Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Seravalle Shopping Trip (18 Nov 2006)

Went to this place called Serravalle, about 1.5hrs drive south from Milan. I think Serravalle means designer factory outlet, just like the Habour Town in Brisbane. Our colleagues told us that the traffic jam started outside the expressway! So, we reached there at 10am (their opening hour) to beat the crowd. But the traffic is smooth that day probably the day they went, it was sales on top of the outlet price. Anyway, it was a big low-raised building of shops, unlike Takashimaya and Marina Square though.


Started off with a cup of coffee at a cafe like the Italians before we started our rummage. The first shop I went into was Prada and without hesitation, I bought a wallet which cost only 100 euro and plus the tax refund, I think it only cost like 90 euro! Along Prada, there are D&G, Versace, Ferragamo but nothing caught my fancy. Also bought a small dinner bag from GUESS for only 25 euro! Haha! Nevermind people saying GUESS bags are not trendy... to me what is important is the confidence of the person carrying it and whether do that person has the status to carry the bag.

Next, there were the Levi's, CK, Diesel and GUESS stores. At first, I was about to give up after trying on about 3 pairs of jeans from Levi's cos they were too loose at the hips. Then on this small corner were the slim cut which most ang mo woman cant wear probably and I found my jeans which cost only 30 euro! Wanted to buy a pair of jeans for Superboy but jeans need to be tried on to see whether is the cut suitable or not. Saw a polo tee but left only the XL sizes and 90% of the tops are long sleeved tee shirts or sweat shirts. When I was about to pay, I spotted this short sleeved lady tee hanging amongst all the long sleeved blouses and quickly grabbed it. In the end, when I went home, I realized the cashier charged me only 1.50 euro instead of 11.50 euro for the top! Haha!! Bought a tee from GUESS, also like the last black piece of size S hanging there. It's a good thing that the ang mo women are mostly big size.

There was this big NIKE and ADIDAS store but mostly it is selling winter clothing. It cost like only 50 euro for a set of very nice track suit. But too bad Singapore is a humid and sunny country. Nevertheless, I found this ADIDAS green top with a small cherry logo on the left side of the top! It was the one and only tee with such a design lying on the rack in the whole shop! This is my favourite buy from Serravalle. Combed the whole of NIKE store twice to find something to buy but to no avail. The bags are pretty neat but luggage space is an issue hence I left NIKE empty handed. Can you dig it? Sigh!

Then we came to the chocolate shop that sells Lindt products and everyone are like rushing for the Pick and Pack. At first I don't want to buy any more chocolate but seeing the mad rush inside, I also picked up 2 empty bags and began to select one choc from each variety and ended up paying about 10 euro for like 20 small chocs?

This Seravalle trip was supposed to be a shopping trip for Superboy's things but I regret to say I could only manage to buy him 2 tee shirts only... L There are simply no short sleeved tops and Superboy has high expectations of the garments he wears; cannot be too loose, color cannot be too bright, neckline cannot be too high, sleeves cannot be too long, etc. Not my fault!