Okay, you are disgusted and might be the type of person who cannot even imagine wearing second hand clothes (except if it’s came from your older sister/brother), you are thinking that the previous owner might have dreadful disease or worst dead. But for me, I don’t have any problem with that. I and my officemates sometimes go to Mandaue just to have ukay-ukay. I don’t know, sometimes I found it more enjoyable than shopping in malls, because there’s the sense of adventure you never know what you get or find.
Dresses that are so stylish, items that you can find that are so much a like in malls but the quality is much nicer and in a very very low price. I remember my first ukay-ukay is a black shirt with blue whale design,it was bought by my mother and it became one of my fav shirt for it was made of cotton and it was very comfortable to wear.
Actually this very year that I started buying my own ukay-ukay clothes, we have a “suki” which is more like an ukay-ukay boutique all items are place in a nice racks with hangers and the place is air-conditioned, compared to the normal ukay-ukay stall in which the clothes are creased piled haggling is not allowed specially the sign in there door says NEW ARRIVAL.
Way back years ago mostly were too embarrassed to admit that they were wearing ukay-ukay. I recalled there was a commercial for laundry soap that made the famous quote “made in UK” referring that she bought her dress from ukay-ukay. In present, ukay-ukay gone far, I noticed even in bangketa, in cart, boutique, even here in the internet like multiply, istorya.net, and cebuclassifieds invaded it.
A cotton shirt got this from ukay-ukay!
Nice!
ha ha ha as long as you will not say anything, who will know?
Posted by chocoporridge at August 4, 2008, 7:01 pm
i was able to work in a government agency that is being highly regarded by businessmen and consumers alike. we don’t have an office uniform but we are mandated to sport a business attire. least they know that most of our wardrobe actually came from ukay-ukay.
even home appliances these days have their ukay-ukay thing.
Posted by jadestone at August 4, 2008, 8:37 am