For those lucky few with money to spend Argentina is a shopping paradise, with high quality, sophisticated goods on sale for silly prices by European or North American standards. Leather goods are naturally a favourite purchase with all the steaks on tables out there, but also silver and gold jewellery, wonderful antiques and silverware in the San Telmo area, designer clothing in Palermo Viejo, and Avenida Alvear or Santa Fe for just about anything.
Guys may be especially interested in leather jackets and trainers, girls in matching shoe/handbag combinations.
And don't forget to ask for a bill and tax receipt [cheque de reintegro] for big ticket items so when you leave Argentina you'll get up to 16% of the 21% tax back at the airport's puesto de pago.
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