Pasar Tanah Abang, Central Wholesale Clothing - Woven

Gait market located in central Jakarta as a center of textile trade has been started since the year 1735. Although over 270 years old, gait Tanahabang as a trading center of Southeast Asia's largest textile and equipment to survive until now.

Along with the development time, this market continues to adjust to follow the improvement of the times. Since two years ago, Tanahabang Market occupies an 20-story tall building with a 8000 stall. However, this amount will still be increased if the construction of buildings in the surrounding finish.

Type of products sold also vary. Not only textile fabrics, bed linen, and curtains, now wearing apparel, bags and shoes are also available. Over price, the traders kept its wholesale prices. Here, bargaining was not a taboo. No wonder if the market is visited by many women.

Not far from Market Tanahabang, there are now other textile centers namely the Jakarta City Center. Traded goods and equipment Moslem majority. But the market is known as Tasik Market is only busy on Monday and Thursday. On those two days, traders wares at 04:00 pm and close around 10:00 pm.

In addition Tanahabang Market, textile hunters stormed Cipadu Market, Tangerang, Banten. Here for sale a wide range of quality textiles cheaply. Cipadu market is basically a public market. The stalls set up around the year 1990 the local community. Because it did not seem luxurious impression of this market.

A number of traders usually gather the rest of the export of textile factories in Tangerang. Unlike the general textile traders, traders in Cipadu kiloan not sell the way the meter. However, some vendors continue to sell cloth with dimeter. Circulation of money in this market to reach billions of rupiah per day.

Now, growing Cipadu Market. The number of kiosks and miscellaneous merchandise continues to grow increasingly diverse. Not only a meter or kiloan sells textiles, found merchandise textile products like bed linen cloths, pillowcases, or curtains. Fabrics are sold and no longer remaining exports, but imports from China, Korea, and India.

Amid these unfavorable, the presence of imported secondhand clothing designer become citizens for a stylish alternative to the branded clothes. In Makassar, South Sulawesi, where the sale of used clothing is called a claw. The word is short claw seal bags, given clothing purchased by karungan merchants.

Besides in Makassar, many have found the traditional market center claw sales. One of them at Sam Ratulangi Road. Here, a variety of used clothing ranging from shirts, pants, skirts, lingerie up to any sale. Even also sold glasses, watches, belts, and hats.

Buyer thrift was not the only people disadvantaged economic groups only. Melani Subono artist can be said as one fan of clothing that comes from the class can afford. The new singer's second album released this always took hunting clothes on the sidelines of the former preoccupations.
There is no prestige for Melani said in a hunt for used clothing. Melani everyday busy with event organizers to buy used clothing from various parts of the region and abroad. In addition to cheap, clothes are often obtained any famous brand and good quality.