São Paulo Shopping

First of all : BRAS is NOT the plural of bra, ...
it's a whole district east of the center of town where you have shop after shop after shop of wholesale great textile products , mostly made right in the back or upper floor of the shop. In a radius of , say, 500 meters around ground zero , the intersection of Rua Oriente with Rua Miller you will find everything your heart desires in fashionable clothes , blouses , jeans , you name it.....
B U T : it's wholesale , so you have to get minimum 6 items , mostly even 12....( different , don't have to be 12 same items )..
But what's the difference if you can get a dozen blouses for the price you'd spend for two in a boutique..? And just guess what ? The boutique owners in the posh shopping malls just as the clothes store owners from cities hundreds of kilometers away buy their merchandise right here !! My in laws come regularly twice a year like the locust from L.A. and shop till they drop and all shops in Bras are empty like the foliage after the grasshopper visit....... They arrive with 6 suitcases full of stuff for my kids and then fill those suitcases to the gills with bikinis , jeans , everything... Well , their's a big family and there are brothers and sisters and girlfriends and, and, and, and every one wants a brazilian jeans..... So imagine you can return home with quality, tight jeans , costing like 15 U$ each.....
That gives some nice presents to bring from a trip.....

Come with empty suitcases and fill them up in Bras !! For men too... !!!

And this is yet without mentioning shoes ( which to buy in other places...)

São Paulo is not a city with great natural views , monuments , there's no beach .......
But these are the four things to do in São Paulo :
Have your convention here , stay at a wonderfull , first class hotel , go out and eat some of the best food available on the planet and GO SHOPPING !!!!!! ( Night life is also great here but I don't know too much about it...)
Buy textiles , shoes , leather goods , handicraft.... all these are tremendously cheap for foreigners....
( Don't buy electronics.... expensive and always lagging one technological generation behind...)

A pair of jeans in Bras ( 12 minimum) costs about 20 to 25 U$ ( upper quality ) , a blouse between 5 and 15 U$ , a bikini 15 U$ ( the kind that would sell for 90 bucks in the States according to my sister in law... ( and it's only so expensive now because the dollar lost to the Real some 20 % in the past months , otherwise everything would be still 20 % cheaper )

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