Do you remember RazzleDazzle?

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I used to come into town every Saturday for a drama class (pretentious? moi?) and I'd go to RazzleDazzle where Greggs is now on Buchanan Street at the lane to Queen Street. Well, the modern day equivalent has opened in Buchanan galleries. Instead of three pairs of earrings for a pound, it's three pairs for a tenner. (Inflation!)

I'll never forget the thrill of a RazzleDazzle haul.

I'm sure there was one in Dundee at one point

It's the one under the 'heilan' mans umbrella' I remember (near central station argyle street. What every woman wants was there too )

I had fabulous stuff from there in the 80's

Whateverys.

Not sure if I'm remembering right but was there a Razzle Dazzle pop up shop at the Glasgow Garden Festival? Vague memory of dark sunglasses purchased there that every under 16 was wearing!

I remember Razzle Dazzle too AND the Garden Festival glasses everyone was wearing too. What was the clothes shop on Argyll Street that had the clothes rotating on like a hanging conveyor belt?

Yep there was one on Princes Street in Edinburgh. The lighting was bad though.

Stoorie was that Internacionale? Had Schuh upstairs? Remember Razzle Dazzle changed to HMV I think? On two floors? Great place for a mood ring or dummy.

What about Hoi Polloi?

The one in Edinburgh changed to Internacionale. I got a black baggy silk blouse with a gold print on it with my first ever wages (£8 for 8 hours of graft on the Pancake Place on Shandwick Place). My mum pounced on it, wore it out that night then shrunk it in the wash.

Real tears may have been cried readers, real tears.

I loved Razzle Dazzle. They were always putting more animals on dangly earrings than you ever dared dream possible. And I got a properly amazing silver dummy there that was just like the girl on that Take That video had. What a time to be alive!

Loved it but my mum wouldn't let me buy anything there...insisted on only silver or gold stemmed earrings (!) I remember in one act of defiance buying a pair of massive crystal dangly earrings that were bunches of grapes. Pat Butcher would have been proud! Wore them once and got horrible infections in both my lobes...turns out I was allergic to non precious metal and here was me thinking my mum was just being mean . Kept the earrings though...Still loved them!

Awe! Edinburgh razzle dazzle- escalator in the front window? Dundee definitely had an international, in murraygate. Not sure if it had been a razzle dazzle first. Or was it that downstairs, and the home wear/ gift stuff upstairs? Circa 1993.

Oh God yes. And What Every Woman Wants. They used to sell cheap and tacky clothes that make primark look like Chanel odd numbered sized clothes (size 11 jeans, anyone?).

Gosh- I would love odd sized clothes!

Dundee definitely had an international, in murraygate

Yes I used to waste a lot of my pocket money on tacky crap from the upstairs bit. I still have an inflatable alien I got there circa 1996 .

Inflatable alien! That's made it over 20years! Did that later become "Au natural" ?

He did have a partner who sadly sprang a leak .

Yes Au Naturel, that was what the upstairs bit was called.

The original sparkly, twiggy shit came from Au Naturel.
I think I remember RazzleDazzle in Dundee, probably spent Satudays mooching in it, Chelsea Girl and Brahms and Lizst.

Brahms and Liszt in the old overgate! I'd forgotten. Nice stationary in there.

Definitely one in Edinburgh too. Remember it as being similar to Whatties.(what everyone wants)

My other favourite childhood shop was Sandpiper in Rose St where you could buy all sorts of crap. Also Helios Fountain in the Grassmarket.

It's on posts like this I soooooo wish MN had a like button! Loved RazzleDazzle and Whateveries! Many a purchase for youth club and school discos was made in both places - you could have "papped peas" through the material of each and every item as my mammy told me when I came home and showed her my purchases! 😃

Oh, man, I LOVED Razzle Dazzle! When a special occasion rolled around and we'd all get the bus in from Rural Nowhereseville, I'd make a beeline for there. Happy days. What treasures you would find!