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If you could name one shop that is your spiritual shopping home, what would it be?

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Caz10 · 02/07/2009 21:25

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...

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Original poster
Caz10 · 02/07/2009 21:59

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

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hf128219 · 02/07/2009 22:01

Caz - I am a fellow jock!

MiniMarmite · 02/07/2009 22:02

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.

Original poster
Caz10 · 02/07/2009 22:06

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.

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Overmydeadbody · 02/07/2009 22:07

window shoppers i meant

CherryChoc · 02/07/2009 22:09

H&M (I'm 21)

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

diedandgonetodevon · 02/07/2009 22:10

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

moondog · 02/07/2009 22:11

Country Casuals

I'm 78 but pass for mid 50s.

SemperEadem · 02/07/2009 22:11

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

pinkmagic1 · 02/07/2009 22:13

Monsoon, I'm 30 and a size 16.

hf128219 · 02/07/2009 22:14

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

muffle · 02/07/2009 22:16

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

Overmydeadbody · 02/07/2009 22:16

that's wahat you think moondog

BodenGroupie · 02/07/2009 22:17

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.

snickersnack · 02/07/2009 22:18
  1. 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.
DollyPardonme · 02/07/2009 22:19

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

janeite · 02/07/2009 22:20

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.

janeite · 02/07/2009 22:21
  1. Size 12. Petite but norked, which makes things much harder imho.
missmelly · 02/07/2009 22:23

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

PutDown · 02/07/2009 22:25

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.

tvfriend · 02/07/2009 22:27

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...)

cherryblossoms · 02/07/2009 22:36

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.

Starbear · 02/07/2009 22:41

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,

noddyholder · 02/07/2009 22:44

harvey nicholls or heals.

EllieorOllie · 02/07/2009 23:07

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.