I decided, after realising that most of my friends are always asking for my good tips to buy cheap clothes in paris. Here are some of my favorites (promise, if I found others, will let you know after a personal check!):
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Kookai Stock - 82 rue Réaumur, métro Réaumur Sébastopol
A nice place, with old collections as well as the new ones. I found some pretty good stuff there for half the price. Dresses, T-shirts and jeans... Better if you are a 36, because 40 is quite rare.
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Etam Stock - 2 rue de Clignancourt, métro Barbès
Not that many things, but really really some cheap clothes. Found a dress for 8 euros, perfect to go at work.
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Maje stock - 44 avenue du Général Leclerc - métro Mouton Duvernet
From the first sight, this shop looks like crap. And the clothes too. But when you look closer, you can find pretty interesting stuff. There is the Maje stock at the back of the shop, and other brands at the entrance. Problem: if you don't know your size well,don't go there. You can't try the clothes on, and the "staff" is watching all your moves, like spies! you also have to pay cash, and won't be refunded if it doesn't fit... So really, bu sure of what you want! Or else, I heard a true Maje Stock with nice stuff and guarantees opened Rue des Martyrs: 92 rue des Martyrs. But apparently, too expensive...
http://soisbelleetparle.fr/2009/01/stock-maje-rue-des-martyrs-abbesses/-
Sympa - all along Boulevard Rochechouart - 18ème
Sympa shops can be found all along the boulevard, but more particularly at the cross streets Rue Steinkerque and Boulevard Rochechouart. Crappy place, and not very friendly staff, some restrictions to try the clothes on, but so cheap that you would sell your liver to buy all the shop. I suppose what they have depends on wht they receive, and I don't know where the clothes come from, but it is just crazy! Kookai stuff from 7 to 12 euros max, belt from Tara Jarmon at 5 euros, Petit Bateau T-shirt for 5 euros too... Bref, perfect place for small budgets!
Let's go to Vintage NOW!!
Vintage shops can be found everywhere in Paris, and I didn't visit them all despite it is my plan.
My favorite one:
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Frip Irium - 2 rue de la Verrerie - Métro Hotel de Ville
The first one I went in, and my favorite. Nice staff, nice and clean place. I found there a very very nice jacket, probably Haute Couture though I can't know because no sign of it, just extreme good quality. Found also a fur hat for 20 euros... Here, excentric clothes go along with more common stuff, but always vintage, meaning very very old (and a but smelly, sign of a good vintage stuff). So go there, and if you are nice you will get a free scarf!
PS: there are other vintage shops in the corner, but staff is not nice, crappy presentation of clothes and really really smelly (sign of a good vintage I know, but not of cleaness!)
And NOW! Second hand shops!! Yipi!!
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Chercheminnips - Rue du Cherche midi côté Bld du montparnasse - Métro Duroc/Montpar
Went there with my mum. Really nice stuff, from quite expensive to really cheap. Vanessa Bruno, Zadig et Voltaire, American Vintage along with Kookai and other stuff. There is a shop for everybody: kids, boys, Haute Couture and normal lady clothes. I thought there that I found my next favorite summer dress, but when I took it to try it on, and a girl told me: "I think it is more a 36", meaning "you're too fat for that dress girl, me and my skeletic body will fit better in it", I drop it (and it put my moral down for the rest of the day, you bitch!!). But anyway, we are not all eating crap diet food so...enjoy there!
