Loads of Clothes

Shopping is one experience no woman should ever deny herself--especially in London. And if you are in the mood to indulge Oxford Street is teeming with stores that fancy your credit card. Of course, most of my shopping has been window shopping because as much as I enjoy the art of fashion, I also need enough money to eat.

With a student budget though, I've been able to shop at stores such as PRIMARK that are cheap for the Londoners (which means reasonable for us), but is still trendy. Actually, PRIMARK is the Forever 21 of London, but much more mental (as they say). It's actually the place where everyone and their mate is buying a top. The queue to try on the clothes takes and hour, if not more, because girls are literally lined up from the lingerie section (where the fitting rooms are) out to the regular apparel section. And better yet, the queue to buy the clothes is something from the DMV. You are actually called up by an automated voice when a cash register is free such as ("till number 4, please"). If you don't believe me check out the pics: Besides PRIMARK, there is also Marks & Spencer, Selfridges, and H&M to name a few.

The other most popular clothing store for females, however, is TOP SHOP. This is where Kate Moss recently opened up her clothing line--apparently, there was a queue out the door and around the corner for its opening--go figure! Johanna and I had the privilege of going in and checking it out last night. There was definitely a quality difference--much more cute tops, shoes, and accessories than PRIMARK with varying price ranges. No sales though until July 5th so you know who will be shopping on that day!


Words of the day: pants (British)=men's underwear (American); knickers=women's underwear; trousers=pants; jumper=sweater; tights=pantyhose; etc.