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Favourite shops, online and off

TheCatWoman

I thought I'd start a thread where we can list our favourite places to buy simple things or things that should be simple and use it as a sort of reference guide.

My favourites for shoes, are moshulu, a small firm in Devon that make beautiful shoes for British shaped feet, they're a bit expensive, but they last a long time so are worth it. The other place I sometimes get shoes from is Hotter, mostly I get my walking boots from them as their shoes have gone a bit aggy, the boots are good as the womens sizes go up to an 8, they do wide fit too.

One of the shops I sometimes use for clothes is Laganlook.co.uk, mostly for tops as their trousers are about 3 or 4 inches to short for me

If I wanted wool for knitting or anything else I'd go to wool couture, pure wool and lovely colours, although they seem to do more crafty stuff than wool for clothes making, it's expensive, but lovely, another British company.

For bedding I'm a TKMAXXX girl, good quality cotton sheets, pillow slips and duvet covers at bargain prices, I have some pillow slips from them that are 100% cotton with a 500 thread count, they're so soft, they were only £7:99 a pair.

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  • Any sort of antique shop or bookshop, a shop selling antique books would probably be the acme of shops for me.

  • in reply to Martin

    I miss old fashioned junk shops where you could wander round and pick up random bits of china, glassware and furniture, the nearest I can find to it now is the local auction house when they have a general household sale, but even then it's a faff as you can't just buy something.

    I used to love going to Oxbow books in Oxford, it was a real Terry Pratchet library sort of book shop, you'd go up stairs that lead nowhere and find seemingly hidden rooms. I think Martin would of loved it. 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Sounds amazing. There used to be a secondhand bookshop occupying what were originally two large houses in an old terrace surrounded by the campus where I worked. It was wonderful, now the whole row are university offices. Luckily, there are two warehouse-sized antique shops about 45 minutes walk from where I live. I have bought things from a Victorian inkpot up to a small Edwardian roll-top desk. The desk is solid oak and to get anything modern of as as good quality it would have cost at least three times what I paid for it (and I found a George V postage stamp stuck in one of the pigeon holes).

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Sounds amazing. There used to be a secondhand bookshop occupying what were originally two large houses in an old terrace surrounded by the campus where I worked. It was wonderful, now the whole row are university offices. Luckily, there are two warehouse-sized antique shops about 45 minutes walk from where I live. I have bought things from a Victorian inkpot up to a small Edwardian roll-top desk. The desk is solid oak and to get anything modern of as as good quality it would have cost at least three times what I paid for it (and I found a George V postage stamp stuck in one of the pigeon holes).

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