Question on London Shopping
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Question on London Shopping
Quick question... I am going to London for a week and would like to do some shopping...one of my favorite past times. Being a plus size woman, I would like to know what stores would be best to check out for plus sizes...or do the major stores (Harrods, Harvey Nichols, etc) have a good inventory of clothing...thanks!<BR><BR>
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Harrod's does have a department though it's similar to Bloomingdale's or any other major NY dept. store selection.<BR>Harvey Nichs got rid of their department last year, but Marks and Spencer has a broad range and there is a shop on Oxford St-can't remember the name, but it's the first half of Oxford St. from Marble Arch, near John Lewis and a Monsoon store.<BR><BR>
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One store that I try and get to for a treat when I go to London is called Base - it's at 55 Monmouth Street, near Covent Garden. (they have a web site: http://www.base-fashions.co.uk)<BR><BR>They're a little bit pricy (but no worse than Harrods), hence the "treat" part of it - I would come home with everything in the store, if I could!<BR><BR>Another place that looks interesting, but which I've never gotten to, is called "1647", allegedly, I think, for the 47% of all women who are size 16 or larger! It's a block or two north of Oxford Circus, on a side street. Their web site is http://www.sixteen47.com.
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Ann Harvey makes good quality, stylish, moderately priced plus size clothes. Marina Rinaldi makes very good quality, stylish, more expensive plus size clothes. If you're only moderately "plus"--say a UK size 16 to 20, Alexxon also has some plus sizes, but be careful about quality--some of it is very good, some not so.<BR>
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1647 Ltd. <BR>69 Gloucester Avenue <BR>London NW1 8LD <BR>0171 722 1647 <BR>0171 483 0733 <BR>Catalogue 1 pound. <BR>Open 10-6, Mon-Sat. <BR>Owned by Dawn French, the comedy writing partner of Jennifer Saunders, she co-wrote Absolutedly Fabulous. She's a champion for larger women.<BR><BR>Base <BR>55 Monmouth Street, <BR>Covent Garden <BR>London WC2H 9DG <BR>tel. 0171 240 8914 <BR>Small shop with expensive clothing, but not <BR>just for the "middle-aged" look .<BR><BR>Beige <BR>5 Hoop Lane, <BR>London <BR>NW11 8JR <BR>tel. 0181 4551122 <BR>small shop, expensive.<BR><BR>Etam Plus <BR>Chain: branches within Etam shops. <BR>Jubilee House, 197-213 Oxford Street, <BR>London W1 tel. 0171 493 4004 <BR>sizes 16-24 .<BR><BR>Evans <BR>Chain. Web page at http://www.evans.ltd.uk/ <BR>stocks cheap clothing size 16-32. <BR>Lots of casuals, some office-wear, some glamorous <BR>things around Christmas. Also stocks tights and swimsuits. <BR><BR>House of Fraser (upmarket department store chain)<BR>Schneberger range <BR>within D.H.Evans, Oxford Street, London <BR>within Dickins and Jones, Regent .<BR><BR>Street, London<BR><BR>Ken Smith Designs, <BR>6 Charlotte Place, <BR>London W1P 1AQ <BR>tel. 0171 631 3341 <BR>sizes 16 to 30+ coasts, dresses, separates <BR>and evening wear. also make-to-measure<BR><BR>Ronnie's <BR>25 Margaret Street, <BR>London <BR>W1N 8LE <BR>tel. 0171 436 9967 <BR>mix & match day wear, sizes 14-32 <BR>they claim to have the lowest prices in the West End <BR>with blouses 9 to 20 pounds, skirts 7 to 15 pounds.<BR><BR>You can probably tell that I stole all this off a website. Remember that British sizing is different to US. I think it's something like a US size 8 is a UK size 12.
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Size conversions:<BR><BR>http://www.realcurvy.com/sizing.htm
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faith, <BR>sorry but i'm going to hijack your thread for a moment in the interest of keeping the clothes/shopping threads to a minimum to ask when in the month of Jan do the stores throw their sales? Is it usually right after the new year or later in the month?
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Kate - great list, thank you! Just a note: from their web site, the 1647 store seems to have moved from the Gloucester Avenue site - the new address is at 41 Great Castle Street, north of Oxford Circus (At least, I know that they have a store there, because I've seen it - I've just never managed to get there during opening hours! )<BR><BR>And Kim - why would anyone want to keep clothes/shopping threads to a minimum? What a silly idea! -) )
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Hi, Faith -<BR><BR>As an interested party -) ), I also looked up "Beige", or at least the address. Hoop Lane seems to be near the Golders Green tube station (which is consistent with the NW11 postal code).<BR><BR>A really good site for finding addresses on a map of London is: <BR><BR>http://www.streetmap.co.uk/