, the big dipper or the big dent in your bank account!<\/p>\n<p>The possibilities are endless and we haven&#8217;t even touched on people who look for <em>Creative<\/em> or the <em>Bohemian<\/em> look.\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s shopping for gifts and the food trail as well.\u00a0 I reckon that after a week scouring the above districts, you&#8217;d be pretty shopped out or at least your wallet would be.\u00a0 If anyone has any interesting Paris shopping experiences, tips\u00a0or stories, I would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Where to Shop in Paris?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/where-to-shop-in-paris\" target=\"_self\">Where to shop in Paris?<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Soldes by Paris - Paris Sales\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/soldes-by-paris-paris-sales\" target=\"_self\">Soldes by Paris &#8211; Paris Sales<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Les Grands Magasins of Paris\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/paris-shopping-les-grands-magasins-of-paris-france\" target=\"_self\">Paris Shopping &#8211; Les Grands Magasins of Paris, France<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Paris Shopping Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Paris\/paris_shopping.php\" target=\"_self\">Paris Shopping Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, when it comes fashion shopping, much of the pleasure comes from feasting your eyes on lots of different designer styles, seeing what&#8217;s on sale and then narrowing your choices down to the best buys and what you can really afford.\u00a0 There&#8217;s so much to choose from in Paris and this calls for big decisions [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,37],"tags":[1119,1499,2382,1761],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-paris-shopping","tag-les-grands-magasins-paris","tag-paris-outlet-shopping","tag-paris-shopping","tag-soldes-by-paris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What type of Fashion Victim are you? 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