80s/90s shops

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Feeling a bit nostalgic today I will start- every good shopping trip would involve a visit to Bay Trading and Snob

Morgan
Karen Millan

Richard Shops

Dolcis for shoes
Ravel for shoes
Morgan - everyone had the bags
Naf Naf

Richard Shops
Clockhouse at C&A

Nearest big city was Birmingham so Oasis market which was brilliant.

Dolcis! Oh my god, I miss Dolcis.

And Freeman, Hardy Willis

@purpledagger I'd forgotten about Naf Naf until just now.

Also who could forget C&A!

Do you remember those trousers they sold in Bay Trading? Flared, hipster type things with 4 big silver buttons down the front and a fake pocket on either side with another big silver button. Loads of different colours. They sold them for about 20 years.

Does anyone remember the State of Independence?

Oooh, and Ton Sur Ton. What was all that about? It doesn't even make sense.

Sailsbury's for bags

... gosh, haven't a lot of chains closed down in the last 20-30 years?

@MarchionessofActon our local market had a stall that literally only sold ‘posh’ carrier bags. Seems mental now.

Oooh just remembered. Paris. The shoe shop.

And I miss the body shop as it was.

@BasinHaircut OMG, look at all these "vintage" plastic bags! www.ebay.co.uk/b/Vintage-Plastic-Bag-in-Other-Advertising-Collectables/35/bn_7022875070

Do you know what, if it was possible to go back 20-25 years and have a wander round all these shops it would be the best thing ever. Especially at this time of year, in the body shop looking at the dewberry gift sets. Lush mate.

Pied A Terre shoe shops. They used to have a Karen Millen concession in them before she opened her own shops,

Baisin really?! That’s crazy to imagine now

Loads of Bay Trading clothes on Ebay! How cool! www.ebay.co.uk/b/Vintage-Plastic-Bag-in-Other-Advertising-Collectables/35/bn_7022875070

Have to agree, Body Shop dewberry products were basically the smell of the 90s.

@tectonicplates ha ha brilliant.

I can imagine useful for props departments for tv/film production but who else would buy this stuff? I don’t suppose today’s 15 year olds are on the look out for vintage Woolworths bags for thier PE kits

I honestly don't know. I thought of TV and film production too, but apart from that who the heck would buy this stuff?

[quote tectonicplates]@BasinHaircut OMG, look at all these "vintage" plastic bags! www.ebay.co.uk/b/Vintage-Plastic-Bag-in-Other-Advertising-Collectables/35/bn_7022875070[/quote]
I have loads of old bags. I used to keep them for bin liners but obviously shopped more than I threw stuff away.

Barratts Shoes. Their Comme il Fait range fitted my feet perfectly.

You should probably put them on Ebay. You'd make a fortune

Saying that, a few years ago DH’s granny sent us round a bread pudding that she’d made wrapped in a carrier bag.

Said carrier bag was from a local shop (don’t think it was a chain, but anyone who happens to be from Dagenham would remember Pollards) which closed down decades before. I did from a bit of an emotional attachment to that bag for a while I will admit.

Does anyone remember the State of Independence?

I do! That was my favourite shop as a young teen. I was constantly in there buying terrible jewellery. Loved it.