For many people, Dallas means shopping. The city’s motto, after all, is ‘if it can’t be found in Dallas, it can’t be found anywhere’. This is where
Neiman Marcus, 1618 Main Street, began its fashion business in 1907, as an ‘exclusive woman’s ready-to-wear store’. Today, all manner of big names have gravitated around it, including
Saks Fifth Avenue,
Rodier Paris,
Tiffany & Co and
Lord & Taylor. The huge department store chain
JC Penney also originated in Dallas.
Not content with numerous huge
malls and shopping centers containing all kinds of individual and chain shops, there is now the
Dallas Market Center, just to the northwest of the downtown area, either side of the Stemmons Freeway (I-35). On completion, it was the biggest wholesale trade complex in the world, with its eight different buildings turning over US$7.5 billion in annual retail sales.
Other malls to indulge in some retail therapy are
Galleria, modeled on Milan’s Vittorio Emanuelle and even housing an ice rink, at the north side crossroads of the Dallas North Tollway and the beltway I-635;
NorthPark, an elegant sprawl with stores including
Barneys New York,
Carolina Herrera,
Michael Kors and
Oscar de la Renta; and
Highland Park Village, with its Spanish-inspired design.
Others to look out for near the downtown area are
Crescent,
Inwood Village and
Snyder Plaza. At DFW airport, there is the enormous
Grapevine Mills. The malls are usually open daily. These huge malls are, of course, packed full of restaurants, fast food outlets, entertainments and coffee shops.
On a more human-scale approach to shopping, there are antiques and crafts shops scattered throughout Downtown, as well as in the Uptown neighborhood along McKinney Avenue, which is also good for general browsing. There is a large Farmer’s Market, just west of Downtown, at South Harwood Street and Marilla Street.
Given Texas’ Wild West image, anything to do with cowboys, rodeos and cattle ranching is a typical local gift. Otherwise, the latter day image of the town is big business, especially oil. The two come together in the abiding icon of Southfork Ranch and its infamous resident, JR.
Sales tax is 8.25%.
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