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Ukay-Ukay is very famous to every Pinoy even to rich people.
UKAY UKAY means HALUKAY" or to dig-up.
Ukay Ukay/ Ukayan originally can be found in Baguio City which is the Summer Capital of the Philippines located at the northern part of Luzon.
I, Myself can really prove how Ukay Ukay works. I am not a fashionista, but I got my own style. Sometimes jologs or my outfit is out of the tune.
I SWEAR ! a heaven of many imported sweaters, jackets, and other RTWs.
Stores like this can save almost 50-80% of a person's budget from buying clothes, shoes, and other things. Although many people do not really rely on Ukay Ukay because of many factors, this place greatly help especially those
who want to save and purchase the shoes/ bag items they desire.
SAVE MORE!
Clothes, Pants, Blouses, dresses, shoes, bags, stuff toys, and other things can be bought for almost half of the original price from malls.
Example, a P500.00 can only buy a t-shirt from malls. But in Ukay Ukay, from 200- 250 pesos you can purchase a shirt/ blouse. The prices of these items ranging from P20-P200 (if it is clearance sale) - P200- 800 (regular prices) -P200 P1,500 (for new arrivals).
MORE CHOICES OF CLOTHES, BAGS, SHOES, ETC.
Clothes varies from jackets, sweaters, blouses, skirts, long skirts, dresses, shoes, boots, slippers, bags, and etc. These choices will not only fill your eyes with happiness but also makes you to select your desired item type.
If you are a cosplayer/ person with own style in clothing, this place is for you.
Pants and upper garments of different colors are available, corsets and undies too, imported handbags, shoulder bags, bakcpacks, pouches, wallets are displayed, and blouses with different styles and designs varies a lot.
IMPORTED ITEMS
Ukay Ukay items mostly came from the US, asian countries, and European Countries. 80-100% of UKay UKay items are imported and original.
RARE ITEMS
If you will compare the items and clothes from malls to Ukay Ukay, items from malls are removed after some time. This means, every time there is a new trend in fashion, the items are brought back to the manufacturer / put into SALE.
But in Ukay Ukay, items from 70's up to now can possibly be in sight.
Checkered pants, laced skirts, gothic clothes, vintage shoes and shirts , bags, and kitchen stuffs, dresses of all kinds and almost all.
Disadvantages of Ukay Ukay
CLEANLINESS OF ITEMS
In Ukay Ukay, items are received by the store in boxes being shipped from other countries. Since these clothes are not 100% clean, there is a great chance that bacteria and viruses accumulates every item. Even the items passed to sanitation inspection/ sprayed with disinfectants, these clothes are second- handed and worn and touched by different people.
Some items smell bad and almost all the items of RTWs have the same odor.
So, after purchasing an item, wash it thoroughly before wearing.
LIMITED SIZES, COLORS, and STYLES of ITEMS
Sizes for clothes, shoes, and other wearables are limited.
In ukay ukay, sometimes there is only one size of a shirt/blouse or pants, and no more other sizes are available. the shoe sizes and colors are also limited. if there are a lot of boots from the ukay ukay stores, mostly i observed there is only one color, one size, and one style for each. variety of rubber shoes, leather shoes, slippers, and sandals has only one styles, colors, and sizes.
CONDITION OF ITEMS
This is the biggest issue among the ukay ukay items. If you have found a good ukay ukay, you may have purchase items in good conditions. with complete buttons, fixed zippers, and the fabric is not damaged. but if you are unlucky enough, the negative sides of the items may appear. maybe, you have bought shoes with broken soles and detached leather/ heels, blouses with damaged buttons, shirts with broken buttons, pants with no zippers, and sometimes dirty skirts with fading colors.
As a Conclusion, for me UKAY UKAY is Good for people with a few budget, good sense of original style in clothing, and a determination to travel in metro to search Ukay Ukay stores and dig up clothes for long hours.
