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| One of the smaller wedding dress shops |
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| Red is the color in Chinese weddings, even though they are getting more westernized |
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| More costume than something I would wear to a wedding |
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| A cheaper dress store |
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| A shop for Chinese women's taste |
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| This was one of the side streets with wedding shops |
Suzhoussa, Tiger Hillin
vieressä on isot häämarkkinat. Itse asiassa koko lähialue on täynnä kauppoja,
jotka myyvät hääasuja, mekkoja, asusteita jne. Pari vuotta sitten kävin Tiger
Hillin pagodaa katsomassa, mutta silloin en huomannut näitä liikkeitä.
Liikkeitä on satoja, jos ei jopa enemmän, joten jos sinne oikeasti menee
metsästämään asua, tarvitsee enemmän aikaa kun vain päivän. Asuja löytyy joka
hintaluokasta. Kalliimmissa paikoissa mekot maksoivat 200-500 euron paikkeilla,
kun taas muista paikoista sai hyvän asun 30 euron hintaan. Hääpukujen hintoja
en katsonut, mutta olen lukenut että niitä saa kaikissa hintaluokissa.
Olin kuvitellut, että
täältä ei länsimaalaiseen makuun mitään löydy, mutta olin iloisesti yllättynyt,
että monessa kaupassa oli hienoja pukuja. Olisin ostanut paljon hiuskoristeita,
mikäli olisin varautunut paremmin tähän matkaan. Kävimme sekä hienommissa liikkeissä,
että rähjäisten kujien varrella olevissa paikoissa. Hääpukujen lisäksi täältä
löytyisi vaikka mitä pukuja naamiaisia varten.
In Suzhou, next to Tiger Hill, there is a
large wedding market. I had been to the Tiger Hill pagoda some years ago, but
at that time I had not noticed all the stores selling wedding related stuff.
There were more than hundred stores selling dresses and accessories, and if I
would have been seriously looking for something, I would have needed more than
just a couple of hours. Some shops sold high-end looking dresses, as others
looked quite cheap. The good ones cost something like 2000-3000rmb and the
cheaper ones you could get for just some 100-200 rmb. I didn’t check the prices
of the wedding dresses, but I’m sure there will be some in any price category.
I had
imagined that there would only be dresses for the Chinese consumers taste, but
I was surprised that there were many things that I liked. Especially all the
hair decorations were something that I would have bought a lot of, if I would
have prepared better for the trip. Some of the shops were more mall like, and
other were located on small side streets. You could even find costumes for Halloween,
as everything you could imagine was on sale here. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures in any of the high-end shops, as they were quite beautiful.
