I took a stroll around the Stresa Friday market with an eye toward Christmas gifts. Here are just a few of the items I found there:  

A great variety of women's coats and jackets in all of this year's styles, at market prices. If you have forgotten a warm enough jacket, or misjudged how the temperatures would be here, or just want some fun extra jackets for yourself or gifts, these are perfect.

And the guys are not left out of this either:

Lots of choices for keeping cold toes warm:

Simple snowflakes on the bottom of socks...

Or why not really get into the Christmas spirit with some of these?:

My favorite, little table-sized live trees decorated with a few tiny boxes or fake snow: