Buenos Aires is loyal to the big city image offering a wide range of products and prices as well as shopping centers.
Almost in every neighborhood you can find an area, of some size, which offers some special kind of clothes, regional items, antiques or art crafts.
The name of the streets is the best way to identify the shopping tour you want to enjoy.
Cabildo and Santa Fe avenues, in Belgrano and Barrio Norte, respectively, show a huge variety of clothes and shoes.
The long Córdoba Av, between Scalabrini Ortiz and Juan B. Justo, is famous for its national brands outlets.
In the inner streets of Palermo Viejo, in the so called Soho, stores show local designers products, fashionable and trendy clothes, accesories and decor items.
However, in order to reach exclusive ness it is necessary to walk by the Recoleta area, more specifically the Alvear Avenue, whose shop windows show internationally famous brand clothes like Versace, Kenzo, Armani, Luis Vuitton and Gucci, a few steps forward, you can reach Plaza Francia, where most foreing tourists gather in search of various art crafts: from portraits made on the spot until rings and knitted clothes.
On the other hand if the intention is to visit antique houses you can buy in San Telmo or in the Mercado de las Pulgas of Dorrego.
Another Argentine strength are leather items, which can be found, varying in quality and prices, in frot of Plaza San Martin and along Florida Street, in the very center of the city.
If you are looking cheaper trousers, jackets and skirts, in the Chacarita neighborhood, along Murillo Street 600 you can find the “porteña window shop” in the manufacturing of this kind of clothes, wich are also tailormade and on request.