Fashion & Accessories

International designer clothing and fashion brands can most easily be found in Wrocław's shopping malls, though you'll find some clothing brands along the pedestrian streets Świdnica and Oławska. High quality Polish brands include Reserved, Vistula, Wittchen and Tatuum, none of which as you'll notice actually sound Polish, apparently part of a sly, shared business plan to increase marketability. For a more local take on consumerism, do some loitering around the massive clothing market on Plac Zielińskiego (see markets) or visit one of the find secondhand clothing stores marked 'Tania Odzież' (Cheap Clothes) you'll see scattered about the city. These stores range in quality, from items sorted in dishevelled bins to others on actual hangers; many are priced by weight and all have that distinctive embalmed babcia smell.