🇻🇳 TIPS to shop like an EXPERT in HCM 🦋

Looking for some cute new staple and statement pieces for your wardrobe? Let’s jump right in to some tips to help you spend big bucks in this shopping haven.

📍 26 Ly Lu Trong has the most local brands concentrated in one location

✨ DON’T MAKE THIS ROOKIE MISTAKE: The New Playground is located here, some brands are in the basement (Mainly streetwear/shirts) BUT in the Apartment Building ABOVE (Past the alley with many paintings) is a hidden treasure trove of stores

📍 Võ Văn Tần Street (elegant styles)

📍 Tran Quang Diệu Street (young & chic styles)

💸 Price wise most pieces were between 200-350k vnd ($15-$20) On the higher end, it would be 500k~ ($30) and up. It’s not exactly cheap (vs some Taobao stores) but the quality and design to price ratio is great.

💡TIP 1: RESEARCH IN ADVANCE

✔️ Brands are the most active on shopee, instagram and facebook (Google reviews/timings are not that reliable)

✔️ They have a much wider range of clothes online

✔️There are so many stores, if you’re in a rush make a shortlist

A non-exhaustive list of shops in D1/D3

🍬Sweet/Cute/Girly🍬

- @Annie.store - $$

- @Dearjose - $$$

- @Rubies - $$$

- @Dottie - $$

- @Kiddo - $$

- @goutdejoun - $$

🖤Simple/Basics/Monochrome🤍

- @Fleur.studio - $$$

- @Libeworkshop - $$

- @janet.studio -$$

🦋Unique/Classy🦋

- @reply1987 - $$$

- @ete.project - $$$ luxurious, satin office wear and evening dresses. They have door-to-door shipping to SG for ~$10

- @youonboutique - $$ 100% linen

👚Thrifting 👕

- @Vintage Hearts - $$ Drink a shot, 15% off…2 shots…20% off…

- @mayhem vintage - $$$ Selection is beautifully curated (some consigned)

💡TIP 2: INSTANT SHIPPING

✔️If you like something from the store but cannot make up your mind on the spot or they don’t have it in store, TRY THIS HACK 🌻

✔️ A piece I liked was out of my size in store but available on webstore. The staff asked me to purchase it online and get it delivered in 3 days 👩🏻‍💻. HOWEVER, my local friends told me to DM them about instant shipping and I got my product delivered to the hotel within 45 MINS of making payment… SPEEDY! ⌛️

✔️HOW IT WORKS; 1) send them product details, 2) transfer money to the bank acc they provide (I used wise), 3) pay the delivery fee on demand to the Bike rider (~30k vnd) 🎁 VOILA your present to yourself.

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