Clothes, Ho Chi Minh City

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H&D Tailor provides excellent quality with skilled tailor crew. The master tailor cum owner will give you advice about formal style with you can not make up your mind. The receptionists are really nice and warm. They have a wide range of fabrics from normal to luxurious, so that you can select your favorite easily.

H&D Tailor usually runs special promotion and if you are lucky, you can have a free tie on your purchase.

What to buy: Suit, shirt, blazer, tuxedo & tie for men.
Fabrics are imported from Europe with brand names such as Zegna, Holland & Sherry, Cerrutti, Reda, etc.

What to pay: about $70 USD/shirt including fabrics and labor cost.

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Centrally located and accessible from both Dong Khoi and Nguyen Hue Streets, Lucky Plaza is a relatively modern mini-mall but is currently under renovation and they moved to a temporary area beside the Oscar Hotel in the same row at Nguyen Hue Boulevard. The three floors hold 24 shops and one restaurant. Here you will find everything from cheap toys,Counterfeit Shirts, candy, inexpensive watches and shoes to high quality jewelry and sportswear. Traditional Vietnamese gifts of lacquerware and purses can be bought in several of the shops. The Second floor also houses Russian products (hey russia was once communist too hence they was lots of russian and old soviet goods here!). The top floor consists of a medium range Chinese restaurant with excellent service and traditional ambiance.

It also houses the famous "Bar Underground Basement Lucky Plaza"

What to buy: Counterfeit jeans (polo, abercrombie, nautica, levis, ols navy, etc) for 75,000 to 100,000 VND, T-Shirts for 40,000 to 80,000 VND, Silk Bags starting from 80,000 to 200,000 VND, Lacquer ware starting at 15,000 VND, Paintings starting at 30,000 VND and a lot more!

Opens: 10am-10pm Mon-Thu; 10am-11pm Fri; 9am-11pm Sat & Sun.

What to pay: depends on what you buy, some items are even cheaper than in Benh Thanh or Bin Thay Markets!

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They are a new shop, but giving a good and convenient service especially for tourist people in Saigon

To make the clothes with them, you can contact them by email before you arrive to Saigon to ask for a meeting. Then when you are here, they will come to your hotel for measurement and picking up the fabric.
They can do custom made in both men and women clothes: suit, shirt, dress, pants, coat, Ao Dai, blouse .....

All they need is a picture or a sample of the design which you want to make, they will arrange to deliver the products in the shortest time. Green Longan also provides a high quality sewing service for labels that are happy to provide their own raw materials.

If you don;t have the material yet, don;t worry. They also can bring the sample of the fabric for you to choose. If you still can not find anything you like, you can ask them to go to the fabric market with you to help you choose and bargan.

They can deliver the clothes in 1 - 4 days depends on your scheduel

The price is average, something like 120 usd for a men suit .....

You can contact them today for more information and discount at :

http://www.saigonsewing.com
or email them at: longanfashion@yahoo.com
Hotline: ( +84) 909 6101 85 Miss Anda

What to buy: Custom tailoring in Saigon with Green Longan

What to pay: In cash

This is a nice store near our hotel. Apparently, visiting foreign dignitaries buy their Aodais here.

What to buy: Aodai, the traditional Vietnamese dress. Silk is best.

What to pay: For the quality, the prices here are quite reasonable but higher than other shops in the area.

Saigon Square is about a street away between 2 other tourists' favourite shopping mall (Saigon Square and Ben Thanh Market). Right in front of the entrance is a motorcycle walkway park where the locals park their motorcycles and is managed "valet" for parking and retreival of their motorcycles. We had to manoeurve our ways through the motorcycles.

Once inside, there are shops after shops selling clothes, bags, shoes, etc. which you would be also be able to find in Ben Thanh Market.

Advice given by our local hotel people is that you need to bargain aggressively on the prices offered.

What to pay: Less then half the offered price

Saigon Center Mall is a higher price place selling all kinds of goods, clothes, furniture. When we were there on 24-Dec morning, there wasn't that much shoppers around. Branded goods are available here. From what we were briefed by our hotel reception, prices here are fixed.

It ended up we didn't purchase anything from this Mall but patronise the Terrace Cafe for food and drinks.

I found this shop on Dong Khoi st in Ho Chi Minh City recently, its the main old street in the city and this place is a gem. Its on the first floor so you have to go through a little alleyway and up some stairs but once you get there its beautiful. the owners have taken an old french building and refurbed it to be as if it were original back in the 20/30's. Its got everything in one space, a cafe serving good coffee and tea along with some super sandwiches etc, to the side of the cafe is an art gallery and then the space opens up into a big contemprary fashion store. It really is beautifully done and very original!

What to buy: there is all sorts from mens and ladies clothing to cool stuff for kids, and even fixed wheel bikes and cool accessories. I loved the brands they carried and the prices were great too. There is some real creative local designers too.

What to pay: these are imported brands but the prices are reasonable and in accordance with the western world. The cafe however is one of the cheapest western places i've visited you're talking about 40,000 VND - $2 USD for a good cafe latte!

Would NOT recommend Phi Phi Fashion, 268 Le Thanh Ton. It's near New World Hotel, District 1.

Got a suit and 2 shirts made there in April 2010 for £125. Despite it being 'made to measure', the first fitting was miles out.

The shirt collar was too loose and when the seamstress meassured it, it was an inch too large! Then she had the audacity to suggest repositing the collar button rather than resizing the collar! The sleaves were also too long.

The trousers were far too tight, and the jacket too loose.

After the second fitting, the fit still wasnt great but there wasnt time to readjust everything again. There were also rust stains on the shirts around the button holes and pocket - i was assured 'they would come out in the wash'.

The kicker came when i returned to the hotel and noticed that the jacket lining was too thin and you could see through it and see all the threadends and raw edges! All in all, once you take it away and get a closer look you start to notice all the flaws in workmanship and quality.

On the next leg of my trip to Hong Kong I went to a reputable tailor instead, paid a bit more (around £300) but got an amazing suit and shirts in one fitting. In summary, you get what you pay for!

What to buy: Nothing!

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This shop and tailor has excellent value and quality for money. You can order any kind of clothes there. You can choose between many different designs and fabrics. The staff speaks english and is very friendly.

The shop is located in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City easily reachable from the areas with many hotels and shopping opportunities.

What to buy: Especially suits there are high quality, and your suits (or other kinds of clothes) will be ready for fitting within one day, and completed within a few days.

What to pay: The price is very reasonable. The price for a for example a suit is 120-180 USD depending on the fabric.

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Cao Minh is one of the biggest and the most well known tailor’s in Vietnam, specializes in hand-made all kinds of European styles for men and women. With a huge range of fabric choices, unique designs and over 60 years experience of workmanship will definitely meet all your needs and satisfaction.
A title “Standard Tourism Service”, issued by Ho Chi Minh Tourism Department guarantees a competitive price, high quality products and the best service. Most of Cao Minh’s customers are high rank of local people and travelers all over the world. Currently, Cao Minh is also providing pilot uniform for Vietnam Airlines.

What to buy: SUITS, SHIRTS, PANTS

What to pay: 250 USD - 500 USD