80s/90s shops

[wetasstenalady]

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

Snob And etam

Nefertiti was big in South Wales

Stolen from Ivor (northern shop)

I once bought a naf naf t shirt in France and everyone thought mine was the fake as the rest had naf co64 ones

Miss selfridge

Shopped in Richards a lot as I was tiny and they did petites

A shop called good habit in Swansea which was full of gringo clothing and grungy hippy clothes

@Woahisme

Tommy Ball's for school shoes.

I remember Tradex stores if anyone else does, they were ace around Christmas time. Randomly just remembered Texas home stores and Focus DIY superstore.

Aww I went to tommy balls in rawtenstall

Also remember getting reeboks seconds somewhere near bury

Fosters - my dad got his clothes from there 🕺

And finefair/ finefayre ? Supermarket

@DianaT1969

Knickerbox Does anyone in London remember going to Fonthill Road on a Saturday? Camden Market for button down tops from the army surplus stores.

I still have a pair of knickerbockers pants That are still going strong

We had bejam (before Iceland)
Safeway
Kwik save
National milk bar cafes

Also sweater shop
The sock shop
I have a really vivid memory of going to the BOY London store in London in Sloane Square and wanting to live my best Madonna life.
We also went to peter jones (precursor to John Lewis)
Also we went to the Vivienne Westwood shop on kings rd and watching the punks in the late 90s

I had sweat boots and buffalos like Mel b! 😂

Brummie here! Oh the Midland Ed! That's what my parents called it, it was years before I discovered what the Ed meant!

And Birmingham cafés... highlights for me were BHS and Kardomah on Colmore Row.

Trueform and Manfield shoe shops, loved them.

@Madhairday do you remember the little shops in the old bullring that sold fire hazard clothes for a fiver a piece? Think one was called hypnotic

I am so pleased people remember Oasis market in Birmingham!

Saturday morning as follows-50 bus into Birmingham, it stopped by the clock. Or the train to Moor St.
Into Reddingtons Rare Records then off to the Bull ring where all the Duran Duran badges were sold.
Then Oasis market to get that one off piece of clothing nobody else would have. Then into Virgin to listen to stuff on headphones and maybe a Wimpy at some point.
That may be a mix of a lot of years of the 80s but it was before the Pallasades came along and they messed with Broad St and knocked the Rum Runner down etc. Happy days.

Oh and any meeting up would be at the clock opposite M&S.

Paco jumpers, anyone?

@Buttybach was Tommy Ball's a northern thing? We had one in Preston

@wetasstenalady yes! I remember those and these really crowded shops full of what are now obviously knock off goods all piled up in huge messy piles, a.fire hazard in themselves.
I remember Broad Street before gentrification too, all those warehouses with shattered windows.
Do you remember the subway bit next to Rackhams which had little stalls in it selling badges and cheap wrapping paper and loads of other things?
Birmingham was such a (slightly dodgy) treasure trove in the 80s.

Birmingham was such a (slightly dodgy) treasure trove in the 80s.

It really was. I went back for a quick trip last year and it really doesn't have the same appeal any more, plus I am old.

have all the 7 eleven shops around London gone?

West one

@Madhairday yes I loved getting my wrapping paper from there!

@DennisWaterman

I'll have a trip to Mark One.

Later to be rebranded MK One.

Mark One and Lemonjuice

@Bythehairywartsonmywitchychin

I’ll add coppernob, I loved their clothes and was gutted when they closed.

Gifi Fields who owns Coppernob now owns Scarlett and Jo label. I used to work in River Island head office and he was one of our suppliers. Chelsea Girl became River Island but they kept the last shop in the Bullring as CG and sent all the unsold sale stock there.

@Milomonster

Red or Dead

Loved Red or Dead so much I did work experience at their Wembley office and their PR in Soho. Just after the space baby collection.

I loved the Pier! My Mum bought me some gorgeous pasta bowls from there that I had coveted for years. But my ex was a clumsy fucker and broke them all :(

I remember Punky Fish, I saved up for months to buy a hoody. I probably still have it
And we had a shop called Red Tomato, or Blue Tomatoes or something. I think they sold stationery, or knick-knacks. I can't remember but I know I loved it

Saxone, Lilley and Skinner.
Chelsea Girl’s Charlotte Halton range.
Dolcis.
Ravel - I loved their shoes.
Principles.

@TheFormerPorpentinaScamander

I loved the Pier! My Mum bought me some gorgeous pasta bowls from there that I had coveted for years. But my ex was a clumsy fucker and broke them all :(

I remember Punky Fish, I saved up for months to buy a hoody. I probably still have it
And we had a shop called Red Tomato, or Blue Tomatoes or something. I think they sold stationery, or knick-knacks. I can't remember but I know I loved it

Blue Tomato - we had one of those in the late 90s/2000s. Home Accessories and the like, I love my snowman Christmas card holders from there! (Not to be confused with blue banana which is an emo/scene clothing store).

Someone mentioned a shop like sweater shop - could it have been Dash? Sort of middle class Sweater Shop? Sweatshirts to wear over your princess Di pie crust collar blouses?