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Shops and Hobbies in Bristol, Bristol*

Bristol, Bristol Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• Charity shops only... They are many and varied.
• Allure on Regent street in Clifton Village is fantastic. Clothes for women, really high fash but brilliant stuff. Think Selfridges in London but cheaper and nicer shopping experience. Paul & Joe, Diesel Style Lab etc. Woman who owns it is friendly too.
• freak boutique at the bottom picton street has good cheap vintage and second hand clothes
• BS8, Park Street. Expensive but lots of 'alternative' clothing and cool 50's style skirts, and funky bags. Legends, Broadmead. Skateboarding place upstairs. Great clothes for guys and gals. H&M.
• Gloucester Road or the smelly Broadmead. H and M is cool I guess.
• 2004: Loads down Park Street, including BS8, DNA, but these are expensive. Try StNicholas Market for a ramdom collection of stuff, also Park Row for the shops that don't fit anywhere else. Clifton Village has the really posh and expensive shops. Gloucester Rd also has a good variety, some a couple of vintage clothes shops are there. For high street stuff, the Galleries, Broadmead and the dreaded Mall. NB: avoid the Mall at Christmas. just don't do it.
• Park Street - dont go to the Mall its horrible
• There is a shop which begins with M on park street - can anyone tell me the full name??
• For the best clothes shops -AVOID Cribbs Causeway like the plague.... chain stores = bad clothes. Avoid Sport Soccer in Broadmead - undoubtedly home to the rudest staff I have EVER encountered in a shop..... even got told to "f*ck off" there recently!!!
• Cooshti - where else?
• guddun's = DNA, BS8, 50/50, westworld, alterior
• bs8 xpensive but ok
• Bah... 50:50 for jeans, other than that.. go to london!
• Quicksilver If u save for ten years! TK-Maxx - Thank god for TK-maxx good clothes at a cheap price I can finally afford to get some new trousers!
• Debemhams is the best there is .The girls there are great Evans and Elvi are fab the girls are lovely so nice and helpful and the makeup counter girls are great too
• alterior (park street), westworld (park street), da regular store (college green), charity shops on gloucester road
• Alterior - Park Street top T shirts, trainers, sweats and art by Banksy etc
• Uncle Sam's - did someone say RETRO!
• Gloucester Road best for shopping - but you need a day! loads of charities and a fair few second hand/retro shops.
• Cooshti-Park Street Steve friendly guy ,top clobber,large designer range Diesel etc. Sharkbite-Park Row Owned by Cheeky v friendly guy even if he looks like he's been on the piss and just got up particularly on saturdays.This is because hes been propping up the bar in Pona's AGAIN.! Alterior-Park Street Dave top bloke ,sound selection of T's and trainers
• The Galleries or Bentalls in The Horsefair, but be quick, they are closing down.
• BS8, park street, is always good if ya like the more interesting look.
• BS8 - Cheap, funky, good quality and on park street
• john anthony
• Westworld 50/50 Skateboard supplies DNA
• Shark Bite, PArk St, great for surfers and all those wannabe quiksilver wearers too
• The places for clothes are the splendid second hand shops halfway up Queen's Road, those on Cotham Hill (off Queen's Road) and in Regent Street in Clifton. A cut above is the second-hand Naff Clothing Shop on Cotham Hill, a place with a strict 'eclectic only' policy and wonderfully inconsistent pricing policy that ranges from the silly bargain to the outrageous. Plus the most bizarre waistcoats in the West Country, items so unlikely that one wonders how they exist.

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• BADGES! if you're into badges, then funkybadges.com has a great range of exclusive designs, including GRAFFITI pieces from all over the world. Bristol based, they have an online store at http://www.funkybadges.com so get with it!!
• New gallery/shop Soma in Clifton Arcade on Boyces Ave in Clifton Village. Sells illustration and art prints by leading illustrators to recent graduates. Sells ceramics textiles and fab jewellery as well. Great for individual gifts as well as for treating yourself.
• Great new shops/galleries in Boyce's Arcade in Clifton Village, selling jewellery, art, ceramics, kitsch, etc. Also BiHand in St Georges Rd. (round the corner from the bottom of Jacobs Wells Rd.)has beautiful, trendy stuff.
• Here Shop and gallery 108 Stokes Croft. Or Arnolfini when it opens again.
• 2004: The Guild on Park street. The Arnolfini is a modern art gallery by the docks, with a good art book shop in it. Also keep an eye out for graffiti by Banksy around Bristol. there's a large piece by him on Gloucester Rd on the side of a building.
• Arnolfini has some very odd modern art going on.
• check out some of the stalls outside st nick's market on fridays and saturdays
• Arnolfini, Watershed, Spike Island, Clifton Village
• Suburbia - Clifton Village - great for classy unusual gifts and stuff for around the home
• The Arnolfifni Center on the dockside
• Heaven on Earth is now situated on Kingdown Parade in Kingsdown
• Bristol Guild (Park St) - extensive and expensive range of arts, craft etc plus quite a good foodie bit.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• whsmiths
• M.O.S MAGS WITH THE FREE CD ARE WELL WORTH A LOOK OF ALL YOU CLUBBERS .
• Area 51 on Gloucester Rd is probably the best spot for comics since Forever People closed.
• Vale news, just for the staff!
• Debenhams - they're a good laugh
• Forever People is now sadly extinct. There's a Forbidden Planet in Broadmead, but the the staff eat at the counter and get all the comics greasy! ;-(=
• Forever People - a massive amount of stock crammed into 2 floors, on Park street.

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