White stuff - they do really good sales. My favourite ever denim skirt cost £20 from there. I love White stuff - they def know what suits women older than teenagers...

Joseph and Maxmara. I'm 36 and size 8. Unfortunately I will be unemployed very soon, so will have to reassess . Actually I have more fun buying clothes for my kids though.

Reassuring to hear that most people are high street - I need to just get out there a bit more often i think!!

overmydeadbody - cult clothing for me too - although not so much these days, have been shopping there since i was 17 - now 36!!!! Also, Zara, topshop, gap and french connection

French connection for clothing, john Lewis for everything else.

I'm 27.

H&M and New Look. Occasionally Topshop and Coast. I'm 23.

Saying that I did nearly buy a dress in Harvey Nichols yesterday but I have nowhere to wear it.

Liberty.
I get some calming Breakfast at Tiffany's thing going on when I walk in there. The man who has been there for ages knows me (a first for me) and there are hardly any people.
happy days

Age......37.
Shops....Monsoon, Debenhams and any off license

My age is a secret but I am feel old.

Household / curtains etc - John Lewis
Clothes - a 'country' clothing store (think tweed) I know, but you did say 'spiritual'
Food - M&S

opp meant to add 30yo now. Still getting used to saying that

Abrican fabric shop - i make a lot of mine so i can get the exact fit i want.

<whispers necessities and cant be arse to make items are primark or with weekly shop but not an idea of heaven>

H & M cheap but stylish and can find some alternative looking things in there. I am 29 btw.

"this" and actually it was from (No 1 spiritual home)Peter Jones rather than John Lewis

Peter Jones

I'd love to say Armani or Chanel but it's probably the bit of the John Lewis basement that sells children's lunchboxes. Saddo.

Ooh, show us tv - bet I've already got it too...

and I'm nearly 40 . (And agree- lots of White Stuff is nice at the moment- bought a dress there (well- in John Lewis)the other day although am thinking it might be 'age inappropriate' )

I used to love Reiss, when I was thinner , although actually I have a pre babies Reiss skirt on today

I'm 42 and White Stuff is mine, mine all MINE!!!!!

Sorry, I'm 32.

Reiss. I heart Reiss.

But more realistically from a budgetary point of view, Zara.

We have a new Top Shop in town (oh-the excitement). They had 80s style bodies (ie like baby ones) in a delightful floral pattern in there today. At least I had the decency to wear plain coloured ones in 1989. (I shudder to think of the VPL that I must have had

TK Maxx. My mother's nickname is Bar Code Cancelled and I was raised to love a bargain, but I like beautiful clothes which last. TK Maxx has made my life complete

Marks and Spencer I'm 35

It was River Island that actually terrified me the most yesterday! 1st shop I went into, after months away, and it was like walking into some bizarro timeslip...I have never felt so out of place and confused!

River Island but not at the moment and mabe never again They have embraced the eightees- unfortunately.

Ikea. If I had the place to myself.

another vote for John Lewis, and House of Fraser in Manchester. Don't often get to the latter though, or have the money!!
Also like some Jack Wills but only on eBay. Actually, eBay is probably my fave shop atm...
I am 41 btw.

I'm 40 and I'd say Jigsaw and Topshop. If I had loads of spare cash then Liberty would be my favourite place - and the rose jam in the café that you get with a cream tea is divine. Sorry, not strictly relevant.

John Lewis (and Debenhams too) mainly because they have a mix of labels including some young and funky ones, and you can get haberdashery in the same visit!

Fenwicks. <Sigh>

I'm 39.

arse end of nowhere shopping means I have no spiritual home shopping wise - Gap disappeared sadly, but I do like h&m, Topshop, Monsoon and sometimes dorothy perkins and new look - I wouldn't say I am blessed with a stylish wardrobe.

I am always looking at clothes online too.

Shoe shopping is generally much more fun than clothes shopping. I am 36 - what kind of clothes are you looking for Caz?

i absolutely love joules.
and crew. and jack wills. obviously i can't afford jack wills, but a girl can dream...
limited collection and autograph weekend at m&s also good.
am 27 and a mum of two, and have started to feel a bit odd in the teeny-bopper shops too.

harvey nicholls or heals.

John Lewis in real life. I want to work there 10am -2pm and give up my well paid but really depressing public service job. I want to be nice & helpful to nice people like me. If I won the lottery it would be Selfridges personal shopper for me,

Topshop - I have so many clothes from TS and I know that i can always find something I like in there!

Also M & S - particularly the Limited Collection.

Also have surprising amounts from Toast, Noa Noa and Comptoir de Cotonniers.

The place I like to wander through, enblissed, is Liberty. If heaven were a shop, it would be Liberty.

I am 43.

John Lewis (or more specifically Peter Jones- which makes me sound sloaney and I'm not...)
Banana Republic and Gap (although I think I still see them like they were in the 90s-bit ttrendy now )
Do love a bit of TK Maxx too...
M&S used to be in the days I wore suits (also the 1990s...)

Boutique in Ashbourne called Sacs.
Sells Noa Noa,White Stuff,Nougat,Great Plains,Sandwich etc.
Can never resist a purchase I am afraid..
oh,am 41.

Selfridges!! it's my happy place
love love love it there

I buy the odd bit from Primark, but more often than not it gets returned. Am also a committed Diesel girl - am 34

39. Size 12. Petite but norked, which makes things much harder imho.

When I was 16 it was a place called Gutz in Derby. You can imagine the kind of things it sold but I thought I'd died and gone to Heaven whenever I went in there.

Now - I have no idea. I suspect that I have leanings towards Liberty in general, plus Whistles and Vivienne Westwood in particular but a budget that its more M&S and Gap sale.

Liberty (in my dreams and for accessories, general stuff)

East but I have a great dress from there

Monsoon

I am 47 and about an 18

35. I go to John Lewis, and buy things from the concessions. That said, I bought 2 very lovely dresses in M&S today. And I like Gap.

Zara (in spite of my name) and I'm 46. Only shop I can go in and guarantee I'll find something I love (though it won't necessarily fit).

Having said that, went to Bicester Shopping Village recently and that's my new spiritual home.

that's wahat you think moondog

Oh I forgot to say my age with my Jigsaw and White stuff post - 39.

Caz - have been away 10 years (but visit regularly). Glasgow is great for shopping! You have no excuse - no matter what your budget!

Monsoon, I'm 30 and a size 16.

River Island (am 30) but recently have started to feel a leetle bit old with all of their neon tops & shorts

Fantasy shop? - Reiss - yes I know it is not ridiculously expensive but I can't afford anything in there at the mo

Country Casuals

I'm 78 but pass for mid 50s.

If we're talking high street then Crew Clothing. I'm 28

H&M (I'm 21)

So happy that they have opened one near me as they are not too expensive either.

window shoppers i meant

So have you moved, or was that a fantasy list?! I am at the stage now where these places would intimidate me, how sad is that.

Monsoon - largely on account of there being one I can walk to which has a buggy-sized changing room (but I did shop there pre-baby too but not ALL the time)

I'm 34.

Caz - I am a fellow jock!

What is Joe Browns? [out of touch emocion..] Off to google...

Oh and I am 39, (40) in August wooohoooo!!!!

I was going to say the Apple Store till I read your replies and realised that I'd be typing this on a gleaming MacBook Pro but stark nekkid

JOE BROWNS..JOE BROWNS...JOE BROWNS,

and charity shops,

and JOE BROWNS

OMDB - Pre-kids: loaded, now: window shopper!

straight-up window shopper, OMDB. i live in the back of beyond. john lewis is a bit of a haul from here.

straight-up window shopper, OMDB. i live in the back of beyond. john lewis is a bit of a haul from here.

OMDB - window shopper for sure! apart from charity shops.

Gosh, you lot are all either loaded or just windown shoppers

If I had the money I would shop at White Stuff and Cult clothing, with the odd bit of Jack Wills thrown in too.

Monsoon
Debenhams on account of being able to buy lots of things from different shops without leaving the store.
Some of the surf shops.
Charity shops.

Aah my shopping experience in arse-end-of-nowhere, Scotland, is clearly difference from yours hf128219!

Field and Treck or Decathlon

I know what you mean, I'm a bit stuck with this. It used to be Jigsaw but they have changed and have a lot of poncy, ugly stuff now. I do like going to White Stuff though I actually like very little of what they have, but there are often one or two things I love.

John Lewis is definitely my shopping home for non-clothing stuff though. The lovely crockery, the cosmetics bit, fabrics and crafts, kids' stuff, kitchen and camping stuff, garden stuff... I could quite happily actually live there.

Love Liberty, Selfridges, Fenwick, Harrods.
And the whole of Bond Street. And Primark.
I am 39 in a couple of weeks time.

Ooh Zara, now I think I could feel at home there...

Zara.

Liberty. I always feel at home in Liberty with the creaky wooden floors and mishmash of labels. It's been a while since I was there.....

Banana republic

And The Gap.

John Lewis

eBay.

I don't know if it's still there but it was in Swanage, called Rainbow's End. Don't know if I'll ever get back there either.

John Lewis.

John Lewis. Which is so damn sad but I always end up in there. I blame my mother.

(Am 36 and not very stylish)

Monsoon. Not sure if this is a good thing!

I like patterns and colour so works for me. Also the shop assistants are not all 19 and too cool for school.

I am 36 - and a size 14 BTW ( I suspect size is as important to this question as age)

Definitely Primark. I'm 32 and I do buy one off things in 'quality' shops, but I stock up at Primark and always feel a pang of excitement when I go into a Primark store...

Primark [cheap and nasty emoticon]

And if I may be so cheeky, can you tell me how old you are?!

I went shopping today for the 1st time in months if not years, and felt totally out of place! Felt old in Top Shop and River Island, couldn't face being too cheap and nasty in Primark/New Look (although I did pick a few things up there ) and felt a bit depressed when I felt mildly more at home in Next...

I know you need to pick up things from different places, but there is something comforting about knowing that you will generally always find something in a certain shop.

i am 33 btw and no longer know where I shop...