What's your favourite shop?

I chanced upon a DFS the other day which had lots of comfortable seating. As luck would have it, they also appeared to be holding a sale.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

Sydenham DIY.

Posted over 2 years ago by Mamfer

Singular? Are you mad man?

I love:

The cosmetics hall in Liberty

Sugar Bag Blue on my high street cos it sells girly sparkle

Heals’ bed linen department (over priced but over lovely)

Fopp (ridiculously stupid organisation inside but it has all the things I want and like)

Villandry, a nice food shop that sells things in good packaging near Great Portland Street

The Jigsaw shoe and bag store on South Molton Street

Whistles. Any.

That book shop on Marylebone High Street that sells travel books. Can’t remember the name. Dunstalls or something like that?

Shoe shop called Mistress in Covent Garden

The cheese shop in Pimlico just off the high street

Myla. Any. Very pretty and lovely things

Designer’s Guild

Paper chase top floor. It is full of the most gorgeous stationery and paper and glitter and beautifulness.

The reason why is I love stuff. Girly, sparkly, pretty, soft, fluffy, cute, gorgeous stuff.

Posted over 2 years ago by Chez

I was trying to be restrained, but I’ll join in now.

Top Shop, Heal’s, Hatchards, the Transport Museum shop on Covent Garden, Joy, any branch of Space NK, Crabtree and Evelyn…..

Posted over 2 years ago by Mamfer

Oh bloody hell. Everyone else went for sarcastic answers. Alright, I love the Homebase at Wandsworth Town. I do, actually. I bought my shower curtain there. I won’t be leaving that behind when I move out of my one bedroom flat which has just been valued at £300K so there is no way I can buy it anymore.

Feckers!

Posted over 2 years ago by Chez

I wasn’t being sarcarstic- I really DO love Sydenham DIY. They have everything you can possibly ever want (in the way of DIY, obviously- they don’y have scented candles or nice pans)

Posted over 2 years ago by Mamfer

Favourite online shop is Howies. They do the best jeans I have ever owned and they are made from organic material. Well worth the money.

Try their tomboy jeans:

http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/23/25/

Also they have furnished me with two of my favourite t-shirts. They reflect the main passions in my life:

Passion 1: http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/392/7/

Passion 2: T shirt with Word Dept written on it.

Lovely. Ah. Right.

Posted over 2 years ago by Chez

Urban Outfitters.

I refuse to feel ashamed that I have chosen a clothes shop and that it is on Oxford Street.

Posted over 2 years ago by Carla

I always feel a bit like a traitor to my gender to admit that I hate shopping, but I do, which is why I like Asda in Southgate, as I can get basically everything I ever want there. And the staff are always cheerful, and I know Asda has a downmarket reputation, but it’s nice and cheap and convenient.
For a shop that’s abit more interesting I’ll nominate Stanfords, the map shop. (maps seems to be the theme of the day).
Despite the fact I very rarely make trips outside of my own post-code, I love maps, and have bought a couple of lovely atlases, and a BIG world map and a GLOBE in Stanfords.

Posted over 2 years ago by mindybathshebajolene

Phonica. Proper old school dance music vinyl store, complete with more-or-less snotty assistants and stacks of DJs surreptitiously peering over each others’ shoulders to see what one another are buying.

Hope & Greenwood. Retro sweet shop in E Dulwich that sells all kinds of classic sweeties by the quarter, and also the best ice cream I have ever eaten bar none – particularly their champane & strawberries ice cream.

Posted over 2 years ago by Knid

Robert Dyas. Honourable mention to the local ironmongers/hardware store in New Malden High Street which is only one shop wide, as it were, but which stocks more stuff than B&Q. And the owner knows where it is and what it does. And he has at least 15 welcome mats outside.

Not sure about clothes shops for blokes of a certain age. I refuse to shop in or wear anything that bears the word ‘Urban’, Next is shit and crowded, surf shops are taking the piss, and River Island…I don’t know actually. Sounds a bit too groovy for me.

Don’t tell me my future is with M&S. Oh dear God.

What’s this bloody map here for? Ah, it shows London. Wondered what the common theme linking all these threads was.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

You sound like a Paul Smith guy Mr Brave New Malden. Reiss?

I have it on good authority that you are a silver fox…

Posted over 2 years ago by Chez

this is not precisely my favourite shop, but because you mentioned nice-smelling shops, i have to say that just walking into the tea shop in covent garden and inhaling is very calming of a lunchtime.

Posted over 2 years ago by mokuska

Muji, Liberty’s beauty department and Tatty Divine. And Make Mine, the sandwich shop.

Posted over 2 years ago by mollusk

Monmouth Coffee, Neals Yard Cheese shop, the mini-market in the Japan centre, Divertimenti, John Lewis, Books for Cooks, and the Spice Shop opposite it, Persephone books, Fopp, Muji, Lush, the Ginger Pig, Garcia & Sons on Ladbroke Grove, the White Company, and that swanky market-styled Sainsburys in Pimlico. I am clearly a rubbish girl, as I’m not too bothered about clothes shops, but I’ll travel all the way across town for a decent butcher…

Posted over 2 years ago by babybat

Oxfam on Marylebone High St as it has a great book selection and I’ve found some lovely pictures in there before.

Oh and Top Shop too. And What the Bultler Wore on Lower Marsh -http://www.whatthebutlerwore.co.uk/

And the deli (Camia?) on Stoke Newington Church Street. And Space.NK apothecary. But those two are just for window shopping/dribbling over at the moment.

Posted over 2 years ago by Bobble

I would’ve said Sister Ray on Berwick Street but it’s no longer there… how about the sausage shop next door?

Posted over 2 years ago by Ian

Andy’s Guitars next to Foyle’s. Bollocks to Denmark Street snobbery.

Gamestation in Lewisham because I can’t resist browsing for random survival horror games and the staff make me laugh.

Muji because I like saying the word even if I don’t buy anything.

Gosh Comics for my random comic needs.

Posted over 2 years ago by yossarian

I second BNM. I love Robert Dyas. After that it’s probably Daunt – any of the branches.

Posted over 2 years ago by archie

Wilkinsons in Wood Green. You can get everything in Wilkinsons, and all for cheaper than anywhere else.

Posted over 2 years ago by Simone