Shopping in London

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helen_l

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I'm heading to London this weekend and hoping to do just a little shopping! ;) I've been a few times before but always stuck to Oxford Street and the usual high street stores. This time around though I would love to visit some smaller, independent stores with more unusual and different things. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
Spitalfields Market (I love the place)
Wink (Nr Old Street)
No-One (of all places Kingsland Rd) Stocks PPQ and similar brands
Hoxton Boutique (Hoxton)
Michiko Koshino (Possible the best shop in the world) (Broadwick Street)
Behave (Floral Street)
Pauric Sweeney (off Old Street)
Preen (Portobello Road)
 
Covent Garden have some good shops.

Fornarina
Concrete (Uber Cool)
Duffer
loads of little ones on the cobblestone street, not sure of names
 
Ooh. I'll join in.

Question I've always had - where's a good area for shopping aside from the obvious places we (like most tourists :lol:) always go in London? (Oxford/Regent/Bond Sts., Kensington High St, Covent Garden, Knightsbridge)

I mean a place where there's a concentrated area of shops... hopefully with many of them different from the usual Phil Green pantheon.
 
Morbyd said:
Ooh. I'll join in.

Question I've always had - where's a good area for shopping aside from the obvious places we (like most tourists :lol:) always go in London? (Oxford/Regent/Bond Sts., Kensington High St, Covent Garden, Knightsbridge)

I mean a place where there's a concentrated area of shops... hopefully with many of them different from the usual Phil Green pantheon.
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Sorry we like to keep our best shops secret so they're not over-run with tourists :spank: :lol:
 
Morbyd said:
Ooh. I'll join in.

Question I've always had - where's a good area for shopping aside from the obvious places we (like most tourists :lol:) always go in London? (Oxford/Regent/Bond Sts., Kensington High St, Covent Garden, Knightsbridge)

I mean a place where there's a concentrated area of shops... hopefully with many of them different from the usual Phil Green pantheon.
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There are some very cool little shops around the backstreets between soho and carnaby street I've found, although I'm always too broke from buying music stuff to be able to afford anything :lol:
 
I'm heading down in a couple of weeks and I need to plan a route for the wife properly! Last time we walked from charing cross road all the way up oxford street through portobello and through Notting Hill.

And then it rained.But the wife enjoyed herself.

Which is strange as she usually gets tired walking to the end of the garden :D

We're going to the following shops so far: Topshop - (of course - my wife's church), Selfridges, Harrods (cos we're northern yokels and it's christmas), Liberty's (for house stuff) and that's as far as I've got, it's a train in and train out on one day job, so i want a few hours to chill out before we head back to the grim barren north with tales of the big city and how we bumped into the queen :lol: .
 
You should pop over to Covent Garden as well and also do one of the Markets. I can't pimp Spitalfields enough :lol:
 
MARKB said:
I'm heading down in a couple of weeks and I need to plan a route for the wife properly! Last time we walked from charing cross road all the way up oxford street through portobello and through Notting Hill.

And then it rained.But the wife enjoyed herself.

Which is strange as she usually gets tired walking to the end of the garden :D

We're going to the following shops so far: Topshop - (of course - my wife's church), Selfridges, Harrods (cos we're northern yokels and it's christmas), Liberty's (for house stuff) and that's as far as I've got, it's a train in and train out on one day job, so i want a few hours to chill out before we head back to the grim barren north with tales of the big city and how we bumped into the queen :lol: .
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If you start off at Selfridges, go down Oxford Street before it gets too busy, then onto Top Shop (allow 3 hours in there :lol: ), down to Liberty's, then do Carnaby Street and Covent Garden (there's a few good one-off shops down there), then jump on Picadilly Line to Knightsbridge for Harrods and if you're in Knightsbridge you may as well pop into Harvey Nicks.......then jump on either the number 9 or 10 bus to High Street Kensington (we normally walk from Knightsbridge but it depends how weary you're feeling by this stage :lol: ;) ), then finish with the short walk (or tube ride if you're on your last legs) to Notting Hill and catch the end of Portobello and the vintage shops down there.

A lovely relaxing day :lol: ;)
 
Barbie said:
If you start off at Selfridges, go down Oxford Street before it gets too busy, then onto Top Shop (allow 3 hours in there :lol: ), down to Liberty's, then do Carnaby Street and Covent Garden (there's a few good one-off shops down there), then jump on Picadilly Line to Knightsbridge for Harrods and if you're in Knightsbridge you may as well pop into Harvey Nicks.......then jump on either the number 9 or 10 bus to High Street Kensington (we normally walk from Knightsbridge but it depends how weary you're feeling by this stage :lol: ;) ), then finish with the short walk (or tube ride if you're on your last legs) to Notting Hill and catch the end of Portobello and the vintage shops down there.

A lovely relaxing day :lol: ;)
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How horrendous. That gives me the willies. 8O Department stores are even worse than the big Topshop. Why are they always so hot? If I go to try anything on I'm a big red flustered heap after two minutes in the changing room. :lol:
 
Barbie said:
If you start off at Selfridges, go down Oxford Street before it gets too busy, then onto Top Shop (allow 3 hours in there :lol: ), down to Liberty's, then do Carnaby Street and Covent Garden (there's a few good one-off shops down there), then jump on Picadilly Line to Knightsbridge for Harrods and if you're in Knightsbridge you may as well pop into Harvey Nicks.......then jump on either the number 9 or 10 bus to High Street Kensington (we normally walk from Knightsbridge but it depends how weary you're feeling by this stage :lol: ;) ), then finish with the short walk (or tube ride if you're on your last legs) to Notting Hill and catch the end of Portobello and the vintage shops down there.

A lovely relaxing day :lol: ;)
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Note to self: go to the gym twice a day before going shopping with Babs in two weeks :? :lol: :lol:
 
Beckiboo said:
Is that your normal Saturday routine Babs?! :lol:
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:lol: Not regularly but if me and Tom are going for a big shop then we have been known to follow that path :lol: Tom loves it as you can imagine :lol: He's normally ok til he gets to High St Ken and Notting Hill, then he's ready to divorce me :lol:
 
Barbie said:
If you start off at Selfridges, go down Oxford Street before it gets too busy, then onto Top Shop (allow 3 hours in there :lol: ), down to Liberty's, then do Carnaby Street and Covent Garden (there's a few good one-off shops down there), then jump on Picadilly Line to Knightsbridge for Harrods and if you're in Knightsbridge you may as well pop into Harvey Nicks.......then jump on either the number 9 or 10 bus to High Street Kensington (we normally walk from Knightsbridge but it depends how weary you're feeling by this stage :lol: ;) ), then finish with the short walk (or tube ride if you're on your last legs) to Notting Hill and catch the end of Portobello and the vintage shops down there.

A lovely relaxing day :lol: ;)
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Thanks Babs! that's a great help!
 
Just want to say thanks for all the help. Had a brilliant time in London. Went to a few exhibitions, saw The Producers and did some general sight-seeing!! But the highlight of my trip...Portobello. Is fantastic! Bought some really nice dresses, bags and jewellery. Really liked Carnaby street as well as thats the type of shopping I'm most used to! Looking forward to my next trip over already!
 
helen_l said:
Just want to say thanks for all the help. Had a brilliant time in London. Went to a few exhibitions, saw The Producers and did some general sight-seeing!! But the highlight of my trip...Portobello. Is fantastic! Bought some really nice dresses, bags and jewellery. Really liked Carnaby street as well as thats the type of shopping I'm most used to! Looking forward to my next trip over already!
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Glad you had fun Helen :D I do think London Town is the best city for shopping, I shop at least 3x a week :oops: :lol: and I could never get bored of it/am always finding new things etc ;)
 
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