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OurFavoite Shoe & LeatherShops
Boniface,
Calle Florida 598 and Parera
145. Great shoes for men and women;
Botticelli,
Calle Paraguay 693, Avenida
Quintana 488 and Santa Fe 1756.
Emilio Bianco
, Calle Florida 660, 755
and 898, and the Alto Palermo Shopping
Center. Custom-made shoes for men and
women are featured here.
Hedres
, Avenida Santa Fe 778 (near
Plaza San MartÃn), represents Christian
Dior in Buenos Aires and has highly
styled boots and shoes.
Fur Salons
Furs are both stunning and excellent buys in
Buenos Aires. If you shop in the Austral sum-
mer you may even find a great bargain.
Furry Choices
Native to Argentina is the
nutria
, a glossy
expensive-looking fur which belongs to the
otter family and compares favorably with
mink. The nutria's long outer hairs, though
waterproof, are bristly to the touch and not
as elegant or as soft as the shorter hairs.
There are two varieties of
Argentine fox
:
the rust-colored fox from Tierra del Fuego
and the gray Patagonian fox. Not to be over-
looked,
minks
are also raised for fur.
