Marche Kermel
Near the city centre.
Islam Couture/ Embroidery
Dakar has some amazing and amazingly expensive stores specialised in haute-couture, embroidered traditional west african muslim clothes.
Marche HLM
A smaller market geared primarily towards fabric vendors, marche hlm is slightly less crazy than sandaga. hundreds of options for fabric that you can buy and then get tailored into perfectly fitting traditional senegalese wear if you will be in dakar for awhile, ask a senegalese person who his or her tailor is, and go there. a little less convenient for travellers who will only be staying a week. most vendors won't sell less than 3 to 6 metres of fabric. a reasonable price is 1000cfa/metre.
Marche Sandaga
Madness. a decrepit concrete structure that has - despite appearance - three levels of activity: meat and vegetable stalls on the main floor, fish in the basement dungeon and - surprise - restaurant stalls on the roof. you will need to brave the crumpled stairs and step around guys cleaning dead chicken to make it up. around the market building a sprawling network of stalls offer everything from copied music cds, manchester united shirts, electronic gadgets and islamic books - but be aware the hawkers can be very aggressive. the place is also famous for pickpockets, so take only the amount of money you need and keep it in a safe place.