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Clothes shopping
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Today the clothes industry still accounts for more than half Troyes' employment, and buying
clothes from the factory
is one of the town's chief attractions: designer-label clothes can be bought at half the normal shop price. Espace Belgrand in rue Belgrand, off bd du 14-Juillet, has quite a number (Mon 2-7pm, Tues-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 9am-7pm); rues A?mile-Zola and des Bas TrAİvois are also worth a wander. Or you can go out to the manufacturers on the outskirts, where dozens of factory shops sell clothes, shoes and leather goods designed for everyone, from Nike to Laura Ashley and Yves St-Laurent to Jean-Paul Gaultier. The best array is in the four giant sheds of Marques Avenue, 114 bd de Dijon, St-Julien-les-Villas (Mon 2-7pm, Tues-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 9.30am-7pm), south of the city on the N71 to Dijon. At Pont-Ste-Marie, to the northeast of Troyes along the D960 to Nancy, there's Le Centre des Marques, on rue Marc-Verdier, and McArthur Glen, on rue Danton, both with the same hours as Espace Belgrand. Buses for the outlets on the outskirts of town depart from the bus station by MarchAİ les Halles. Other useful information
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