Tag: Fabric Market

  • The Fabric Market, Part Trois

    The Fabric Market, Part Trois

    I have been a very absent bloggist this month, which can be blamed partly on my faulty immune system combined with Shanghai’s post-Expo surge in atmospheric particles (record highs in smog, it seems!), and partly (mostly) on Nanowrimo, which has sucked up an average of 1667 of my creative words every day. I have been…

  • (101 Things About Shanghai) The ShiLiuPu Fabric Market Part 2

    (101 Things About Shanghai) The ShiLiuPu Fabric Market Part 2

    I got my stuff. Oh, god but it’s lovely.                 Everything here was made by Shirley in shop #216 in the fabric market at 168 DongMen Road in Shanghai. She’s awesome.

  • (101 Things About Shanghai) The Fabric Market

    (101 Things About Shanghai) The Fabric Market

      One of the more precarious aspects about living abroad has been finding clothes to cover my body. In Turkey, I discovered that my arms, legs and torso were significantly longer than the average Turk of my hip-waist measurements so all my shirt cuffs ended about an inch shy of my wrists (mighty cold in…