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Gastown & Chinatown
Sights | Eating | Drinking & Nightlife | Entertainment | Shopping
SHOPPING
Once lined with tacky souvenir stores, Gastown has been increasingly
colonized by designer boutiques, making this area a downtown rival to
Main St in the indie shopping stakes. While Chinatown's multisensory,
ever-colorful streets used to be more for looking at than actually shop-
ping - how many live frogs do you usually buy? - more and more it's
home to its own cool indie stores, as well as the evocative night market,
which is a summer highlight.
SHOE FRENZY
If you're in Vancouver sometime in early April you may find you start to get itchy
feet. But rather than a sudden desire to hit the road and start traveling, your
tingling toes will be telling you the city's biggest sartorial event for feet is about to
take place. When the Army & Navy OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP ( www.armyandnavy.ca ;
36 W Cordova St, Gastown; 8) department store's annual 12-day shoe sale kicks off,
there's always a long, excited queue of hundreds of locals ready to get in. Those
who've waited in line for hours have the chance to hit - usually at maximum velo-
city - the shiny pyramids of deeply discounted designer footwear from the likes
of Guess, Christian Dior and Jimmy Choo. Delighted shoppers stagger around
with armfuls of must-have shoes, while on-lookers hang in corners, wondering
how they can escape.
ERIN TEMPLETON ACCESSORIES
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( www.erintempleton.com ; 511 Carrall St; 11am-6pm Tue-Sat; Stadium-Chinatown) Known
for recycling leather into hip, supersupple bags, belts, hats and purses, this eponymous
store has a cult following. Erin herself is usually on hand and happy to chat about her
creations (she trained in shoemaking at a London college). They're the kind of must-
have, one-of-a-kind items that are hard to resist, no matter how many bags you already
have back home.
 
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