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I've found you fruits of sweetest taste and found you
Bunches of duhat growing by the hill,
I've bound your arms and hair with vine and bound you
With rare wildflowers but you are crying still.

I've brought you all the forest ferns and brought you
Wrapped in green leaves cicadas singing sweet,
I've caught you in my arms an hour and taught you
Love's secret where the mountain spirits meet.

Your smiles have died and there is no replying
To all endearment and my gifts are vain;
Come with me, love, you are too old for crying,
The church bells ring and I hear drops of rain.

From "Day on the Farm"
By Luis G. Dato

A patron is rummaging a collection of secondhand shoes in a wagwagan / ukay-ukay store in Baguio City, Philippines. Last year, the country's lawmakers went up in arms against the proposal of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) to tax ukay-ukay stores in Baguio City, Metro Manila and most parts of the country.

Secondhand shoes coming from China and other neighboring countries are dumped in the domestic Philippine market and sold locally at giveaway prices via the ukay-ukay and wagwagan stores. Wagwag is an Ilocano term used to describe items that one has to dust off before purchase

Secondhand Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, Ralph Lauren and other branded luxury bags, cramp the tight spaces of ukay-ukay stores in Baguio City, Philippines. The prices of these bags range from P3,000.00 to as high as P15,000.00. Buyers should be wary that some bags are only imitations of its original counterparts.

Secondhand shoes serve as a background to a vendor in an ukay-ukay shop in Baguio City, Philippines. Local shoe manufacturers lament the sprouting of ukay-ukay stores in many cities in the Philippines which dampened demand for locally made shoes.