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Photo 1.1:
Ben Thanh Market in Downtown Ho Chi
Minh City
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Photo 1.2: Map showing the layout of Ben Thanh
Market stalls. Clothing stalls are to the right,
marked in gray. Cloth stalls, shown in red, are
located to the left of the clothing
stalls.
Photo 1.3: A cloth seller in
the central aisle of Ben Thanh Market
Photo 1.4: A Ben Thanh market
cloth seller settles her accounts with a
supplier
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Photo 1.5:
A supplier (standing) asks a seller for
payment on her debt for merchandise which
the seller has taken on installment. The
seller is explaining that business has
been slow, and she can't produce the $10
which the supplier is
demanding.
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Photo 1.6:
A Ben Thanh stall owner displays her
"Levi's" jeans
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Photo 1.7:
To cater to the rising number of
tourists who visit Ben Thanh Market, most
clothing traders now stock t-shirts in
addition to merchandise targeted toward
domestic consumers.
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Photo 1.8: This fabric stall offers 3-5
meter lengths of printed cotton, silk, and
polyester fabrics for women's outfits, as well as
longer lengths of solid poplins for pants and
suits. Most of the fabric is domestically produced,
but some is also imported from China, Korea, and
Taiwan.
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Photo 1.9:
Receiving a phone order in a clothing
stall
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Photo 1.10:
Ben Thanh Market during the busy Tet
shopping season. For the three days before
Tet, the market remains open 24 hours a
day.
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Photo 1.11: A stall selling candy and
mut, or sweetened dried fruit. Mut
sales are extremely brisk in the weeks leading up
to Tet, as people welcome the New Year by giving
sweets as gifts and by keeping some on hand to
offer to visitors.
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