Italy, 50s. You wanted a dress? Mending? Shirt? Vai to the tailor! A lot, at affordable prices. Now, apart from the lady who "will shorten the pants" to get a dress is almost always an area, and price, from "haute couture".
China, 2007. Stephen began working in Shanghai without going to Italy. Urge the purchase of clothes (yes, jacket / tie every day). Wage issues aside, the Chinese are strange: it seems that those who assume that anyone who studies the bounty is as tall as me or even chubby (you know, business dress, dinners, good life). Thus, among the clothes in the store, the choice is relentlessly swirl effect of the jacket or shirt. This explains why many who see in the street have their sleeves inch height, as a vicious circle.
However, last week I went to the legendary "Fabric Market" (Market of the tissues). Hundreds of shops selling cloth and take measures. Typical example, myself, I chose a shop that I trusted, I browsed over some magazines available on site and pointed to a model of international tailor something that I liked, I'm left to measure, I chose the fabric and details. I had an interesting team of consultants, including my roommate who is a kind of tissue engineering and his colleague who is more on design (lucky right?). I also ordered two shirts (same procedure when made). Sunday pick-up and I see that it came out. Not all tailors have the same quality, or are good at everything, we must find them. In any case, leafing through a newspaper and Armani model to wager that you will sew on this measure is an 'emotion China to try.

The Chinese are ahead, no doubt about it. Here are the DVD "entertainment media" much, much more than here. Moreover, when it goes well we manage with 20 euros ... You can call an accessible means? For goodness sake, I will not return to the battle of youth against the SIAE and the major record labels, I just say that there is myopia.
It is extremely interesting to go back home at night, wondering "what?" And be between the "buy a DVD." From them we vacation, perhaps. I started to buy more than anyone since I've been to Shanghai often step in front of more than one of the countless shops ... One in particular is so provided to be able to find some classic Italian films and older.
I managed to find the third series of Dr House, unfortunately there were only 10 episodes on 5 DVDs, so I am asking you to change it back to the store because I thought the series was complete. I came home with five and one more. Factor determining the price for sure, every time the Chinese government makes a move more than an "advertising" closing major industries of the false, but little or nothing in the micro, in stores. Moreover, calculating the density in a mile radius from my house, I have millions in China. Speaking with a Chinese friend of mine told me that why not go all the way so people are looking at home movies ... political fiction aside, it's still an industry worth millions.
Again, almost perfect competition (no, not the sign): single price RMB 7 to DVD (0.70 Eurocent). Films, programs (including Windows Vista Ultimate operating), games do you think the price is. For those who see the just compensation to the artists, adequate remuneration of the major motion picture, hard box DVD reason enough to buy the originals, prices range between 20 and 40 RMB (2-4 Euro).

You always start from the time say. Thus, hibernating from the table without functioning heating, damp from the rain outside and the relative scarcity of Taxi talking with the cashier asking ministagione lights on the end of the monsoon minipioggerelline (no, I do not know any of these words in Chinese, but you understand).
Here it is, here it is the phrase that gives you that bit of cultural lessons daily, resulted from an "is really different from Beijing, not dry, there's always the sun, no dust, it's raining." The answer, said with the naturalness of phrases like "the earth is round" was: "Here we are in the south, is different from the north." But as I wonder and wonder in the south, here we are in the middle of China (north-south)!
So remains immune to the bales of Chinese provinces (regions like ours) (to avoid dangerous macro-regions), immune to the phenomenal invention of the 55 recognized minorities (to avoid a united front federal / centrifugal) remains strong in Chinese culture the idea of South- north. You know, the West has never counted no cost (between peasants and the deserts, excluding natural resources), but here the center does not exist. North of the Yangtze, south of the Yangtze (Yellow River), this is the rule. Needless to say, in the minds of the inhabitants of the South, from Shanghai to Guangzhou to HongKong neoacquisto, they have made ​​China what it is: rich, developed the pivot of world trade. The North is good to speak and to copy ideas, of course drafts. The Centre ... No, the center does not exist like I said!
Wanting to be apoliticamente satirical paraphrase the punch line "mandiamoli unions so they stop" so often heard, I would toss in a ... export Follini to explain?