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Hi, it’s Mizuki! Last weekend, I went to Waterloo Premium Outlets, where is 1 hour drive from Syracuse.
Outlet malls are getting popular in Japan as well, but outlet malls in the States are too huge to check everything in 1 day.
You’d better to decide the shops to visit in advance.
I love shopping clothes in the States.
One of the reasons is this – fitting rooms for wheelchair users!
Flat entrance, wide door, and enough space inside for a wheelchair!
This shop is not special.
You will find the same kind of fitting room in another store in another state.
You just need to decide which clothes you want to try on, and ask a sales staff. Then he/she will guide you there.
In Japan, most of fitting rooms are small.
Customers need to take off their shoes.
A small stair step is common at the entrance door.
Well I could still use if I really want to, but it is less comfortable for me to ask a sales staff for help.
I feel stress just to try clothes on.
Therefore I barely try clothes at a fitting room in Japan, then often buy ones which don’t look good on me or don’t fit at all.
In the States, I will try everything I like in a fitting room first, and buy ones which really fit me by checking in the mirror.
The shopping experience is a lot better here!
Wheelchair user can use a fitting room like everyone else can.
This is common in the U.S. I wish it will be the new norm in clothes stores in Japan too in the near future.