China - Shanghai - Women Shopping for Cosmetics

Young Shanghainese women talk while shopping for cosmetics at Parksons, one of Shanghai's best known department stores. This store caters for Western tastes in anything from clothes, to cosmetics, food or electric goods. In such a westernised city, where years ago fashion and modernity did not exist, these places are a Mecca for the young, sometimes affluent youth. Cosmetics are comparatively expensive in Shanghai as in the west, despite the average salary being many times lower. Yet, there is a massive hunger for western goods of all kinds.

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Young Shanghainese women talk while shopping for cosmetics at Parksons, one of Shanghai's best known department stores. This store caters for Western tastes in anything from clothes, to cosmetics, food or electric goods. In such a westernised city, where years ago fashion and modernity did not exist, these places are a Mecca for the young, sometimes affluent youth. Cosmetics are comparatively expensive in Shanghai as in the west, despite the average salary being many times lower. Yet, there is a massive hunger for western goods of all kinds.